Mallory Rubin

That just felt to me like really representative of the confidence that this show has and its intention.

Like there's a version of it where Faith returns and Buffy and Faith are like, we really let things get out of hand.

Let's find a way to move past this.

And like maybe in the future of their shared story, that will happen and they would reconcile.

I think that would be

Very interesting if there's a path to that.

But the fact that it wasn't neat and tidy and easy, like, Faith comes back and she wants revenge.

And she has been tormented in her dreams by, you know, drops of blood on the floor and then looking down and there's a knife in the gut, right?

So, like, you know, the snake on the picnic blanket with the mayor, like...

I thought that Faith watching the tape from the mayor was, even though he was saying things, it was a great return to the mayor experience where he was saying things that are, like, if you stop and pause and think about them and break them down, so fucked up.

Like, making Faith think that she has no place in the world without him.

But also, I was like, I'm, like, really affected by what I'm watching.

Um, so often when we're watching these episodes, because, well, you've seen them a million times and I'm watching them for the first time.

And then the second time I'm texting you a lot of screenshots of my TV or just a lot of pictures of my TV.

Um, very frequently they're pictures of Giles, but other things as well.

And so you typically know because of the text I've sent you where I am in the season, um,

And I sent you some stuff.

I was sending you many things from the Faith episodes.

And then I sent you something from where the wild things are.

And you were like, you didn't text me about the Jonathan episode.