Episode 55: S3E21&22 Graduation Day
October 3rd, 2011 by bthomas
The gang prepares for graduation which Willow views with gleeful reminiscent excitement, Xander fears, and Buffy sees as pointless. Meanwhile Mayor Wilkins is preparing for the Ascension and dispatches Faith to kill a local geology professor who we later learn may have discovered the body of a very old, very large demon. Buffy goes to Angel to investigate the dead professor some more but Faith shoots him with a poisoned arrow which slowly begins to kill him. Wesley tells Buffy the Watcher’s Council refuses to help Angel because he is a vampire. Buffy promptly quits the council dismissing Wesley’s authority once and for all.
Podcast Length: 42:52
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It’s time to think about the future and Willow has her pick of colleges while Xander decides to take a summer road trip. Buffy, resigned to the fact that Faith’s turn to evil means she must hold the torch in Sunnydale, decides to launch an offensive to shut down the Mayor’s plans for Ascension.
Because Anya’s amulet was destroyed, she is destined to live out the rest of her life as a mortal (she is also flunking math). Her old boss, D’Hoffryn, refuses to help her. So, Anya asks Willow to fold time with spell. Willow agrees but the spell goes awry bringing Willow’s vampire doppelgänger into the real Sunnydale.
Principal Snyder forces the gang into selling bars of chocolate to raise funds for the school band. Little does he know that the chocolate bars are under a spell meant to make adults act like they did in their teenage years which will provide a distraction the Mayor needs while he offers sacrifice tribute to a demon.
Buffy’s dreams about Angel continue to haunt her. This is further complicated when a boy from school, Scott Hope, shows increasing interest in her. However, Buffy has very little time to think about this with the arrival of a new slayer named Faith who harbors a lot of secrets. 
Buffy returns to Sunnydale and finds that things aren’t exactly as she left them. From her point of view, everyone has moved on without her and Buffy doesn’t seem to fit into their lives anymore. To show Buffy they care, the group throws her a party, which grows to an inordinate proportion and manages to alienate her even more.
Sunnydale High finally has a sports team to be proud of – the swim team is racing towards a state championship and nothing seems to stand in their way except for the fact that something is eating the members of the team leaving only their skins behind.
Spike and Dru are planning something big, but they need to keep Buffy occupied, so they send for the Order of Taraka, deadly semi-human assassins. Add in a new slayer coming to town and things get interesting.
Buffy must face off against horrors (real and supernatural) at Parent-Teacher Conference Night.
Cordelia’s friends are being attacked by an invisible force and nobody knows what is happening. 
