Summary: Here is the Hellmouth Podcast for the Buffy the Vampire Slayer series, Season 3 Episode 14 - Bad Girls. Don't forget to sign up on the Hellmouth Empire forums (http://hellmouthpodcast.com/HellmouthEmpireForums/index.php). Vote in the Tuning in to SciFi TV best Genre television show countdown (http://tuningintoscifitv.com/2010/11/20/top-genre-television-shows-of-all-time/) There is a special segment for those of you with the iphone app where Bryan discusses the Buffy reboot movie in more detail. HMPC 0314 “Bad Girls” - Buffy The Vampire Slayer * Hello Sunnydale and welcome to the Hellmouth Podcast for the Buffy The Vampire Slayer Series, Season 3 Episode 14 titled “Bad Girls” * 2-Minute Buffy o Buffy and Faith are slaying in the cemetery as Faith tries to get Buffy to kiss and tell about whether or not Bander ever happened off camera. o The dedication is coming up pretty soon and the mayor wants things to go off without a hitch so these vampires that are in town need to be watched. o We meet Wesley Windham Price, watcher extraordinaire, debonair and spiffy-haired that he is. He is please to meet Buffy, she is not so pleased. o Giles enjoys playing the role of silent. sarcastic, anarchist when Wesley is around. o Wesley informs Buffy that the vamps she killed are remnants of a sect that served Balthazaar a demon that is long dead. He orders her to go retrieve the amulet they are looking for which goes over quite well. Quite well meaning horribly bad o Wesley meets Faith and finds her to be a woman of few words, “Screw that” to be exact. o Faith and Buffy retrieve the amulet that night and Buffy gets a little taste of what it feels like to be Faith the carefree, reckless slayer. She likes it. o Buffy gives the amulet to Wesley who then lectures Buffy on the three key words for any Slayer: preparation, preparation, preparation. o But the years of training with Giles are too much for Buffy who quickly realizes that that is in fact not three words but one word three times. o Buffy begins pushing away the Scoobies and her responsibilities at school in favor of getting closer to Faith and embracing the inner force that she becomes when she is slaying with Faith. o Buffy does another naughty dance only this time it is with Faith at the bronze. o Angel shows up, lurking, warning of evil, takes the amulet, departure. Pretty much standard Angel. o Turns out Balthazaar isn’t dead although without a thigh-master and low carb diet pretty soon he will wish he was. o He is marinating and ordering his minions to bring him the amulet and kill the slayers. o Faith and Buffy decide to take on Balthazaar, Faith explains to Buffy that what a slayer wants, a slayer gets. They also gets arrested. o Back in the library, Wesley is criticizing Giles’ methods which turns out to be a big no-no for Giles. o They get kidnapped and taken to Balthazaar o That night on patrol Faith accidently kills the deputy mayor. o The two slayers awwwwww freak out! o Angel finds Buffy as she flees the scene and tells her that Giles has been taken. o She and Angel go to the warehouse, Hijinks ensue o Buffy saves Giles, kills Balthazaar, oh and Wesley survives by cowering in the back. o The Mayor’s dedication goes well and he is now invincible for the next 100 days, good for his plans of ascension, bad for the Scoobies. o Buffy goes to talk to Faith about what happened and finds Faith to be quite sociopathic. Whatever closeness they had in the last few days is now back to the same Faith who is withdrawn and callous. o End Episode * Missy’s Fun Facts from Down Under o Bad Girls-Originally,the Wesley character was going to be abit like Michael J. Fox in 'Back to the Future' movies. But in the end, the writers decided to make Giles cooler and rebellious by making Wesley so straight-laced.
