When the vamp-child called Faith a whore in that weird moment I thought of Wood at first. He called Buffy a "filthy whore" once and those children were his petty-revenge salute to Faith. But I agree there must be something more going on with that moment and probably something about her family will come up. Also the run-down house where kids lived looked like a typical South Boston getto house where Faith must have grown up.
As for Faith character issues - she's in about the same place where we left her in Season 7, minus Wood. I don't think she's Season-4 girl. In A4/B7 she just got out of prison to help Angel (and almost died there), and then she went to Sunnydale to help with Apokalypse there. Non-stop fighting for couple of weeks out of prison - that's all we saw of her. She made peace with Buffy but didn't become her friend (and she never will, I suspect), same with other Scoobies. And I never thought their affair with Wood would be long term or that he would be good for her. He had his own issues and as we saw here he only made it worse. I agree that putting her at rock bottom here is a plot device and that fate could have been kinder to her. But what we are seeing is totally plausible. And for me also highlights another theme: isolation of Buffy in her castle. And Faith here reminds me of that decoy slayer in #5 also sent on a dangerous mission - how much does Buffy know about all of this?
As for Buffy and Xander - their scenes were very intimate and hot. I just wish they would drop the joke and get on with it - hook him up with Renee, or Buffy, or whatever. Just wake me up when they get there. :)
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Also the run-down house where kids lived looked like a typical South Boston getto house where Faith must have grown up.
As for Faith character issues - she's in about the same place where we left her in Season 7, minus Wood. I don't think she's Season-4 girl. In A4/B7 she just got out of prison to help Angel (and almost died there), and then she went to Sunnydale to help with Apokalypse there. Non-stop fighting for couple of weeks out of prison - that's all we saw of her. She made peace with Buffy but didn't become her friend (and she never will, I suspect), same with other Scoobies. And I never thought their affair with Wood would be long term or that he would be good for her. He had his own issues and as we saw here he only made it worse.
I agree that putting her at rock bottom here is a plot device and that fate could have been kinder to her. But what we are seeing is totally plausible. And for me also highlights another theme: isolation of Buffy in her castle. And Faith here reminds me of that decoy slayer in #5 also sent on a dangerous mission - how much does Buffy know about all of this?
As for Buffy and Xander - their scenes were very intimate and hot. I just wish they would drop the joke and get on with it - hook him up with Renee, or Buffy, or whatever. Just wake me up when they get there. :)