From 1997 to 2003, Joss Whedon gave his audience some of the best episodes aired on television. BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER showcased an empowered young girl saddled with the unintimidating name of Buffy Summers, who, with the back of her high school friends and her stuffy mentor Giles, faced sundry monsters and saved the world – a lot. Along the draw, she managed to leave an indelible impact on our pop cultural consciousness.
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Before its series debut, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, based on its promotional push on TV, seemed slated to be a straight-out terror series starring an erstwhile typical high schooler who battles vampires and demons. But, fairly quick on, this unassuming itsy-bitsy exhibit, thanks to Whedon’s intense and witty, pop-culture savvy yet very literate writing, met and surpassed the viewer’s expectations. Whedon created compelling stories and characters who grew on the viewers; for seven years, we watched them strive to acquire a normal life as they navigated thru high school, college life, and then to adulthood, all the while frequently facing down supernatural threats. Which brings us to Season 7.
Possible SPOILERS follow: Here in the bittersweet and dismal finale season, Joss Whedon attempts to provide closure to the point to and also to bring it elephantine circle to its origins. The opening episode “Lessons” has Buffy escorting Dawn, for her inaugural school day, help to splendid, ol’ Sunnydale High, which has fair been rebuilt on top of the primitive one. This, by the diagram, means that the Hellmouth is very remarkable alive and again active. Somehow, Buffy is offered a job as a school counselor at Sunnydale High by the enigmatic distinguished, Robin Wood (24’s D.B. Woodside) . Relieve in England, Willow, under the tutelage of Giles and a benevolent coven of witches, has been recovering from her turn to the shadowy side (Season Six) and receives a horrifying stare of the future for Sunnydale. Meanwhile, Spike is found set in the Sunnydale High School basement in a bonkers status of mind, influenced by his unique soul and possibly also by…something else. Lessee, who’s left? Anya is again a Vengeance Demon, though her heart isn’t really in it. And Xander is calm fixing windows…
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The season’s major record arc involves the return of the First Improper, the current and the source of all sinful. The First’s return is made possible by the instability caused by Buffy’s having died and consequently being resurrected (again, Season 6) . Very early on, we obtain a hint of the season’s Colossal Terrible as various Sunnydale denizens spout the ominous warning: “From beneath you, it devours.” This season also increases the scope of Buffy’s world even more as most of the Watcher Council are annihilated and Giles is forced to survey out Potential Slayers (who are also being killed off one by one by Bringers, no-eyed, murdering servants of Caleb and the First) and bring them to Sunnydale for protection. Now, more than ever, Buffy’s leadership skills and methods are tested and even questioned as several of the Potentials present to be uncowed and contentious free thinkers. Buffy has never been forced to teach as many bracing, rallying speeches as she has been this season, which attests to her foe’s overwhelming level of menace.
Because the First cannot enter our world in a corporeal acquire and can only capture the identities of expressionless people, this is an opportunity for a callback of Buffy’s past uber-foes. For one last time, we derive to like cameos of the Master, Drusilla, the Mayor, Adam, Glory, and two of the Nerd Trio. Exquisite elegant. Besides the First, Buffy faces two unfavorable and truly hard-to-kill villains, who are themselves minions of the First: the Turok-Han, an early caveman type of vampire (thus, even more sturdy than contemporary vampires) and Caleb, the terrifying, mysoginistic preacher who convincingly beats Buffy senseless in several encounters.
As ever, the writers do an extraordinary job. The episodes are obviously action-packed. But, underneath the surface, the expose is laden with metaphors and symbolisms. Themes of isolation, the isolation of a leader, female empowerment, sacrifice, friendship, and humanity are touched on in astronomical depth. This season is also about the quest for redemption. Most of the members of Buffy’s Scooby gang, ironically, at one point or another, were bad or have turned execrable in the past: Willow, Spike, Anya, Faith, Andrew…All these characters are trying to gain their method aid to atonement; it won’t be easy.
This season has to be the one with the most recurring characters in it. Vital Wood and the Potentials are introduced. Season 7 also marks the return of Andrew, Faith, and, in one episode, Angel. With the glut of additional characters, the core Scoobies are given short thrift here, although Dawn does shine in “Potential” and Xander proves his worth in “Potential” and “Dirty Girls.” One episode, “Selfless,” really focuses on Anya and paves the device for her eventual return to the fold. Only Spike seems to absorb copious mask time throughout the series. The camera, of course, is ever on Buffy Summers.
The arrival of the Potentials does usher in a freshness to the series as it simultaneously takes the spotlight away from the Scoobies. The take-charge Kennedy (Iyari Limon), the feisty Rona (Indigo), and Amanda (Sarah Hagan) demonstrate to be welcome additions to the cast, while the non-English speaking Asian Potential drops some instant funnies. “Conversations with Dumb People” reintroduces Andrew (the very helpful, very comic Tom Lenk) as a possible superb guy, while “Dirty Girls” marks the welcome return of sexy Faith (Eliza Dushku) as her encounters with Spike provide some of the high points of the season. The awesome Nathan Fillion, by the contrivance, is scary kindly as Caleb.
The Special Features provide episode commentaries by various cast and crew members on “Lessons,” “Selfless,” “Conversations with Dumb People,” “The Killer In Me,” “Lies My Parents Told Me,” “Dirty Girls,” and “Chosen.” Disc 3 has the featurette “It’s Always Been About the Fans.” Disc 6 offers up four more featurettes (the 36-minute long “Season 7 Overview – Buffy: Fleshy Circle”; “Buffy 101- Studying the Slayer” – various television critics talk about the show’s influence; “Generation S” – interviews with the Potentials actresses; “The Last Sundown” – a recognize at Joss Whedon’s top 10 popular Buffy episodes and some of his thoughts about the series) ; an outtakes reel (not that comic) ; “Buffy Wraps” (the wrap party with cast and crew, but where was Sarah Michelle Gellar? ) ; and for those who care, a DVD-ROM Willow Demon Guide.
Years ago, Joss Whedon wanted to shake things up by turning topsy-turvy the cliche of the hapless, miniature blonde damsel needing a hero to near to her rescue. Seven years of quality television has proven that audiences will gather a exiguous girl being estimable of slaying monsters while remaining quintessentially feminine. So, above all else, BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER is meant to be a feminist allegory. But, for those who aren’t into that, there’s calm so worthy that this season has to offer: an us against the world mentality, superlative action sequences, shivery horror/fantasy elements, witty repartees, heartfelt dialogue, entertaining, dramatic stories, and gargantuan acting. And, of course, tall, iconic heroes in Buffy Summers, Spike, Faith, and crew. Five stars for one of my all-time accepted shows EVER.
Oh, yeah, and I like the slim residence collection.
As a immense “Buffy” fan, I was both nervous and exasperated when I received the Seventh Season DVDs in the mail: nervous, because it was the final season – what if it wasn’t suitable? And wrathful, because it WAS the final season, and traditionally, grand happens during the final year of a TV point to. I’d read reviews claiming that the season was poor, so I began the season expecting to be a tiny disappointed.
But I wasn’t. The first five episodes were terrific. They made me feel like I was relieve in the honorable ol’ days of “Buffy”, in the early seasons. “Lessons”, the season opener, was broad and filled with Joss Whedon’s trademark wit (although he wrote the episode, he didn’t order it) . “Him”, while not the most intelligent episode, was very exquisite (particularly a sequence towards the raze of the episode, with some terrific music and editing) . “Conversations with Humdrum People” was a broad episode, thanks to numerous engaging storylines and a glowing script (not to mention a stout performance by Jonathan Woodward as a talkative undead college student) .
From there, it all went downhill.
Out of nowhere, the show’s footing disappeared. The “Potential Slayers” were introduced, a group of whiney girls whom do nearly nothing for the storyline. For something like seven or eight episodes, we’re forced to endure the training of the Potentials. Those eight or so episodes are some of the worst – and by far the hokiest – that the demonstrate has produced. The show’s major comeback was the seventeenth episode, “Lies My Parents Told Me”. It was a very entertaining, icy, well-written episode, in which Important Wood attempts to abolish Spike for a crime he committed long ago. From there on, the point to improved, but it detached wasn’t like it archaic to be.
The finale – “Chosen” – was one of the greatest episodes of the explain. Written and directed by Joss Whedon, it’s filled with astronomical Whedon dialog, humor, and action. Whedon gives the present the dramatic, explosive, and very fitting ending the explain so rightly deserved.
The two finer characters introduced in the season – Considerable Robin Wood, and Caleb, the Disagreeable Preacher – really improved the episodes (although Wood seemed to depart in some of the later episodes) . As I care for Joss Whedon’s sci-fi/western expose “Firefly”, I concept it was astounding to peer Nathan Fillion (the star of that display) appear on “Buffy” as Caleb.
Willow never really shines in this season until the final episode (you can thunder Whedon loves her) . Sarah Michelle Gellar does her best to work with the customary material she’s given, as do the rest of the cast members.
The really disagreeable thing about this season is that there’s a point where you unprejudiced conclude caring. You eye the episodes because you have to to complete the series. But the season is worth purchasing, if only for the first seven episodes and the last five episodes.
TOP 5 OF THE SEASON
1. “Chosen”
2. “Lies My Parents Told Me”
3. “Conversations with Expressionless People”
4. “Lessons”
5. “Him”
THE DVDS: These DVDs are the same as the recent releases, but with a reduced mark and thin packaging.
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