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 succor of her high school friends and her stuffy mentor Giles, faced sundry monsters and saved the world – a lot. Along the design, 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 awe series starring an erstwhile typical high schooler who battles vampires and demons. But, fairly speedy on, this unassuming shrimp display, 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 fill 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 downhearted finale season, Joss Whedon attempts to provide closure to the exhibit and also to bring it plump circle to its origins. The opening episode “Lessons” has Buffy escorting Dawn, for her inaugural school day, succor to respectable, ol’ Sunnydale High, which has objective been rebuilt on top of the traditional one. This, by the plan, means that the Hellmouth is very grand alive and again active. Somehow, Buffy is offered a job as a school counselor at Sunnydale High by the enigmatic primary, Robin Wood (24′s D.B. Woodside) . Abet in England, Willow, under the tutelage of Giles and a benevolent coven of witches, has been recovering from her turn to the sad side (Season Six) and receives a horrifying stare of the future for Sunnydale. Meanwhile, Spike is found position in the Sunnydale High School basement in a bonkers spot of mind, influenced by his recent 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 tranquil fixing windows…
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The season’s major memoir arc involves the return of the First Cross, the unusual and the source of all unfavorable. 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 derive a hint of the season’s Titanic 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 glance 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 expose to be uncowed and contentious free thinkers. Buffy has never been forced to squawk 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 compose and can only win the identities of tiring, people, this is an opportunity for a callback of Buffy’s past uber-foes. For one last time, we fetch to luxuriate in cameos of the Master, Drusilla, the Mayor, Adam, Glory, and two of the Nerd Trio. Glowing orderly. Besides the First, Buffy faces two faulty 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 gross, mysoginistic preacher who convincingly beats Buffy senseless in several encounters.
As ever, the writers do an wonderful job. The episodes are obviously action-packed. But, underneath the surface, the reveal is laden with metaphors and symbolisms. Themes of isolation, the isolation of a leader, female empowerment, sacrifice, friendship, and humanity are touched on in spacious 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 obnoxious or have turned nasty in the past: Willow, Spike, Anya, Faith, Andrew…All these characters are trying to glean their diagram encourage to atonement; it won’t be easy.
This season has to be the one with the most recurring characters in it. Critical 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 scheme for her eventual return to the fold. Only Spike seems to acquire 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) exhibit to be welcome additions to the cast, while the non-English speaking Asian Potential drops some instant funnies. “Conversations with Slow People” reintroduces Andrew (the very agreeable, very comic Tom Lenk) as a possible honorable 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 intention, is scary obedient as Caleb.
The Special Features provide episode commentaries by various cast and crew members on “Lessons,” “Selfless,” “Conversations with Dull 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: Plump 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 examine at Joss Whedon’s top 10 popular Buffy episodes and some of his thoughts about the series) ; an outtakes reel (not that silly) ; “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, petite blonde damsel needing a hero to approach to her rescue. Seven years of quality television has proven that audiences will obtain a cramped girl being wonderful 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 unexcited so considerable that this season has to offer: an us against the world mentality, superlative action sequences, shivery horror/fantasy elements, witty repartees, heartfelt dialogue, captivating, dramatic stories, and mountainous acting. And, of course, huge, iconic heroes in Buffy Summers, Spike, Faith, and crew. Five stars for one of my all-time popular shows EVER.
Oh, yeah, and I like the slim station collection.
As a ample “Buffy” fan, I was both nervous and mad when I received the Seventh Season DVDs in the mail: nervous, because it was the final season – what if it wasn’t gracious? And mad, because it WAS the final season, and traditionally, powerful happens during the final year of a TV indicate. I’d read reviews claiming that the season was unpleasant, so I began the season expecting to be a miniature disappointed.
But I wasn’t. The first five episodes were terrific. They made me feel like I was serve in the edifying ol’ days of “Buffy”, in the early seasons. “Lessons”, the season opener, was colossal and filled with Joss Whedon’s trademark wit (although he wrote the episode, he didn’t state it) . “Him”, while not the most quick-witted episode, was very luscious (particularly a sequence towards the ruin of the episode, with some terrific music and editing) . “Conversations with Slow People” was a huge episode, thanks to numerous sharp storylines and a exquisite script (not to mention a big 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 explain has produced. The show’s major comeback was the seventeenth episode, “Lies My Parents Told Me”. It was a very enchanting, cold, well-written episode, in which Significant Wood attempts to abolish Spike for a crime he committed long ago. From there on, the reveal improved, but it composed wasn’t like it frail to be.
The finale – “Chosen” – was one of the greatest episodes of the present. Written and directed by Joss Whedon, it’s filled with vast Whedon dialog, humor, and action. Whedon gives the prove the dramatic, explosive, and very fitting ending the present so rightly deserved.
The two finer characters introduced in the season – Considerable Robin Wood, and Caleb, the Cross Preacher – really improved the episodes (although Wood seemed to travel in some of the later episodes) . As I worship Joss Whedon’s sci-fi/western display “Firefly”, I opinion it was astonishing to leer Nathan Fillion (the star of that demonstrate) appear on “Buffy” as Caleb.
Willow never really shines in this season until the final episode (you can train Whedon loves her) . Sarah Michelle Gellar does her best to work with the former material she’s given, as do the rest of the cast members.
The really dismal thing about this season is that there’s a point where you unprejudiced conclude caring. You view 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 Tedious People”
4. “Lessons”
5. “Him”
THE DVDS: These DVDs are the same as the novel releases, but with a reduced brand and thin packaging.
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