Not your mothers buffy
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The thing I love the most about Ward is that none of her plots follew the same time line, If Wrath falls in love by page 66, Rhage dosent fall intell 242, its refreshing to see a writer that dosent fallow the 1 kiss, 2nd kiss, bedroom guied lines.
She will also give you a healthy dose of heart ache, not everything is roses and love and happly everafter. Ward gives you the good, and bad, and mostly the ugly of a war with vampiers and lessers.
You almost feel sorry for the lessers towards the end, there soul less beings that can never come back form that. Even Z got to come back from his own hell.
I enjoy her writing and her take on the ideas of vamps. This is not your mothers Buffy and it dosnet try to be.
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Though the first season was a short season, Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a great series to get into if you enjoy supernatural, comedy, relationship woes and a wide variety of monsters, not just limited to vampires. It has a good storyline that develops throughout the seasons as well, so don't let the fact that it's an older show disinterest you; if you like Supernatural and Grimm, Buffy is a good show too.
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer is one of the most reflective pieces of modern life that have ever been created.  Meaning, it's like real life, but more entertaining.  Teenage angst takes on a whole new meaning in this show.  Joss Whedons' stories about a little blonde cheerleader who is suddenly given the responsibility of saving the world day in and day out are exciting, action packed, touching, emotional and surprisingly close to real life on many levels.  Dealing with teenage angst is tough for all young people, the fact that Buffy is given the added pressure of fighting Vampires and demons puts her regular high school life in perspective.  She realizes she would give anything to be just a good student, a cheerleader and have social time at the mall and the local club.  But nothing comes that easy.  Life gives us responsibilities and Whedon seems to know this without question.  He throws everything he can at our tough little heroine and she seems to take it all in stride, sometimes not as gracefully as others.  Along the way she finds friends in unlikely students, geeks.  Where in the movie, which afterward is where the TV Show picks up, she would never have socialized with these kind of people, she finds herself gaining solace in their normality and more honest personalities.  BTVS cannot be described by in a short sentence or two.  The characters, story arcs, themes and even the villains have long term affects.  The individual stories stand alone, but as a whole, the show ties itself together in several ways.  This DVD is worth the money for the shows alone, the extra features only make it that much more exceptional.
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Joss Whedon, the writer, really shined in this, his best television series, with a great deal of talent and effort.  Though not the best season of Buffy, it has many endearing qualities that evolved to perfection in future seasons to a culmination in season three.  However, if you want to know the background of the characters, as well as see how this widely praised series has its roots, check this out.  The dialog alone is worth the price.  You won't get enough of the trendy phrases that, believe it or not, were invented by the writers and were not gathered by hanging out at local high schools.  And finally, get a look at Willow in those freaking leggings.
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The thing that makes Buffy the Vampire Slayer such a great television shows is that it is able to combine action, comedy and drama in such a seamless manner. Once you get past the idea that all that martial arts stuff is needed to drive a steak through the heart of a vamp, the action routines are the best on television. The comedy is character driven to such an extent that a priceless funny moment can be a double take or a raised eyebrow as much as a quick quip or arcane pop-culture reference. But the heart of the series is the dramatic undertones, always implicit in the fact that Slayers die young and reaching its operatic heights with Buffy's tragic relationship with Angel.  All of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer books, whether original stories or adapted from various episodes, automatically lose the action elements. Break down the fight sequence from the second part of "Becoming" and it is going to lose something on the printed page. So losing one part of the Buffy triad is an automatic given. The problem with "Night of the Living Rerun" is that the story overloads the comedy and comes up way short of the drama. Arthur Byron Cover is not alone in this regard as this my standard complaint with the vast majority of Buffy novels.
Forget about the cute title, the heart of this story is a compelling tale: the story of Samantha Kane, the Slayer during the title of the Salem Witch Trials. How does this fit into the Buffy mythos? This happened to be when the Master was accidentally trapped in the other dimension. Buffy keeps dreaming about the past, and when the same thing starts happening to Giles and Xander the set up is for a symbolic replay of the past, hence the book's title.  However, this particular story idea would have worked better either as a bookend to the final demise of the Master or as some sort of parallel story.  Working in Buffy and the Scooby gang just ends up providing extra layers that takes away from a fascinating story idea.  If you think of "Night of the Living Rerun" as a trial run for the "Tales of the Slayers" volumes that have come out since this novel was published you can better appreciate it because this story would have worked a lot better without Buffy.
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Buffy and the gang head off to college.  Still fighting Vamps and demons, Buffy has a new lover in Riley from the ultra secret Initiative. More depth in the supporting characters and their lives.  I still thoroughly enjoyed this season and highly recommend it to fans.
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This applies to all the volumes from season 8

You are probably here for a reason. If ever I had a guilty pleasure Buffy would be atop that list of candidates.  These stories do a nearly impeccable job of translating from screen to page the idiosyncrasies that defined some beloved characters.  Plus, the story just goes bananas (just sang the gwen Stefani song as spell check) this season so its incredibly fun to be surprised and watch the story unfold in a very global and cosmic way.  So cool.
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer, has transformed the conventional hero myth from a depiction of a brawny, dominating loner to a more complex portrayal of a discerning and developing champion of the people. The popularity of certain mythic images and stories imparted by television signifies collective tendencies and needs. Female superhero images in media provide a heroic portrayal of women and herald the recognition of expressions and contributions of femininity. In addition this television series is a modern myth that portrays the development of and relationships to powerful femininity.

Having said that--in addition this series is a lot of fun and enjoyable to watch!!
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Buffy and friends are in full force here. We get to know everyone better and the actors have fully embraced their role. Storylines start to evolve along with the standalone episodes, and are edited just right so I can still understand them. The comedy aspect of this show fits right in without neutralizing the horror. There are moments in this show that are pure psychological terror. Its just as supernatural as "The X-files." Season 2 has an emotional feel that isn't quite matched in other seasons. I think its like the moon aligning and all the elements that made up the show are here. Of course its cheesy, but its also great. Episodes like Inca Mummy Girl, Halloween, Whats my Line 1 &2, and Ted all cascade into a cool finale. While Season 3 is heavier on drama, new characters, and some of the horror that was in season 2, it just can't touch how actually scary and fun Season 2 was. Buffy Season 2 should be watched by anyone who likes horror, mystery, action, supernatural and drama. A+
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"Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Script Book, Season Three, Volume 2" gives us episodes 7-12 from the senior year at Sunnydale High School for Buffy and the Scoobies.  This is the eighth volume of scripts available to date, the rest dealing with the previous two seasons and the "Once More With Feeling" musical episode of "BtVS."  The attraction here for those who are trying to carrying on now Joss Whedon's legions of fans are down to watching "Angel" and waiting for Buffy to make a guest appearance is that these are the shooting scripts for these six episodes.  You can look for typos and other mistooks that they failed to corrupt, but the attraction is getting dialogue and even full scenes that were cut before the final version was broadcast on the WB (the idea of deleted scenes out there is as maddening as the smell of fresh blood would be to newly risen vamp).  I used to suggest that you could read along with these scripts while you watched the episodes on DVD, but I think most of us know the episodes so well by now that we can easily pick up on what was added, omitted or alterred in the final aired version (e.g., the tree sellers in "Amends," p. 216).  Still, you have to admit it is a lot easier to read the script this way than going frame by frame when one of them is available on the DVDs.  But even when there are not changes you get Joss Whedon's wacky stage directions, a type of humor that has obviously rubbed off on some of the other writers as well (e.g., "Anya looks deeply perplexed," page 165).
Included in this second volume of Season Three scripts are: "Revelations" by Douglas Petrie, "Lovers Walk" by Dan Vebber, "The Wish" by Marti Noxon, "Amends" by Joss Whedon, "Gingerbread" by Jane Espenson (story by Espenson and Thania St. John), and "Helpless" (previously "18") by David Fury.  These half-dozen episodes bring us up to the point where Giles is fired by the Watcher's Council, which means in Volume 3 we will see means the next volume (which should have the next five episodes) will begin Faith's slide toward becoming a rouge slayer.  Interesting to note that "Amends" which was the episode submitted by Whedon for Emmy consideration from Season Three, and "Helpless," are both entirely "WHITE" shooting drafts: no revisions as in no "BLUE" pages, no "PINK" pages (I know, you cannot tell by the color of the pages in this book, but they are labeled at the top so you can see what was revised and hazard your guesses as to why).  This latest volume reaffirms that "BtVS" was rich series where every script has a few choice morsels on which we can subsist while we wallow in despair that the show is now part of cult television history.
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I positively love this series!
This is what we might have seen had a series been made about Buffy the Vampire Slayer in middle-age, with kids, a mortal hubby, and a best friend living over her back fence.
Foibles, snark, butt-kicking, super-momming, and basically juggling all the duties & challenges of a woman who can do it all but keeps getting sidetracked by the need to rescue people or save her community from monstrous bad guys.
Lots of fun!
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Fantasy and horror collide in this Buffy novel. Willow is in the center of a growing evil. Babies are disappearing and no one seems to want to do  anything about it. When the vampire population explodes the slayer has her  hands full. When Willow is kidnapped to be used as a human scarifice the  scoobies moblize to save her. Angel, Buffy and Oz make a good team. The  action is exciting. I enjoyed the battle with the little people. They held  their own. I believed Angel and Buffy could be mortally wounded by the  fairies. The folklore was very interesting. One of the most moving moments  is Angel's conversation with a grieving mother. I recommend this book. A  reader does not need to be a fan to enjoy this excellent addition to Buffy  fiction.
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I really think season 3 is one of the best in the series. It's the most consistently solid, although it's got a few loser episodes. It doesn't reach the heights of the second or fifth season, but overall, it's really up there with them.

The Slayer's Senior Year isn't quite as operatic as in the second season, but it's interesting and has some seriousness in it. Buffy explores the dark side with the other slayer Faith, but also realizes the limits of her own power. She loses her Vampire lover for good, and there's the interesting quadrange with Xander-Cordelia-Oz-Willow effect. The Mayor is an awesome villain and he is a lot of fun, and the graduation day fights are awesome, both between Faith and Buffy and The Mayor and Sunnydale. Episodes that stand out: Doppelgangland, The Wish, Earshot. Not to be missed!
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Fantastic character development, engrossing story lines, and a MUSICAL!!! This show had it all. Even when it got awkward around Season 7, the real fans stuck around and appreciated the wonder and beauty that is the world of Buffy.
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Enjoy it while you can because later Buffy's characters starts to change for the worse. While here she is still a super hero type with values and ideals. Later she becomes somebody people try to avoid, an antihero with baggage, emotional drama, and lack of possitive qualities a hero needs to be a hero. I guess the writers and directors wanted to attracted older audiences to watch this, but they made a mistake of changing Buffy for the worst.
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And I really mean that.  This is by far my favorite season of Buffy.  This season opens up with a bang.  (This review will contain many spoilers).  The first episode, "When she was bad", is one of my favorite episodes in the whole series.  Buffy comes back from summer vacation acting very different.  She is very moody, and is acting very wild.  Her friends assume she is possessed by some sort of demon.  It turns out that she is just in a deep depression from her death at the end of the previous season.  The episode "School Hard" introduces Spike, the villain for the first half of the season, who is also one of the best fictional characters of all time as far as I'm concerned.  "Halloween" and "Lie to me" were two other great episodes, the first for its exceptional comedy, the second for its excellent drama.  The two-part episode "What's my Line" was not one of my favorite episodes, but a scene from it caused me to laugh out loud at this show for the first time, the scene where Xander and Cordelia start making out.  Their whole relationship was funny.  Some people didn't think it worked, but I thought it was great.  However, the downside of this episode is the character Kendra.  She was way too wooden, and her accent was horrible.  The two episodes "Surprise" and "Innocence" chronicled Angel's loss of his soul and his return to being a vicious killer.  I have to say, Angelus is definitely my favorite villain in the whole series, possibly one of the best TV villains of all time.  In "Becoming", the two-part season finale, Buffy loses everything.  Her friend Kendra is murdered, she is wanted by the police for said murder, she is expelled from school, and her mother kicks her out of the house.  She has to stop Angel from awakening a demon that will swallow the world.  She sacrifices him to save the world, after his soul has been restored by Willow.  That scene almost brought me to tears.  And I'm a guy.  A macho guy.  And I knew he had his own spin-off series lined up, but still.  Buffy then leaves Sunnydale to get away from her calling as a slayer.

 This was a huge improvement over the first season.  If you read my review of season 1, you know I had some problems with it.  The acting, the effects and makeup, and the actions scenes were not very good.  They weren't horrible, but they weren't great either.  The acting is much better this time around.  Anthony Head is brilliant as usual, but Willow, Xander, and Angel's acting has improved a lot.  Even Buffy, who ironically is not one of my favorite characters, does a pretty good job.  The romance between her and Angel is pretty believable.  Contrast that with the relationship between Xander and Cordelaia.  Their relationship was funny and enjoyable to watch, but it was not very realistic.  Someone as superficial as Cordelia would never have publicly dated Xander.  But hey, it's a TV show, not real life. The action scenes are not very well-choreographed in the first few episodes, but they get better as the season progresses.  By the second half of the season, they are great.  The final fight between Buffy and Angelus (a sword fight) was very entertaining.  Everything about this season was almost perfect.  There were a few cheesy episodes, such as "Some Assembly Required", "Inca Mummy Girl", and "Go Fish", but, you know, nothing's without a few flaws.  Overall, this was a very good season.  If you have never seen it, or if you have seen it but just want to own it, buy this DVD.
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Buffy's a great show.  I never really got into it until the DVDs came out.  This first season release may contain all the shows but it certainly lacks in extras.  Even the menus are bland and it doesn't seem like they tried all that hard.  It's not like this set was rushed.  The X-Files sets were great from the start but Buffy Season 1 will be the odd ball of the series.