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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 help of her high school friends and her stuffy mentor Giles, faced sundry monsters and saved the world - a lot. Along the way, 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 horror series starring an erstwhile typical high schooler who battles vampires and demons. But, fairly quickly on, this unassuming little show, 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 maintain 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 melancholy finale season, Joss Whedon attempts to provide closure to the show and also to bring it full circle to its origins. The opening episode “Lessons” has Buffy escorting Dawn, for her inaugural school day, back to good, ol’ Sunnydale High, which has just been rebuilt on top of the old one. This, by the way, means that the Hellmouth is very much alive and again active. Somehow, Buffy is offered a job as a school counselor at Sunnydale High by the enigmatic principal, Robin Wood (24’s D.B. Woodside). Back in England, Willow, under the tutelage of Giles and a benevolent coven of witches, has been recovering from her turn to the dark side (Season Six) and receives a horrifying glimpse of the future for Sunnydale. Meanwhile, Spike is found dwelling in the Sunnydale High School basement in a bonkers state of mind, influenced by his new 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 still fixing windows…
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The season’s major story arc involves the return of the First Evil, the original and the source of all evil. 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 get a hint of the season’s Big Bad 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 seek 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 prove to be uncowed and contentious free thinkers. Buffy has never been forced to deliver 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 form and can only assume the identities of dead people, this is an opportunity for a callback of Buffy’s past uber-foes. For one last time, we get to enjoy cameos of the Master, Drusilla, the Mayor, Adam, Glory, and two of the Nerd Trio. Pretty neat. Besides the First, Buffy faces two despicable 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 frightening, mysoginistic preacher who convincingly beats Buffy senseless in several encounters.
As ever, the writers do an amazing job. The episodes are obviously action-packed. But, underneath the surface, the show is laden with metaphors and symbolisms. Themes of isolation, the isolation of a leader, female empowerment, sacrifice, friendship, and humanity are touched on in great 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 evil or have turned evil in the past: Willow, Spike, Anya, Faith, Andrew…All these characters are trying to find their way back to atonement; it won’t be easy.
This season has to be the one with the most recurring characters in it. Principal 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 way for her eventual return to the fold. Only Spike seems to maintain copious screen 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) prove to be welcome additions to the cast, while the non-English speaking Asian Potential drops some instant funnies. “Conversations with Dead People” reintroduces Andrew (the very good, very funny Tom Lenk) as a possible good 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 way, is scary good as Caleb.
The Special Features provide episode commentaries by various cast and crew members on “Lessons,” “Selfless,” “Conversations with Dead 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: Full 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 look at Joss Whedon’s top 10 favorite Buffy episodes and some of his thoughts about the series); an outtakes reel (not that funny); “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, little blonde damsel needing a hero to come to her rescue. Seven years of quality television has proven that audiences will accept a tiny girl being capable 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 still so much that this season has to offer: an us against the world mentality, superlative action sequences, shivery horror/fantasy elements, witty repartees, heartfelt dialogue, gripping, dramatic stories, and great acting. And, of course, great, iconic heroes in Buffy Summers, Spike, Faith, and crew. Five stars for one of my all-time favorite shows EVER.
Oh, yeah, and I like the slim set collection.
As a huge “Buffy” fan, I was both nervous and excited when I received the Seventh Season DVDs in the mail: nervous, because it was the final season - what if it wasn’t good? And excited, because it WAS the final season, and traditionally, much happens during the final year of a TV show. I’d read reviews claiming that the season was terrible, so I began the season expecting to be a little disappointed.
But I wasn’t. The first five episodes were terrific. They made me feel like I was back in the good ol’ days of “Buffy”, in the early seasons. “Lessons”, the season opener, was great and filled with Joss Whedon’s trademark wit (although he wrote the episode, he didn’t direct it). “Him”, while not the most brilliant episode, was very enjoyable (particularly a sequence towards the end of the episode, with some terrific music and editing). “Conversations with Dead People” was a great episode, thanks to numerous intriguing storylines and a fine script (not to mention a great 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 show has produced. The show’s major comeback was the seventeenth episode, “Lies My Parents Told Me”. It was a very interesting, cool, well-written episode, in which Principal Wood attempts to murder Spike for a crime he committed long ago. From there on, the show improved, but it still wasn’t like it used to be.
The finale - “Chosen” - was one of the greatest episodes of the show. Written and directed by Joss Whedon, it’s filled with great Whedon dialog, humor, and action. Whedon gives the show the dramatic, explosive, and very fitting ending the show so rightly deserved.
The two finer characters introduced in the season - Principal Robin Wood, and Caleb, the Evil Preacher - really improved the episodes (although Wood seemed to disappear in some of the later episodes). As I love Joss Whedon’s sci-fi/western show “Firefly”, I thought it was fantastic to see Nathan Fillion (the star of that show) appear on “Buffy” as Caleb.
Willow never really shines in this season until the final episode (you can tell Whedon loves her). Sarah Michelle Gellar does her best to work with the weak material she’s given, as do the rest of the cast members.
The really horrible thing about this season is that there’s a point where you just stop caring. You watch 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 Dead People”
4. “Lessons”
5. “Him”
THE DVDS: These DVDs are the same as the original releases, but with a reduced price and thin packaging.
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