Buffy the Vampire Slayer - The Complete Seventh Season (Slim Set)
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Movie Reviews of Buffy the Vampire Slayer - The Complete Seventh Season (Slim Set)
Movie Review: Not the best season at all
Summary: 3 Stars
All in all, I consider ANGEL a superior show to Buffy.
Anyway, Joss Whedon being Joss whedon he would not release below-stantard products and Buffy 7 is a good season, whilst being clearly inferior to other six seasons, IMHO. What are the reasons that I think so?
1) The Potentials - annoying, taking the focus out of the Scoobie Gang;
2) Kennedy - The Annoyer One.
3) Makng Xander half-blind, when he already had too little screen time;
4) Giles - almost gone;
5) The death of Anya - it seems they simply did not care about i;
6) The First Evil = lame
7) Caleb = lame. A woman hater? Come on!
Well, as you can see, I did not enjoy the season that much, but I agree it is essential for Buffy and Angel fans. (like all ohter seasons from both shows).
Movie Review: Not the best of Buffy
Summary: 4 Stars
"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" was a rare thing: a five-star TV series. The seventh season was still good, but was not the best of the series.
The theme of the potential slayers contradicted one of the great qualities of the show: this series turned around very interesting, well-defined characters, whether they were likable or not. By adding the large number of potential slayers to the mix, the writers made it impossible to define those characters. They were just "there" -- it was impossible to care about them. With the show wrapping up, Joss Whedon and the other writers could have limited the number of new characters, so that they had time to define those characters. But they did not, to the detriment of the show.
Secondly, obvious feminist theme introduced at the end -- that the uniqueness of the slayer was a plot by men who lived long ago, and through Willow's magic, all potential slayers could be empowered as actual slayers -- is ridiculous. If the empowerment of women is symbolized by the notion that a tiny fraction of them have magical power, then most women remain powerless. Seriously, "Buffy" is very close thematically to the "magical girl" genre of Japanese cartoons (think Sailor Moon and so forth), where the super-powered girl heroine excites the girls by being super and the boys by being a sex symbol. The overt feminism introduced during Buffy's seventh season is preachy and offensive.
Thirdly, the seventh season makes the evil enemy overly physical. "Buffy" is fantasy, and fantasy works by making "spiritual" things like good and evil objective and physical, so that they can be confronted. But in this season, evil is too physical. Apparently, the apocalypse that is going to overwhelm the world is an invasion of a massive number of "uber-vamps" who are armed with... swords? And disintegrate when exposed to sunlight? At the end the heroes enter the "hellmouth" and see the thousands of these evil creatures down in a pit. So, at great cost, they fight them with swords. Jack Bauer ("24") would simply toss a suitcase nuke down in the hole, incinerate the lot of them, and be done with it all. The overall greatest weakness of the "Buffy" series is that in general the bad guy had to be defeated physically by Buffy. (The only exception to this was the year Willow went bad, and had to be "conquered" by Xander's friendship.) In other words, even as fantasy, the ending of this seventh season was too far beyond belief.
Given all that, the old characters that pre-existed the seventh season still were a lot of fun, and bringing back characters like Faith added much to the show. There were several good episodes, especially in the first part of the season. And making the heroes pay a real price for their victory -- one is half-blinded, another is killed, and several of the potential slayers die also -- makes the whole thing very serious fantasy. "Buffy" was a five-star series, but this season, while good, does not come up to the quality of some of the others. Four stars.
Movie Review: A bittersweet end
Summary: 4 Stars
**some spoilers*
It wasn't my favorite season but it was a good ending! Very emotional. It's nice to see how all the characters developed. Loved that Angel,Faith and Joyce had a final appearances. I miss the show! So every two years or so I can have my Buffy marathon! Thank god for DVDs. I also enjoyed the special features on disc 6 (Buffy wraps party, Joss Whedon's 10 most favorite episodes, etc).
Movie Review: The End of Buffy & Co.
Summary: 5 Stars
I was such a huge fan in the last few seasons so had to have this one. The romance between Spike and Buffy was really bittersweet. Having Andrew come back as comic relief was a genius idea.
Now if Joss would just make another series, please?
Movie Review: A landmark TV show comes to a close
Summary: 4 Stars
The last season and one last chance for a fun episode which has very little to do with the overall plot of the season. That would be "Him", about a high school boy wearing a magic letterman's jacket which causes any girl to fall under a love spell with him, while Percy Faith's "Theme from `A Summer's Place'" plays in the background. The "him" is played by Thad Luckinbill ("8 Simple Rules For Dating My Teenage Daughter", "The Young and The Restless"). Willow turns into Warren in "The Killer In Me" and nearly re-creates the shocking ending of "Seeing Red" (from Season 6). "The Killer In Me" provides the only way we could ever get to see "Warren" being sorrowful for what he did. A landmark TV show that gave us a variety of horror, comedy, soap opera and even a musical, one that gave us fictional monsters and real emotions, comes to a close in "The Chosen".