Buffy the Vampire Slayer - The Complete Seventh Season
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Actor: Sarah Michelle GellarEditor: Skip Schoolnik
Writer: Dan Vebber
Writer: Joss Whedon
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Extra tracks, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 990 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-11-16
Studio: WB Television Network, The
DVD Reviews of Buffy the Vampire Slayer - The Complete Seventh Season
DVD Review: quick shipper
Summary: 4 Stars
I was impressed to see how fast this item was shipped to me. Thank you so much. DVD Review: What's not to like????
Summary: 5 Stars
Everything I've read in fans' reviews of season 7 of Buffy sounds like a bad breakup with an ex-lover! I'm not going to go on & on over inconsistencies(in what's probably one of the most consistent shows on t.v.) or the lackluster series finale(which in my opinion was the best finale ever!). Every year I watched, I felt I grew along with these exceptionally complex characters. I think the erudite Joss Whedon did justice to his beloved heroine's adventures. If you are a true fan and can wrap your brain around what he accomplished , you will appreciate this season as much as any other. Deserves a closer look. Pick it up. DVD Review: Redeemed
Summary: 4 Stars
SPOILERS TOO!
As with other reviewers, I consider Buffy to be among the best television ever (one need only compare it to Angel to see how hard it is to really carry this stuff off). Season 7 is also not the best of them all, except for the fact that the last episode is really the most brilliant coup. One can forgive almost anything with such an ending, even the not very interesting setup (Caleb is a caricature, and, as others have said, the First is the Last).
There is a sense in this Season that the writers were writing character shifts in order to set up great scenes, rather than the other way around -- e.g.
(1) It may be that the series ended a bit too soon for the writers. It is really set up that Robin Wood and Buffy would get together, not the Faith detour. He is certainly in a different league than, say, Riley (yawn).
(2) The Willow/Kennedy scene about betraying Tara was quite moving, but I also didn't believe in the romance. It was as if the writers needed the romance so they could get to that scene.
(3) The bringing back of dead characters was a waste (again, written so that there could be scenes, not characters)
There is also something weird about the Potentials, as if they were from some porn sex army/Charlie's Angels episode (as ever, Whedon inserts his own critique, cf. the girls' pillow fight).
Nevertheless -- and in spite of the earlier long-winded Buffy speeches, the last speech and the rising up of the women was amazing and powerful. It was beautifully set up and edited, and the last fifteen minutes just have this astonishing rhythm, and it is clear that it was where Whedon was going -- even if he didn't exactly have the ending -- all along. A long gestation period, but the end certainly justified it.
DVD Review: Great !
Summary: 5 Stars
As always Buffy delivers ! I haven't seen anything like this since the karate chopping Mrs. Peel hit the airwaves. This is the perfect ending to a classic series ..a must ownDVD Review: In Every Generation There is One TV Show that Doesn't Blow
Summary: 4 Stars
BUFFY's seventh season wasn't just the final bow of a great series, it was an out-and-out comeback. A lot of fans were unsure if it could recover from the relative low point that was the sixth season, but with its legacy more-or-less on the line, the cast, writers and producers of BtVS joined together and delivered the goods when it mattered most. Whereas the troubled S6 made me wonder if "the name outlived the man", the seventh followed the oldest rule in show biz: "Always leave `em wanting more."
Things I liked:
* The blasts from the past. It was great fun to see, however briefly, Buffy's Big Bads parade across the screen; this is just the sort of thing diehard fans love. I always wanted to see Mark Metcalf (the Master) do a scene with Spike ("It's going to be an interesting couple of months and I think we're all going to learn a lot. You're going to learn that you're a pathetic shmuck.")
* The Nikki/Robin Wood/Spike sub-plot. I was expecting something like this for years (actually I was expecting Kendra's watcher to show up) and I think it was nicely handled except for the way it was resolved - or rather, not resolved.
* Sunnydale High. Nice to "go home" again even if it was a different set.
* I truly enjoyed the all-too-brief fight between Spike and Faith. Buffy beat up Spike so many times in Seasons 2, 4, 5, 6 and 7 it was easy to forget that before he met his match in her, he was a Slayer slayer (he gave Kendra a beating in Season 2, as I recall).
* The return of vamps as primary villain. For a show with VAMPIRE in the title there was not much focus on the bumpy-forehead set after about Season Four. The ubervamps were a nice touch.
* Nathan Fillion's "preacher" was not by any means my favorite Big Bad, but he was by far the most hateful. Previous Bads were so entertaining it was hard to have any real animosity toward them; not so with him. He was loathsome, sadistic, arrogant, vicious and just nasty.
* Slayer army...very innovative and well done.
* The overall story arc was very strong; the sub-plots weaved well into the main thread of story; everybody had a part to play and played it well. Tony Head did an especially good job of showing Giles' seldom displayed ruthless side.
* All Buffy seasons have a "crisis point" where you think things can't get worse and then they do. Season Seven has a brilliant one with Buffy getting ousted as the leader. E tu, Scoobies?
* Xander's "seven years" speech to Dawn. I thought this was brilliantly written and brilliantly acted. I often wondered how X. felt about being "standing just outside the spotlight."
Things I didn't like:
* A really gutsy move would have been to have Robin kill Spike, or Spike kill Robin. It would have been as jaw-dropping as a certain murder that occurs in the last season of ANGEL.
* The political agenda. Sorry to sound like Agent Mulder having a paranoid moment, but it seemed to me like Joss W. was trying to shovel in as many social-political messages in this season as he possibly could; (explicit gay sex, interracial sex, a bad guy wearing a priest's collar vs. good guy pagans, Buffy emasculating the villain with an axe, etc.) I thought it was preachy and crass.
* Kennedy. I hated, hated, hated this chatacter and think she was the worst ever introduced in the series. The idea that she and Willow would end up together just because they are both lesbians was insulting. It was easy to see why Willow could fall for Tara, who was charming, sweet, and pure of heart; Kennedy, on the other hand, was an obnoxious slut. I also had issues with the way their sex was handled. Tara & Willow's scenes were done metaphorically (casting spells as a metaphor for lovemaking) and were classy and beautiful. Willow and Kennedy's romps to cheesy rock music looked like Skinimax at 3 AM. Was this really the same character of the first three seasons?
* I would have loved it if Xander and Buffy had gotten together. It is my understanding the actors themselves wanted this to happen, but JW torpedoed it. Too bad. I believe it was a logical outcome to their friendship, which intensified greatly in the Sixth Season; also to the fact that Xander had become a man and no longer carried a torch for Buffy, which is of course the surest way to get her interest.
* The thing with the Guardians was silly and lame. It wasn't necessary to the plot and should have been eliminated. I could have done without the excessive use of the nerds from the sixth season, Joss seems to be nearly obsessed with these characters, who are tolerable only in smallish doses as comic relief. And the nerd in me was a bit disturbed by the fact that the graves of Joyce Summers and Jenny Calendar were among the parts of Sunnydale which dissapeared into the abyss. Kind of callous.
* While I was glad to see so many familiar faces from past seasons, including David Boreanaz, I really wanted to see others, including Eric Balfour (who played Jesse in the pilot; he was the "first soldier down" and it would have been great to have him do a scene opposite Xander, who killed him); Robia LaMorte (Jenny), Oz (one suspects this character was not brought back for "political" i.e. sexual correctness reasons; it wasn't correct to make Willow bisexual, she had to be full-on gay!); Ethan Rayne, Riley Finn and Willy the Snitch. I also would have loved to see the First assume the Master's shape and then have one of the ubervamps do a double take as if to say, "Daddy?"
(OK, most of this is the nerdly nit-picking you would expect from oh, say, Comic Book Guy, but hey, what's the use of being a fan if you can't be unrealistic and difficult?) As a rule, I thought the season was very good, respectful of the show's history and mythology, and that it produced some episodes as good as anything from the "golden age" of Seasons 1 - 3. The finale was appropriately operatic in scope, beautifully scored, with great performances all around, and had a beautiful full-circle moment just at the climax between Buffy, Giles, Xander and Willow ("The earth is doomed.") To sum it up: BUFFY was one of the greatest television shows ever, and it was very important for it to exit the stage the same way it appeared. Mission accomplished.
Description of Buffy the Vampire Slayer - The Complete Seventh Season
As Buffy acompanies Dawn on her first date at the new Sunnydale High, Giles continues Willow's magic education in England. But while Buffy is surprised to be offered a guidance counselor job, Willow is shocked to experience a horrific future vision of the Hellmouth.Willow returns to Sunnydale and Giles soon follows with word that the Watcher's Council has been destroyed. Determined to make one last stand, Buffy and her allies gather for the upcoming battle, yet nothing can prepare them for The First and his robed Bringers, who are killing all the Potential Slayers- and anyone else who gets in their way.
The seventh and final season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer begins with a mystery: someone is murdering teenage girls all over the world and something is trying hard to drive Spike mad. Buffy is considerably more cheerful in these episodes than we have seen her during the previous year as she trains Dawn and gets a job as student counselor at the newly rebuilt Sunnydale High. Willow is recovering from the magical addiction which almost led her to destroy the world, but all is not yet well with her, or with Anya, who has returned to being a Vengeance demon in "Same Time, Same Place" and "Selfless," and both women are haunted by their decisions.
Haunting of a different kind comes in the excellent "Conversations with Dead People" (one of the show's most terrifying episodes ever), in which a mysterious song is making Spike kill again in spite of his soul and his chip. Giles turns up in "Bring on the Night" and Buffy has to fight one of the deadliest vampires of her career in "Showtime". In "Potential" Dawn faces a fundamental reassessment of her purpose in life.
Buffy was always a show about female empowerment, but it was also a show about how ordinary people can decide to make a difference alongside people who are special. And it was also a show about people making up for past errors and crimes. So, for example, we have the excellent episodes "Storyteller", in which the former geek/supervillain Andrew sorts out his redemption while making a video diary about life with Buffy; and "Lies My Parents Told Me," in which we find out why a particular folk song sends Spike crazy. Redemption abounds as Faith returns to Sunnydale and the friends she once betrayed, and Willow finds herself turning into the man she flayed. Above all, this was always Buffy's show: Sarah Michelle Gellar does extraordinary work here both as Buffy and as her ultimate shadow, the First Evil, who takes her face to mock her. This is a fine ending to one of television's most remarkable shows. --Roz Kaveney
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