If you could change 3 things about Buffy season 7

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OPPYH

Monday, June 20, 2005 11:23 PM

3. Kill off Willow and Xander, because being my favorite characters, they deserved much, much more than this season had to offer. They could have both been zombies, and it would have had the same feel. Shame.

2. Tone down the potential slayers. They got the limelight, and didn't really deserve it. They could have showed up in episode 19, and it would have had the same effect in the end.

1. Kennedy, Kennedy, Kennedy. If ever there was a more annoying character... no, there was never a more annoying character. Why, oh why in the world did the writers think Willow needed to fall in in love with a macho, man hating, militant, arrogant, selfish, whiny, spoiled brat? I can't write about this too long, she is the reason I almost didn't finish 7. HORRIBLE MISTAKE.

overall a good season, but it really should have come back to the core characters, and instead it drifted, and that is a crying shame.

LUCIDDREAMS

Monday, June 20, 2005 11:41 PM

1. Change the focus on characters - I also wanted more focus on the core characters. It felt like the heart of the show was missing. Like SMG constantly says: more Xander! I'd also want more Giles. And yeah, less potentials. I also heard Joss was going to bring in AB in the end. I don't care how many times they've done that; I would have loved that! In retrospect, I think there probably was too much Spike but JM made it enjoyable.

2. More stand alone episodes - Look at Storyteller, Selfless, and Conversations with Dead People. Notice what they have in common? Towards the end of s5 and s7 I felt the seasons suffered from too much focus on the finale's arc. The other seasons did better jobs of having stand alones without sacrificing the arcs. When the episodes became all about the big finales they just all blended together in my mind.

3. 2 hour season finale.

GLORYBE

Monday, June 20, 2005 11:47 PM

1. Tara/The First speaking to Willow instead of Cassie.

2. The Buffy gets one wish and brings back Tara storyline that Joss didn't get to do because of trouble getting Amber Benson to come back.

3. More wicca for Willow, more funny for Xander and more crazy for Anya.

STARPILOTGRAINGER

Tuesday, June 21, 2005 12:17 AM

1. Set up the whole 'make every girl a slayer' thing better. I love the idea, but I would have liked to see it better established - as it was, it looked like something they pulled out of thin air, "oh, might as well be magic." I would have liked to see something along the lines of (very roughly) them questioning why the first Evil launching the attack now was supposed to be because of there being two slayers at once, which leads them to the realization that... "Hey... if there _can_ be two slayers at once, why can't there be more?" "A new slayer being called doesn't depend on there being no slayers left in the world, a slayer dying just pulls the trigger."
It looked like this was the kind of idea they _wanted_ to go with, but they never quite pulled it off in a way that really gelled.
2. Overall a better sense of pacing, rather than huge apocalyptic monsters like the Ubervamp appearing mid-season and being unstoppable, but then being easily dispatched episodes later.
3. Two words: All Nude. Err, sorry, my mind was in the naughty place. Four words: Tara instead of Cassie.

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EVILMIKE

Tuesday, June 21, 2005 12:27 AM

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Originally posted by StarPilotGrainger:
1. Set up the whole 'make every girl a slayer' thing better. I love the idea, but I would have liked to see it better established - as it was, it looked like something they pulled out of thin air, "oh, might as well be magic." I would have liked to see something along the lines of (very roughly) them questioning why the first Evil launching the attack now was supposed to be because of there being two slayers at once, which leads them to the realization that... "Hey... if there _can_ be two slayers at once, why can't there be more?" "A new slayer being called doesn't depend on there being no slayers left in the world, a slayer dying just pulls the trigger."
It looked like this was the kind of idea they _wanted_ to go with, but they never quite pulled it off in a way that really gelled.

I second this observation. I thought it was an interesting story bit, but I really wanted to see the First discover that there was a second edge to this new opportunity.

OPPYH

Tuesday, June 21, 2005 1:08 AM

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Originally posted by OPPYH:
3. Kill off Willow and Xander, because being my favorite characters, they deserved much, much more than this season had to offer. They could have both been zombies, and it would have had the same feel. Shame.

I just remembered that powerful scene where willow is at Xander's bedside in the hospital, after he loses his eye. Willow starts to break down after he makes that funny comment about Jaws 3-d.
That really got to me, because in that one small scene you could see the love and respect they have for each other. I guess I was too harsh with the killing them off comment. It's just that I wanted more of them during the season, because they were my favorite characters. It just left me a liitle empty at the end.

DIETCOKE

Tuesday, June 21, 2005 1:18 AM

Okay. Problem with season seven? Bad acting. Not one of the potentials was interesting including Kennedy. I liked the concept not the excecution.

Calib just creeped me out.....no words.....he was for me the worst....big bad.

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GTMAN8503

Tuesday, June 21, 2005 1:48 AM

1) The First. Really turned out to be a lame villan. Perhaps The First could have spent the first part of the season as incorporeal, but then gathered enough energy to become solid (Perhaps by using a "vessel" like The Master did in Season 1, and using the energy sucked out of potential slayers to become solid, becoming an UberCaleb). If the first was solid instead of incorporeal, they could have abandoned the whole arc where he's raising an army of UberVamps, in which case...

2) No potentials needed! If The First didn't raise an army, you wouldn't need an army of potential slayers to fight. Buffy and the Scoobies could have done it alone. For me, the season was going along fine until the potentials showed up (ESPECIALLY KENNEDY). The actresses weren't particularly good, and all of their characters were annoying. And, no potentials means no Kennedy-Willow relationship, which, imo, wasn't well developed. To me, it seemed like:

Kennedy: "I'm a spoiled little rich girl who always gets what I want. I'm also a lesbian, and I think you're hot. I want you."
Willow: "I too am a lesbian. Even though I hardly even know you, I guess we can be lovers. There just aren't that many other lesbians around."

3) One last thing I would change about the season...more Xander, more Willow, more Anya, more Giles, even more Dawn (never thought I'd say that). But, with the potentials out of the way, they'd have more screentime anyways.

BATMARLOWE

Tuesday, June 21, 2005 3:45 AM

I'd keep "Conversations with Dead People". I'd change everything else.

But if I had to narrow it down to 3.

1) Lose the Potentials
2) Lose the First
3) Make SMG play at least 60% of her scenes without her arms folded.

SIRENKAIN

Tuesday, June 21, 2005 5:17 AM

Bringing Faith back was a good choice,(nice set up for a spin off) but it never seemed to work. She was better in earlier seasons -even before she went evil. The conversations between Faith and Buffy aways seemed lifeless in S7.

Any one else have a problem with Amy suddening hexing Willow, besides the fact she should have hexed Kennedy instead?

Morbid and creep-ifying I got no problem with.

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