If you could change 3 things about Buffy season 7

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BATMARLOWE

Wednesday, June 22, 2005 3:32 AM

To Grounded: Amen, brother (or sister)!

To Fray101: I know no Season 6 and 7 means no musical and that Buffy's dead. The end of Season 5 was a tragedy, but it was a beautiful one. If Season 5 had been the end of the show, I wouldn't want it to end in Buffy's death. But since it did end with that beautifully done tragedy I rather see it go out like that than to go on to what IMHO are two inferior seasons. And I'm even willing to sacrifice the musical for that.

Back to Grounded: Did you mean 7 still happened but 6 was all dream or that both 6 and 7 were a dream?

SPACECOWGIRL

Wednesday, June 22, 2005 4:06 AM

1.Tara instead of Kennedy
2.SMG doesn't have a cold.
3.Wood dies. He tried to kill Spike so I don't like him!
4.Better, less whiny potentials. Good idea-bad execution.

And that's more than 3 so I'll stop now. By the way I do like Season 7. I like most all of BTVS.

GROUNDED

Wednesday, June 22, 2005 9:44 AM

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Originally posted by batmarlowe:
Back to Grounded: Did you mean 7 still happened but 6 was all dream or that both 6 and 7 were a dream?

Well the thread was about changing things in S7 so I worked around that. Personally I'd erase all of S6/7, including the good eps - they were good, but not worth the pain of all the others.

BATMARLOWE

Thursday, June 23, 2005 10:10 PM

I couldn't agree more. There were some good eps in 6 and 7 but IMHO only 3 great ones. OMWF (anybody notice that billboard on THE INSIDE the other night?), "Tabula Rasa" and "Conversations with Dead People". But I felt overall those seasons were just botched--bad ideas badly handled. And like you said--not worth the pain.

GROUNDED

Thursday, June 23, 2005 10:33 PM

I'm not a huge fan of S5 either, but it had Angel S2 running concurrently to ease the slight pain. Angel S3 did it's best to balance out Buffy S6, but ultimately couldn't cope. Then came the sucker punch combo of Angel S4 and Buffy S7 and it was KO for me :(

FINN MAC CUMHAL

Thursday, June 23, 2005 10:57 PM

I didn’t watch season 7 and I only saw about two-thirds of season 6. In my opinion, the end of season 5 was the best ending that the series could have had. Season 6 took a powerful and dramatic ending and turned it into an anticlimactic let-down. The whole slayer mythology rested on the notion that slayers ultimately die and are replaced by new slayers. This lent a tragic and ominous provision to the Scoobies’ adventures that the writers milked for all it was worth, but when the time came to pay the piper they reneged. So while there were many episodes in season 6 and possibly season 7 that were certainly good (in fact, despite not fitting into the Buffy atmosphere, Season 6 had some of the best writing) the only thing I would changed about season 7, and by extension season 6, is that they had never been made.

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Qui desiderat pacem praeparet bellum.

SPIKEANDJEZEBEL

Thursday, June 23, 2005 10:57 PM

More Joss-written episodes, and particularly a Joss "Special" episode. You know the type - each season had one or two - the mind-blowingly different episode that was the best thing about television in it's given year?

Examples: Doppelgangland, Hush, Restless, The Body, Once More with Feeling. Season 7 was sorely lacking on those kind of episodes, with Storyteller and Selfless being the closest, but neither written by Joss.

"I like smackin' 'em!" - Jayne Cobb

BATMARLOWE

Thursday, June 23, 2005 11:58 PM

Well, we split on this one, Grounded. Season 5 comes in at number 3 for me (after 3 and 2). You wanna do a Season full of pain? Season 5 is how you do it.

I didn't want more pain after season 5, but they went that way, so I had to meet them halfway and accept that and then judge it on it's own merits. Of which it had little. In my opinion. But ironically enough my least favorite season has is arguably the best episode of the show.

BATMARLOWE

Friday, June 24, 2005 12:07 AM

Finn, I second your anti-climax. Buffy's death was powerful and moving. And resurrecting her undercut that and piper was left unpaid. I would have rather seen 2 seasons of how the Scoobies try to continue without her than what we got.

SIGMANUNKI

Friday, June 24, 2005 2:12 AM

Holy Crap! Finn and I agree on something!!!

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