If you could change 3 things about Buffy season 7

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JELLO

Sunday, August 14, 2005 11:29 PM

So true, I hated Rona 1000 times more than Kennedy.

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Mal: You wanna run this ship?
Jayne: Yes.
Mal: Well… you can’t.

LAMIASONG

Sunday, August 14, 2005 11:48 PM

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Originally posted by Jello:
So true, I hated Rona 1000 times more than Kennedy.
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thank you- could not remember her name...
why couldnt she die instead of Anya, Amanda and all the other potentials...I mean[qoute] ding dong the witch is dead

sooo stupid. what was joss thinking when he allowed that monster into our homes? yes i know I am slightly irrational over this... any tips to get past this problem greatly appreciated but hopeful!

one big shiny family

TRAVIS

Monday, August 15, 2005 2:08 AM

1. Kill Buffy the whole premise of the show was one slayer dies another is called. We all got cheated in the end. But I guess it'd been done before and before and before so I guess it would of been kind of cheapened.

2. Kill Xander I just never like him and am too lazy to go into why here.

3. Three words... Faith orgy potentials

CS

Tuesday, August 16, 2005 6:35 PM

I don't think killing Xander would have worked, I thought it was nice that the core 3 survived.

Then again, the First's primary disguise could have been Xander which would have been pretty cool. And Xander would have had some effect on the series other than 'the guy who fixes windows'.

DIETCOKE

Wednesday, August 17, 2005 4:45 PM

Boy, this is just one nasty, bitter thread for a fansite! You've created a thread for whiners.

NY/NJ Browncoats: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/firefly_nyc

JOSSISAGOD

Friday, August 19, 2005 12:44 AM

1. MAKE DAWN A SLAYER!, Michelle needed more on screen time! and to see the younger sister continue the legacy!
2. Tara would still be alive: she and willow could hook-up with Kennedy. This for no other reason than to keep Tara in the mix,and Kennedy WAS kinda hot in my opinion.
3.Give Zander more Screen time at least in the finale! As you said he deserved MUCH MORE than he got.

I make no more explaination, and no excuses for this writing.

MIKEYMO

Friday, August 26, 2005 2:02 AM

I've been watching the FX reruns of season 7, and I'd forgotten just how pumped I was at the end of CwDP. I honestly thought season 7 would be the best of them all. And then the potentials arrived, and the speeches started. It kind of sounded like the B-story of The Zeppo with the gang stopping an apocalypse - all fakey and overblown, but not played for satire this time. Ugh.

1) no Giles red herring - either kill him off and have him be evil or just drop it
2) SOMEBODY drops the idiot ball and just says, "Hey, screw the First. All it can do is taunt. Let's just concentrate on the bringers and the orcs, er, Ubervamps."
3) Caleb comes into the picture sooner. Cool villain, but it just felt like desparation by the time he arrived.

Maybe a tweak to the ending: I'm thinking thay maybe they could have gone with something like this- Keep the same basic plan of empowering all the girls 'round the world, but the only way for it to work is if Buffy sacrifices herself.

PS I second the follow-through complaint as well.
PPS Rona was SO much worse than Kennedy. She should have been slapped upside the head by Showtime at the latest.

"Be ashamed to die before you have scored some victory for humanity." -- Horace Mann

BECKINSALE

Friday, August 26, 2005 2:48 AM

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Originally posted by GWEK:
As an aside, I am, apparently, the only Buffy fan who liked Kennedy.

No. I too liked Kennedy.

GROOSALUGG

Friday, August 26, 2005 6:22 PM

1. As someone else already said, more stand-alone episodes. There were too many in the second half of the season that were devoted to the whole "First-y circus" and the potentials where not much happened. It just served to point out how thin the overall arc was.

2. Fewer potentials, more Willow & Xander. I disagree with those who argue that S7 became the "Buffy and Spike Show." I don't think Spike got any more screen time than he did in seasons 5 or 6, but it seemed like he did because there was so much less of Xander, Willow, and Anya. And while on that topic, a better payoff for Spike's trigger and the whole disabling-of might've been nice. Three or four episodes--at least--were spent focused on it, making it seem to be this hugely important deal, and when he's finally de-triggered, we don't even get an "Oh darn, now I'll have to re-adjust my plan," from the First.

3. A two-part finale, with both parts written and directed by Joss, as he did with "Becoming" in S2 and "Graduation Day" in S3. Caleb is introduced in "Dirty Girls," ep. 18, which was a great episode and had me thinking "Okay, at least they're going to be able to salvage the final five eps and make them great." Then for the next three... nothing. Total filler. Just the writers and characters dragging their feet, waiting around for Joss to come in and deliver all the action and wrap everything up in the last 42 minutes. (And somewhere in those three filler eps, 19-21, maybe slip in an explanation, however lame it might've been, of why Caleb couldn't just march over to Buffy's house and kill them all right then.)

And not quite making my top 3 reasons but still too important to leave out: Give Anya's death the moment it deserved. We loved that character for four years, and then she was dead and gone and the scene had switched to something else before we could blink. If I hadn't accidentally been spoiled ahead of time and known she wasn't going to make it, I don't think I would've even registered what had happened the first time around. It just went by so fast.

So that's my list. I still enjoy the season, and continue to watch my DVDs, because it's still Buffy and therefore better than just about anything else to come along in the last ten years. But because they'd set such a high standard for themselves in the first six years, the many problems with S7, unfortunately, tend to stand out.

JOSSISAGOD

Saturday, August 27, 2005 4:49 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by GWEK:
As an aside, I am, apparently, the only Buffy fan who liked Kennedy.

I two liked Kennedy, I did not think she was whiny, Butch maybe but whiny NOT IN THE LEAST!

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