Buffy season 7 is great because...

POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Thursday, August 17, 2006 13:06
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CHRISISALL

Monday, July 24, 2006 9:53 PM

The First scares me, it ain't no Glory that can be punched back!

Spike just keeps getting better!

Nathan is in the end.

Eliza is in it, too.

The music by Mr. Duncan is most awesome.

Zoic outdid anything in Buffy or Angel in the final ep.

It was cool.

That last one was a little subjective Chrisisall

OPPYH

Monday, July 24, 2006 11:00 PM

Buffy. She was a complete superhero in season 7.

There were 2 things that bothered me however. Xander, and Willow pretty much no character development, and mostly just put on the back burner to make screen time for the potentials. They deserved much better, as they were my favorite characters.

Kennedy. Sweet mercy, did Willow need a love interest this season? and if so, why did it have to be Kennedy?
Kennedy would have been a great character to be killed off, if for the only reason being that I hated her. Hopefully with the comicbook series of Buffy coming out(the equivelant of a season 8) she will get killed off in the first issue. God I hated Kennedy.

CHRISISALL

Tuesday, July 25, 2006 12:04 AM

Agree that Will and Xander did not get enough time, but I guess I'm in the minority in that Kennedy didn't bug me at all.

Potential potential Chrisisall

EMBERS

Tuesday, July 25, 2006 12:36 AM

I loved the 'power' theme for Season 7...
Buffy getting kind of power crazy (telling everyone what to do) and
I was VERY surprised about the power sharing (Hope I'm not spoilering anyone!)

I was also unhappy w/the abundance of potential slayers when I first watched S7, but in subsequent viewings I find that it didn't bother me that much...
and in subsequent viewings I didn't think that Willow or Xander were really ignored more than they ever were (sure, knowing it was the last season made fans want them in it all the time, but they never were before either)

Personally I enjoyed Andrew a lot, particularly 'Storyteller' and 'Dirty Girls'

and Anya had one of the true great episodes, 'Selfless', of all of the Buffyverse. I'm one of the few (okay I better put this behind spoiler screen):

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who didn't mind her dying, I thought the random death showed that you don't just lose the nameless potentials...

I find that S7 holds up well

CHRISISALL

Tuesday, July 25, 2006 1:10 AM

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Originally posted by embers:
I didn't think that Willow or Xander were really ignored more than they ever were (sure, knowing it was the last season made fans want them in it all the time, but they never were before either)

Not that they were ignored, just not explored as much as they could've been.

Personally, I really don't have a single, solid complaint about S7.

'Cept the tissues I must use Chrisisall

JOSSISAGOD

Tuesday, July 25, 2006 1:42 AM

I'm one of the ones who thinks Joss craps gold, so I LOVED every episode of the entire series. Kennedy didn't bother me at all either, probably because I thought Iyari Limon was hot. But seriously, I think The Potentials needed her, she seemed to be the most schooled in the ways of The Slayer, without actually being one herself until the end.

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The fact that Kennedy was the one training The Potentials most of the time seemed to allow Buffy and Faith to do the really important stuff like killing Caleb.

Zander and Willow didn't get the screen time needed for their characters, particularly Zander, he seemed to just be Mr. Fix-it whenever a demon or Pontential broke anything, Willow seemed to relagated(SP) to the role of Kennedy's girlfriend who has Wiccan powers. Well, I'm spent!

JOSSIS(Most Definitely)AGOD

Self appointed Forsaken! Been on the list for a while now!

"Look at me, I'm STUPID!" The Doctor.

GROUNDED

Tuesday, July 25, 2006 10:48 AM

Sorry CIA, I got nothing ;)

CHRISISALL

Tuesday, July 25, 2006 6:27 PM

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Originally posted by Grounded:
Sorry CIA, I got nothing ;)

Not even kudos for the excellent FX???

Chrisisall

CHRISISALL

Tuesday, July 25, 2006 7:21 PM

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Originally posted by jossisagod:
But seriously, I think The Potentials needed her, she seemed to be the most schooled in the ways of The Slayer, without actually being one herself until the end. The fact that Kennedy was the one training The Potentials most of the time seemed to allow Buffy and (another) to do the really important stuff

Good point JIAG! She definitly had a purpose.

What he said Chrisisall

LWAVES

Tuesday, July 25, 2006 9:17 PM

I agree that Willow and Xander didn't get enough screen time but like others said there were a lot of other characters and you couldn't just bring them in and just have them in the background. You just wouldn't relate to any of them by the end of the series - they would effectively have been cannon fodder.

I am also one of those that thinks Iyari/Kennedy is hot. I loved the bits where she was coming on to Willow and she didn't know how to react. Reminded me of the early seasons of Willow when she first met Oz.

On first veiwing I never really liked Andrew and thought his character was a bit silly. On the second and subsequent viewings I now think he is hilarious, and is great in scenes with Xander.

I personally don't think there are any weak seasons as a whole. There are weak areas and ideas in some, (never a big fan of The Initiative, just seemed to rip on the whole shadow government, Majestic, X-Files thing), but each season has some really fantastic ideas and stand out episodes.
Take the whole thing as one (long) story and it makes complete sense.
I always saw an overiding message that you don't have to do things alone. How many times did Buffy say that she is the slayer, only she can do this, she has to do this alone.
Ultimately we saw other slayers, she wasn't alone in the fight.
Throughout everything her friends and family were there til the end, despite squabbles and troubles.

By the end Buffy had finally come to terms completely with who she was and she wasn't the only one. All the others (survivors) had too.

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