If you could change 3 things about Buffy season 7
POSTED BY: OPPYH
UPDATED: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 02:26
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I'm sorry - I must step in here to defend Anya.
She is a good character - and at times was certainly needed to provide laughter or sense.
You're just a spoil-sport. Sorry. My arguments can often degenerate into name-calling. It's not my fault.
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1. More of a focus on the core scoobies. They kind of got left out during all the fuss about the potentials and Andrew and other side characters. Except for the Buffy/Spike storyline which never seemed to go anywhere and didn't make sense a lot of the time.
2. LOTS of development for Dawn! The glimpses we got of the woman she was becoming during the season were really amazing. I was very sad we didn't get to see more of her, especially after Conversations with Dead People.
3. Tara in Conversations with Dead People instead of Cassie. Just imagine what those scenes in the library would have been like! I mean, the episode was brilliant and is one of my overall favourites, but Tara in the episode would have been ... wow!
Of course if I were allowed a fourth I'd bring Tara back somewhere before the end of the season. Just because 
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Season seven was one of the worst seasons of any television show I have ever seen in my life. It was boring, the writing was terrible, and it made me lose all interest in characters that I loved been following for six years.
1. Kill Dawn.
2. Have Robin beat Spike "Lies My parents Told Me"
6. Xander or Willow should have died doing something heroic.
raul bloodworth
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I know this thread's been around a long time, but until recently I had only seen season 7 once. Just finished watching it again, and for the most part what I felt about it the first time around was still the same.
1. Spike's intention had been to get the chip out of his head, but then they spun the story to where getting back his soul was supposedly his intention all along. That was cheating.
2. Tara instead of Cassie talking to Willow in Conversations With Dead People.
3. Someone, anyone, should have killed Andrew in season 6. I cringed everytime he was on screen. Way more irritating than Kennedy.
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I like season 7 in their individual forms. The idea of giving the slayers their powers is wicked.
Although I must admit that I would want to change a lot for season 7. So I am goin with my top 3.
1. Tara - Tara should talk to Willow in the Lubrary. It was UBER-STUPID to have Cassie talk to Willow. UBER STUPID! It maybe because Amber did not want to return? 
If Tara returned it would have been a really, really good season. Love is good.
2. KENNEDY - NO WILLOW-KENNEDY relationship! Kennedy was useless anyway. Kennedy was forced. Just watched the DVD and I am still trying to swallow her in. (Metaphorically speaking). It never looks like love.
3. LESS POTENTIALS, MORE CORE CHARACTERS - Caleb should have been in there early in the season. Xander and Willow and Anya And Giles! Anya and Xander should have gotten married again!! Then it would have been great with Anya dying. If the world was about to end, I would have rushed my marriage!
When I watched season 7, I felt that there was constant foreshadowing. We know something is coming, so will you stop already??? Something is always coming anyway.
Does anyone know what is stopping Caleb from invading the Summers residence? The first?? Come on!
The thing I felt about season 7 is that there is too much let-up, that ended up a let-down.
The hospital scene with Xander and Willow was well-done. You can see and appreciate the relationship of the two. They were there from the beginning. They were there before Buffy. One can almost feel the level of friendship those two had in that scene. Simon and River. Hmmm...
There should have been more of them. Giles felt useless in the season. But I love the part when they thought that Giles was the first. Going to the desert and tackling him. FUNNEEE!!!
I would not have the 4 characters separate in the end. I want them to come out of Sunnydale High last, a final face-off with the first before the destruction of Sunnydale. Embraced in Spike's light, no ubervamps, no bringers, The original scooby gang vs the first. Willow, white haired. Xander, one-eyed. Giles, Brittish! 
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Lots of people have been saying "Tara, not Cassie, should have talked to Willow in CWDP" so I just wanted to mention that this was not the writer's/Joss's fault. Amber Benson was asked to come back for the episode, but, to quote her imdb trivia page:
Quote:
Amber declined to return to "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (1997) in the seventh season, because creator Joss Whedon wanted her to play a villain masquerading as her slain character, Tara. Knowing how Tara's death had upset so many of her fans, Amber did not want to further traumatize them by having the character seemingly return from the grave, but being evil.
Here's the link to her trivia: http://imdb.com/name/nm0072435/bio.
It's just one of those things. Circumstances considering, I thought that the writers did pretty well with Cassie taunting Willow.
Arcadia (aka Greyfable and/or Katie)
www.stillflying.net -- picking up Firefly were Joss left off. We will hold 'til he gets back.
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1. When Willow does her spell that would endow all the Potentials with full slayer powers Dawn also gets endowed with the power. She and Buffy does have the same blood.
2. Anya does not die.
3. Angel fights along side Buffy.
-River
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3. Less time on potentials. Yes, I agree with the decision to have them exist, but they took over most of the show and that did piss me off a bit, mostly because Xander had nothing to do. still glad Joss changed his mind about killing Xander off instead of injuring him...that would have killed ME.
2. Killed Kennedy (and Rona!)off, soon after her crush on Willow was revealed. I had no problem with Kennedy's feelings for Willow. If I were a gay woman, I probably would too, but I never bought that Willow would be attracted to her personality...ugh!!!!!!!!!
1. Buffy chooses neither Spike or Angel, but best friend Xander...or at least would have hinted at that potential development after she was done being cookie dough.
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1) No continuity errors (Giles actually still part of the Council, Willow not being all scared of doing magic on BtVS and yet super-powered and confident on ANGEL, etc.)
2) Make the Potentials not as weak (the concept of the Potentials was great, but it sort of failed in execution)
3) Dawn actually becomes a Slayer
There's more stuff I would change, but you only asked for 3 things.
I was a huge critic of S7, but having watched nearly every episode, it's not nearly as bad as I first thought it was; the season actually has some great themes and ideas, but some of them were not executed as well as they could have been (which can also be said of BtVS Season 4).
Edit: I also wanted to say that, in hindsight, Kennedy's not nearly as bad of a character as I initially thought she was, and, when you look at the various facets of Willow's personality, it's not that hard to believe that she'd fall in love with someone like Kennedy or Faith (since the two characters are incredibly similar in personality).
Take my love
Take my land
Take me where I cannot stand
I don't care
I'm still free
You can't take the sky from me
Take me out to the black
Tell 'em I ain't comin' back
Burn the land and boil the sea
You can't take the sky from me
There's no place I can be
Since I've found Serenity
But you can't take the sky from me
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Put Willow together with a nothing character like Kennedy, and there is no magic,(pun intended) but when she was with tara her character was much more natural, and she just seemed like Willow.
I swear in season 7 of Buffy willow was replaced with a bland person that resembles Willow in every way, except personality.
I don't have a hatred toward Kennedy in any way. The actress that played her did a fine job, and she made a great potential/slayer. Just one smal thing: Keep her the hell away from Willow.
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