Buffy The Vampire Slayer 7th Season

[Riders]

I wanted to discuss the 7th Season but also if anyone wants to bring up any other discussion about Buffy too its welcome.

I did not like season 7. The reason is this. The episode where she had taken the future slayer girls into battle with Calub and wanted to take then again, and they had mutiny kicked Buffy out and voted Faith in as head slayer.

They said all this stuff about how shes been in charge all this time and doesn't know how to follow, and take direction and is half hazzardus about the way she slays and tries to do things her way. To me its like they were standing against the whole tire show how it had all been so I didn't agree with it.

Yes shes been in charge, but Giles her watcher had said all the time" the SLayer must work alone its her duty she fights alone". So excuse me they made her in charge because it is her job to fight and decide how to fight.

Another problem I had was this. They said Buffy was wrong about Calub, Buffy said he had something of hers because he sent that message and they said it was a lie a set up that there was nothing there.

But actually Buffy was right, she went in and fought Calub alone with the first Slayers sword, that is what he had of hers; she went in and did her tumbling and stayed away from him and got the sword left then came back fought him herself and won.

So after all that gripping about how it could not be done they couldn't fight Calub themselves and he didn't have anything of hers, it was a big lie. I mean for crying outloud Buffy went in and killed him herself and they couldn't find the courage as a group to fight him? Give me a break.

I just did not like the 7th season. 1 through 5 is my favorites 3 is my very favorite season. SOme of season six episodes I like some I don't, but season 7 stunk for me.

ANy opinions?

 

[Thana]

Yeah, The 7th season was really.. I don't know it's like Joss Whedon just decided to mess with the whole Buffy Universe, Like he was trying to push two different genres together (Post-apocolyptic and Urban Fantasy). I loved Buffy so much I followed the comics for a while (Season 8) and you would not believe how ridiculous it becomes. Spike in a spaceship with Cockroach aliens, Buffy and Angel are apparently some kind of Gods that sex a universe into existence. It just gets ridiculous.

Pretty much after she gets back from the dead, Things start going downhill. (Except for the Once more With Feeling episode, That was amazing)

 

[Riders]

I liked season 5 because it dealth with the trauma of her dieing, she felt dead afterwards had a hard time with her emotions. After I got out of the Pentecostal church where I was addicted to getting emotionally high off the holy ghost services and I quit going I felt the same way emotionally dead so I liked 6.

 

[SomeRandom]

Season 7 you could really tell that Joss was too busy to deal with Buffy. You see it often on his shows when his schedule conflicts too much. The passion was missing and when the crew says they thought Buffy would end when she died you can believe it. You can start to see the writing staff start to become fatigued. Though I liked season 6, season 7 was too lacklustre to me.

 

[Kapalika]

season 7 sucked. 6 was good because there wasn't any one main villain and the season touched on that and it mostly could deal with just enjoying the characters and the monster of the week and the implications of a lot of what had happened in the series. Really I think it could of ended with 6 if they had it end a bit' differently.

Otherwise it probably should of ended with 5.

 

[Riders]

I agree with that if it had ended at season 5 when she died it would've been good or even season 6 . I liked season 6 because it dealt with trauma and I remember feeling dead a lot after I got out of the Pentecostal church so I related a lot with season 6.