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Summary: Buffy gets dark!
Review: Season 2 of 'Buffy' is once again very clever, imaginative, and well-written. Here, the relationship between Buffy and Angel is established and intensified, with one of the best storylines of the season. The best "Buffy" villians EVER--Spike and Drusilla--are also introduced here, and the show develops the dark tone that will be present throughout the rest of the series, with things getting progressively darker as they go along. All in all, the sophomore year is very different in tone to season 1, but it brilliantly develops what is to come. The Holiday themed episodes (Halloween and Valentine's Day) are funny and clever, while the two-part season ender BECOMING is a true stand-out. This is deliciously addicting television--an awesome season that was snubbed MANY Emmy nominations!
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Summary: If you're a True Fan, you have to buy this DVD Collection
Review: I'm one of the hard-core Buffy fans. I have watched it since day one, and I feel like I should be part of the Scoobie Gang. If you are a true fan, definitely buy this collection. It's got some really great special features, such as interviews, that are really worth watching. One featurette I really loved was "Buffy Speak" where the writers discussed how all the different characters had a certain dialect.
A great buy, highly suggested.
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Summary: Wow
Review: Well after the series finale, I knew I had to buy all the DVD's, so after the 1st i obviously bought this second one. And I really don't have much to say seeing as I am speechless, but wow! This was a great season, and I absolutely LOVED.. (or hated) the season finale.
wow
MUST purchase this if you have not.
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Summary: "Buffy" finds it's stride and surpasses most teen dramas
Review: This season was head and shoulders better than Season 1. It's not that Season 1 was bad it just didnt' have the resonance of the Buffy/ Angelus dynamic. The season did start off mediocre with the few stand alones. One lowlight that springs to mind is "Reptile Boy". That all ends after "Innocence" where everything becomes incredibly engaging. It was lovely to have the main heroin have to fight her lover to the death after he becomes a homocidal monster. This season sets up the Angel/ Buffy tension for Season 3 very nicely and "The Becoming 2" is one of the best hours ever to air on television. BTVS is equal parts, funny, charming, disarming, and heart breaking. The commentary for "Innocence" made me laugh out loud several times. Joss is a funny guy. Unfortunately not all of the makers have Joss's wit so when they recap it tends to be a play by play of the episode you just finished watching with very little insight into the process and very few if any chuckles. Sigh. Anyway, it's worth every penny and since BTVS is being sold very affordably I have every mind to own all 7 seasons.
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Summary: Second Season only gets better
Review: Continuing the great work that he started with the 12 episodes in the first season, Joss Whedon continues and starts out great with a meaningful story about Buffy dealing with the fact that she came very close to death in her fight with the Master at the end of the first season. This would be tramatic for any teenager, even if she is The Slayer. This launches a great season where Angel turns and two other Slayers are introduced. Full of Drama, snappy one liners, wit, emotion [and comedy] Buffy's sophmore season shines and raises the bar on the great storytelling and character development that happens over the 24 episodes. Highly, highly, HIGHLY recommended.
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Summary: Truly magnificent
Review: Season one of Buffy was amazing on its own. We were introduced to Buffy, Willow, Xander, Giles, and Cordelia. It was a great season that ended with an awesome season finale. Now Buffy's back in Sunnydale after spending the summer with her father in LA. Still suffering from the trauma of drowning & facing the master, Buffy returns...different. It's "When She Was Bad" & she didn't know how to deal. After a while of settling back into her slayer duties, Buffy is finally back to her old self. Season two is packed with halarious, sad, and action filled episodes that took the show to a whole other level. Buffy and Angel sleep together for the first time which causes Angel to lose his soul & become Angelus again ("Surprise", "Innocence"), we get to meet Oz & discover that he is a werewolf ("Halloween", "Phases"), and tons more. Each episode in season two is a gem, a classic. Season two also features the simply heartbreaking two part season finale "Becoming". Buffy faces off with Angel, and right before she's going to send him to hell to stop the world from ending, Angel regains his soul. Thus, as Buffy states in season three, she kissed him, he held her, and then she killed him. Buffy loses everything & leaves Sunnydale. There are so many amazing moments in season two, and this boxset is just perfect. Not only do you get all 22 episode, there's tons of special features like commentaries (very informative), fun featurette, episode interviews with creator Joss Whedon (the genius), and a photo gallery. Make sure you add this to your Buffy collection!
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Summary: Awesome second season
Review: This season is full of character development, drama, action, twists, turns, romance, heartbreak Buffy's sophmore season gave us even more then the first and I don't think Writer/Creator/Director Joss Weadon was even trying to be this good. For some reason, the chemistry of the characters and script just seemed to flow so well. There are extrememly happy moments and terrifyingly 'how could they let that happen?' moments. Buffy rules! Get this set!
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Summary: The Modern Doomed Love--Season 2
Review: It seems that either people watch Buffy sometimes, never, or all the time. It seems as though the show has lived through many years of changing television but Season 2 of the Slayer years still seems to take the cake for the very best season contrived by Joss Wedon. The first actual full season of the show gave so many new views of characters shown throughout Season 1 but with some additional cast that makes this season an absolute scorning hot season. Opening with "When She Was Bad", we see a side of Buffy never really apparent, the tease and deeply hurt and angered 16 year old. Two episodes later in "School Hard", Spike enters the storyline and proves to be an interesting and amazing character, the epitome of the bad boy vampire. "Reptile Boy" might emphasize issues between Cordelia and Buffy but a pivotal point comes when Angel and Buffy at the end of the episode actually profess their feelings for one another. The "What's My Line?" couplet of episodes shows a new slayer but the very potency of Spike and his love Drusilla, only laying groundwork for an even more intense rest of the season. "Surprise" actually marks the beginning of the star-crossed lover relationship between Angel and Buffy that ends in a full consumation of their love but also the loss of his soul. This episode stands out so strongly among all the Buffy episodes simply because it is a definate predictor of the deep passions both have for each other and as we all know, one can love a person in one and moment and hate them with the same degree of passion in the next moment. "Innocence" shows the torturous ways of Angel towards Buffy and her inner turmoil that consumes her so heavily. "Passion" shows just that, the very passions that drive each of the characters and this is a particularly sad episode as Giles suffers the loss of his true love, Jennifer Calendar. "I Only Have Eyes For You" seems to hint upon the relationship between Angel and Buffy that neither of them can escape and the "Becoming" set of episodes proves to be one of the best season finale's I've ever seen, chalked full of sacrifices by everyone, including Buffy having to kill Angel just as he regains his soul. Season 2 shows the high and the lowest points of the emotional rollercoaster in each character but its emphasis on the doomed Buffy/Angel relationship just makes it all the more intriguing and amazing.
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Summary: Please people, watch this.
Review: Buffy the Vampire Slayer. What a dumb title! I mean, wasn't that that movie with that chick and that dude? You know what I mean right? Anyway, if you're expecting a bunch of cheesey one liners and alot of attractive people, uh, well, you've come to right place I guess. Let's review kiddies: Master comes, Master makes the Annointed One, Master dies. With me so far? I hope so, because this is where it gets difficult. Angel, he's a vampire. So, naturaly the Slayer should, well, slay him. Oh but back up, he as a soul. Well, he's still a vampire so OFF WITH HIS HEAD!! But he hates being a vampire, and to compound that problem, he's in love with Buffy, and (gulp) she's in love with him.
Now, on to season 2. With the Master gone, who's going to terrorize the Hellmouth? That position is filled very aptly by Spike, a rather nasty vampire with a pention for rhyming and his wickedly drooly girlfriend Drusilla. Between this and Angel and Willow and Xander (her two best friends) she has a hell of time keeping order. But Angel and Buffy, Oh man, what a fantastic, absolutely beautiful love story. William Shakespeare couldn't have written a better love story if he tried. The amazing persision and depth of this love story is so pehnominal almost to the point of hatred. You find yourself turning away from the TV because you can't watch Buffy and Angel struggle and fight their emotions. I personally found myself yelling at the TV and narrowing my eyes when I was watching this. You hate each of them for doing certain things that neither would do in a "normal" relationship. You down right dispise Angel and hate Buffy, but you know they're meant to be together, but do they? Now, on a differant note is Willow and Xander and the inclusion of Oz into their group. Oz, for spoilers sake, is a werewolf who has a crush on Willow, who finally gives up HER crush on Xander. These subplots are a stark contrast between Buffy and Angel's romance and it's rather refreshing to see a not so heavy relationship. So, if you're a fan of TV, or good TV at that, see this, because if you don't, well, you're missing out.
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Summary: great 4 your collection... if there weren't any glitches
Review: Actually, if you are anything of a buffy fan then you wouldn't let a few glitches get in your way. The behind the scenes extras are uninspiring but the episodes remain amazing... and still some of my favourites. My only problem was with the sound... skips, roughness, and feeback were problems that I encountered, but never in the same place. And since my friend had the same problem when borrowing the collection from me, I can't claim computer problems. But if you are willing to take the chance, it is worth it.
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