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Buffy the Vampire Slayer - The Complete Fourth Season

Buffy the Vampire Slayer - The Complete Fourth Season

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A Groundbreaking Series Produces Another Great Season
Review: A lot of fans & critics claim that this is where the series started to go down-hill. I don't think that is the case. The show simply changed, and some people don't like change. Buffy, Willow, and Oz went off to college. While Xander stayed in his parents' basement and wandered aimlessly from job to job. Lastly, Angel and Cordelia left the show and headed for L.A.

In fact, this season saw two of the series' funniest episodes ("Pangs & "A New Man") and two of the series' overall best episodes (the Emmy-Nominated "Hush", and "Restless", both written and directed by series creator Joss Whedon).

We see the debuts of Tara, Riley; and the returns of Spike, Ethan Rayne, Faith. The main villain for the season, Adam, does not make his first full appearance until episode thirteen, but the debut is worth the wait. Adam is a human/demon/robot hybrid. He is smart, strong, well-spoken, and an interesting villain.

The main arc focuses on The Initiative (a government funded military team who fights and studies demons) and their interaction with Buffy & Adam. Along the way Buffy and Riley get together, Xander and Anya become a couple, and Willow finds someone else after Oz makes his dramatic exit.

The last episode of the season, "Restless", is a poignant and unique end to a fun story-arc. We see how the characters have changed throughout their three-and-a-half years by way of their dreams (masterfully written and directed by Whedon).

The commentaries on selected episodes are informative and funny.
Buy this DVD box-set of you are interested in great fiction (just don't buy the upcoming "Smallville" box-set, that show is unwatchable)

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Spike is NOT the reason why this season was great!
Review: Let's get one thing straight. Spike is/has been/will always be a minor character. They tried to get him "in with buffy", but that failed. That is because he complements strong actors like Geller & Boreanaz, but when brought into the forefront, he fails.

This is an amazing season, in spite of Adam & the Initiative which becomes a minor sequence in the whole season. The characters become the most lovable in this season, especially when they bring Anya in as a full time cast member.

Hush, Something Blue, and the halloween episode stand out brilliantly of course. But I found when watching the entire season that every single episode had something about it that I loved. There was an interaction between characters, or a scene where we see quality acting that brings the characters closer to me emotionally, or even a joke uttered that made me laugh out loud.

I highly recommend this season. Alot of people think the first three seasons were golden and untouchable. That is somewhat true, but this season still had witty writing, and just wait!!!!....because Season 5 brings in the best villian of them all, with the best season finale (imho). Bravo Joss & Co.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: gold
Review: great season buffs golden year this has perect episodes i love the funny new character anna but i hate riley bufys cheating botyfriend but when angle pays a visit they still have the lust for each other great season the other new charcter tara is cool and mysteriouis

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Buffy near it's best
Review: I firmly believe that Buffy's best seasons were seasons 3 and 5. That being said season 4 has some damn fine episodes. The wonderfully silent Hush has the scariest monsters that Sunnydale has ever seen. Wo Are You is how the writing on Buffy whould always be and Superstar is so quirky and fun that it helps you forget the rather bad back story of the initiative and Adam.

Of course this season will always be remembered for the start of the wonderful realtionship between long standing scooby Willow Rosenberg and newcomer witch Tara Maclay. A relationship that is indeed worth watching from the very first spark in Hush.

Enjoy.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Aspect ratios for region 1 and region 2
Review: Just a quick bit of info for all you videophiles. This Buffy DVD set has the typical US television 4:3 aspect ratio. The region 2 DVD uses the widescreen 16:9 aspect ratio. Of course the region 2 DVD costs more and you need to have a DVD player which will let you play region 2 DVDs.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Season 4 Rocks!
Review: I may only be 13, but I know what I like! My dad first introduced me to Buffy 3 years ago this Halloween! I've loved it ever since! My favorite episodes include Once More, With Feeling, Hush (4th Season), and Tabula Rasa. I think this DVD set is great for any true Buffy fan! It's perfect as a gift for a friend or family member. Hush was nominated for an Emmy and is the best out of season 4. Season 4 is also great, because so much happens to Buffy; she meets Riley, battles monsters, demons, and vampires, and defeats Adam. This season is definately one of the best. The season ender, Restless, is very interesting! Buffy and gang dream about the first slayer killing them. Their dreams are funny and interesting. In Hush, everyone loses their voice and Buffy and Riley find themselves fighting side by side. In an interview with Joss, he said that the scariest monsters/demons he created were the freaks from Hush. Also in this season, Professor Walsh is killed, and OZ leaves causing Willow to do a spell to make her will done on the episode Something Blue. During Something Blue, Giles goes blind, Amy turns back into a human then into a rat again, Xander becomes a demon magnet, and Buffy and Spike think they are in love and decide to get married! The episode is filled with hilarious quotes you are sure to be reciting later on. This DVD set is majorly awesome and I highly reccomend it!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Underrated!!!
Review: Contrary to popular belief, this is not a bad season. This season is full of good writing and has some of the shows best episodes, such as "Hush" (albeit so extremely overrated but still a great episode), the 2 parter "This Year's Girl" and "Who Are You?" that shows Faith's return from her coma, "The I in Team", showing Buffy's failed attempt to joined the Intiative, among other's. The only episode I didn't really like was the finale, "Restless." It wasn't a bad episode, and it greatly foreshadowed the following season(s), just compared to other finale's it fell short. So all in all, this isn't the greatest season of Buffy, but every single episode is well written and has good story. Adam is by far the worst "big bad", but that doesn't mean he's bad. I mean, come on, if you ran into him alone in the woods, you'd be a little bit freaked out, too.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Buffy Season 4 Review
Review: I think that even though Buffy no longer features Angel as a cast member, its cool that season 4 intertwines with some of the Angel season 1 episodes and that Angel makes a guest appearance in Pangs which is probably the best episode next to Restless.
I also think season 4 shows what Giles is really like when he's out of a job.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: the best of the best
Review: this is one of my favorites, riley as boyfriend of buffy , faith comeback, the first appear of the first slayer, giles becoming a "new man", let me tell you this is defenetly one you have to have.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: It just keeps getting better
Review: This season of Buffy has some masterpiece episodes in it, including the Emmy-nominated "Hush", and the funny, Giles-centered "A New Man." This is also the season where Willow and Tara fall in love and we add Spike as an involuntary member of the Scooby gang with some of the funniest lines of the show. A must-own for Buffy Fans everywhere.


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