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Buffy the Vampire Slayer - The Complete Third Season

Buffy the Vampire Slayer - The Complete Third Season

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The very best season of Buffy--do NOT miss it!
Review: I am not sure if it's the fact that there is a collection in this season of every great character (including a terrific one episode appearance by Spike) but you also have the best and most villain created for the show--The Mayor of Sunnydale who wants to ascend and becoma a giant snake. This is the best show on television and this is the season that cemented that.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Season 3 deserves WAY more than 5 stars!
Review: I am so excited to learn of this DVD coming out January 7, 2003! Only three more months until everyone can get their hands on this great season, on DVD! Now everyone agrees with me when I say that season 3 was the best season of Buffy by far. It had the introduction of Wesley, Faith and the Mayor (a fave villain) And Faith (the great Eliza Dushku) is one of the reasons season 3 is the best.

The reason why this is the greatest season is because of this:

* Every single episode was great! And it added something to the season, unlike the monster episodes of season 2.

* It's the last year of High-School and the best.

* The new bad girl slayer is introduced.

* Willow and Xander kiss, breaking up Cordelia and Xander.

* DO I REALLY HAVE -2- SAY ANYMORE!!!!!

This season is great and I will be at BestBuy exactly when it opens at 10 AM ready to buy it January 7, 2003!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: haven't seen DVD yet, but can review Buffy season 3
Review: Season 3 of Buffy was debatedly one of the best seasons. It is the scoobies last year at Sunnydale high, and a new slayer is in town. This season, like the others, is incredibly well written (how could it not be w/ Joss and company working on it?). This season has the fullest cast of all seasons. It is Angel (David Boreanaz) and Cordy's (Charisma Carpentar) last season. We see more of Oz (Seth Green). Faith (Eliza Dushku) enters the cast. Anya (Emma Caulfield) comes in this season too. This season is a set up for the Scoobies starting college in season 4 and Angel and Cordy making their big move to L.A. and to Joss' spin-off Angel.This season is filled with more humor and drama then we had previously seen. I am being vague, so as not to give anything away to those who have not seen it. This is a really great season, and like the last 2 seasons DVD's I'me sure we will see some great extra features, graphics, and interviews. I highly recommmend it!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Season 3
Review: As the most anticipated season of one of television's finest shows, season 3 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer is sure to please. This season was a roller coaster ride of emotions and excitement. With plot twists and turns like never before, these 22 episodes helped define and give life to the characters we had come to know and love. And if the DVD set for Season 2 was any indication, then the new DVD extras are sure to satiate even the most die-hard Buffy fan.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The Best Season
Review: While a lot of folks hold the second season in highest esteem, what with the whole Buffy/Angel vs. Spike/Drusilla romance comparison, I have always felt that first and foremost Buffy the Vampire Slayer was about High School and all the confusion, competition, stress and sheer exuberant craziness that institution brings to mind. It is the one universal experience for almost all BTVS's viewers, and I can't think of any TV show that captured the High School experience better. (That is why I am so optiomistic aboutv Season Seven, which returns Buffy and the viewers to Sunnydale High...but I digress).

That is what is so wonderful about Season Three. It is the whole High School package. You want sexual frustration? You got Angel and Buffy forced into chastity by a gypsy curse. You want sexual confusion? How about Willow's and Xander's semi-betrayal of their respective Significant Others? For teenage aangst, there's Xander's walk on the wild side and Jonathan's flirtation with despair. You want bad gir;s, bad men, and bad karma? You want Alyson Hannigan in a leather teddy or David Boreanaz shirtless? You want a prom to bring tears to your eyes? You ever dream about blowing up your high school? It's ALL here.

And then there's the cast. This is the last season to feature David Boreanaz and Charisma Carpenter, before they moved on to Los Angeles. This is the season that gave us the first appearances of Alexis Denisof as Wesley the Wimp, Emma Caulfield as Anyanka the Vengeance Demon, the explosive Eliza Dushku as the Slayer-You-Love-to-Hate Faith, and best of all the most beaitifully layered depiction of evil in Harry Groener's tour de force as the mayor. These are moements to savor.

And that's what DVD is all about, I feel. If you only intend to watch a show once, why bother with the capital outlay? There's always reruns on FX and rental from Blockbuster. But Season Three can be enjoyed over and over again, and that's what merits a f-star rating IMHO.

Here are the episodes:

1. Anne - Buffy tries to hide from her family, friends, and self, but just when she thought she was out, they drag her back in.

2. Dead Man's Party - How tough is it to apologize for running out on friends and loved ones? Harder than fighting zombies, that's for sure.

3. Faith, Hope & Trick - Faith and Trick make their first appearances, and Angel reaturns

4. Beauty and the Beasts - Oz the Werewolf is a murder suspect.

5. Homecoming - Buffy vs. Cordelia for Homecoming Queen.

6. Band Candy - Giles and Joyce get jiggy and Kristine Sutherland and Tony Head get to have some serious fun screen time in this personal favorite of mine,

7. Revelations -Buffy's secret is over as the Scooby Gang learn of Angel's resurrection.

8. Lovers Walk - Spike returns to moon about Drusilla; yje Oz-Willow-Xander-Cordelia relationship hits meltdown.

9. The Wish - The first appearance of Emma Caulfield as Anyanka who grants Cordelia's wish that Buffy never came to Sunnydale, creating an alternate reality in Alyson Hannigan gets a makeover from hell. A classic.

10. Amends - A bizarre twist on A Christmas Carol, with Angel tortured by visiting spoirits.

11. Gingerbread - Joyce goes on a witch hunt....literally, and a supporting character gets transformed into a rat for three more seasons.

12. Helpless - Buffy's 18th birthday brings a nasty present from Giles and the Watcher's Copuncil.

13. The Zeppo - Xander is put into perspective for himself and the audience, abd Nicholas Brendan takes center stage for one of the few times.

14. Bad Girls - Wesley arribes to ot fussbudget Giles, and Faith seduces Buffy with the Dark Side of the Force, and with one irrevocable act of violenmce be begin the countdown to the season finale.

15. Consequences - Buffy vs. the Mayor for Faith's soul, and Buffy doesn't win.

16. Doppelgängland - Alyson Hannigan gets to play opposite her self in more ways than once in a sequel to The Wish.

17. Enemies - Faith and the Mayor getvdeeper into cahgoots.

18. Earshot - This episode was postponed due to the Columbine shootings, because of its theme of plans to murder high school students, and Danny Strong gets his first opportunity to make Jonathan more than just a face in the crowd.

19. Choices - Buffy and the Gang contemplate life after High School.

20. The Prom - Buffy and Angel gace some heard truths leading to the spin-off series and Buffy meets the third member of the future triumvirate of eveil dweebs.

21. Graduation Day - Also originally delayed because of Columbine, the whole Faith/Mayor/Ascension storyline reaches a climax in the season finale to end all season fineales. If the show had been cancelled at that point, I could have lived with that decision, so neat is the wrap-up.

Now THAT's entertainment!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: 3rd time's a charm.
Review: Season three: How can the cast of Buffy even hope to top the glorious second season? Well, for starters the very first episode is great. In "ANNE", still hurting from the events that occurred at the end of season 2, Buffy tries to forget her past and lives in another town working a waitress job until a girl recognizes her and asks for her help. Buffy realizes who and what she is and returns to Sunnydale, where the Scoobies have been filling in for the Slayer's absence. Then there is the addition of a new Slayer, Faith (Eliza Dushku...remember her in True Lies? All grown up!!) who appears in Sunnydale as a powerful ally for the Buffy and the scoobies. This is short-lived though, as she soon becomes one of their greatest threats. The foreshadowing of plotlines in the second season become apparent as this season's villain is introduced...none other than the mayor of Sunnydale, who is attempting to ascend into a true/pure demon.

This season boasts many of the show's strongest episodes such as "The Wish", where Cordelia unknowingly makes a wish to a vengeance demon (Anyanka, who becomes the Anya we all love to laugh at later) and wishes that Buffy never came to Sunnydale. This episode is grand, as we see an alternate reality where Buffy left California and never stopped the Master from rising and as a result, he succeeded in opening the Hellmouth. Truly one of the better episodes. We also are given a taste of foreshadowing in later episodes...Buffy's sister Dawn (to come in season 5) is mentioned in a glimmer of dialogue that will remain meaningless until two years later (can you find the episode? Hint...listen to both Faith and Buffy talk in the later epsiodes). Faith is terrific as Buffy's nemesis, a Slayer just like her. Oh, did I mention Angel returns from a hell dimension as well?

The scoobies get their own star time as well. In "THE ZEPPO", Xander proves that he is more than just the weak part of the group, adept at getting them donuts and not much else. In "THE WISH" and "DOPPLEGANGLAND", we get to see a Vamp Willow...very interesting and two of the season's best episodes. This season also brings us more of the Watcher's Council, the mysterious group that Giles works for including Wesley, who later leaves to aid Angel and Cordelia in Los Angeles in the spin-off show Angel. And finally, we get to see the Scoobies graduate in a very typical Sunnydale fashion...with a huge battle. It was hard to top season two, but this season is more of Joss Whedon's masterpiece of television; let people and critics shun it...we all know great TV when we see it.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Best Buffy Season!
Review: BtVS season three is an absolute must-see for all Buffy fans! It's probably the best season out of all six that have been aired so far (as of 10/01/02), and the dynamics of the characters are absolutely stunning. My friends, Joss Whedon has done it again.

Don't miss this season! Even if you only watch it to see Faith (Eliza Dushku)!!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The Genius of Joss Whedon (Possible Spoilers)
Review: Season 3 of Buffy is the show at its finest. We are introduced to many memorable characters such as Mayor Richard Wilkins III, Mr. Trick, Faith, Anya, and Wesley Wyndam-Pryce.

Joss Whedon, the show's creator and executive producer, continues to write the most incredible episodes of the season such as Amends, Dopplegangland, and Graduation Day (Parts 1 and 2).

The highlights of this season include Band Candy, in which the adults of the town proceed to act like teenagers due to candy bars, The Wish, in which the demon Anyanka grants Cordelia's wish that Buffy never came to Sunnydale creating an alternate reality in which vampires rule, Dopplegangland, in which vampire Willow is brought forth from an alternate reality to modern day Sunndydale, and the climactic season finale Graduation Day in which the Buffy must rely on friends to help defeat this season's "Big Bad."

This season has just as many, if not more, twists and turns than the previous two seasons. One of the big twists is that someone close to Buffy will turn against her and attack her friends causing her yet another hardship to face. If one thing can be said about the show, it is that it always keeps you guessing.

Add this DVD set to your collection. You won't be disappointed.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Best Buffy Season EVER
Review: This has to be easily the best Buffy season ever. Well ok, maybe this and season 2. The heartbreak during this season is gut wrenching, and the stories are incredible. Buffy finally is forced to grow up for the first time. And Joss really comes into his own. This show for the first few seasons was the BEST writing on television. If you only get one DVD set, get this one.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: They did it again
Review: Well, the creators of buffy the vampire slayer did it agin. They gave the public another great season with more monsters, and more twists. We are introduced to another great actress, Eliza Dushku, another vampire slayer and a hot one at that. Also, the usual gang is back better than ever and we get to see some of them as cool vampires. Also Willow's interest in magic still grows as the season goes on. We are also introduced to anya is this season. All in all........ this is a great season and ranks very close to season 2.


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