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Summary: Really great season!!!
Review: Even if it's my less favourtie season of Buffy the vampire slayer it still contains memorable episode that no one can forget. My favourtie episodes were The Harsh Light Of Day(Spike returns as Harmony's "boyfriend" searching for the gem of amara), Fear itself(The second halloween episode of the buffy universe the first was episode Halloween in season 2), Wild at heart(Oz and Willow's relationship comes to an end), the emmy nominated classic episode Hush(The gentlemen comes to town), This year's girl and Who are you(The return of the rogue slayer Faith so well acted by Eliza Dushku), New moon rising(Oz comes back to town) and the season finale Restless. The thing I didn't like about this season is the big bad Adam. I think i'ts my least favourtie big bad. I really liked the master, spike and Drusilla, Mayor and Faith and Glory(I didn't see season 6 and 7)He's the only one that I didn't care when he died. (Even if it's not all the big bad that die) I was really choked when The master, The mayor and Glory died and I didn't care for Adam. I just wanted to see him dead. I really like the addition of Tara(She appeared in Hush for the first time and she's so well acted by Amber Benson). At the beginning of the season I had problem with the fact that Cordelia(Charisma Carpenter) and Angel(David Boreanaz) left the show. But they did a great job even if they weren't there. Anya (Emma Caulfield) is so good in the season. She appeared a little bit in season 3 but now we can really see the developpement of the caracter and her relationship with Xander(Nicholas Brendon). I don't really like Riley(Marc Blucas) but he's okay and sometimes funny. Spike(James Marsters) is really good in this season. But the highpoint of Buffy's season 4 is Willow(Alyson Hannigan). Her character goes in so much developpement(leaving Oz(Seth Green) and begin a new relationship whit Tara)Overall, even if it's not my favourite season I still give a five star cause it's still a really great show and I can't wait for it to come out on DVD. But I anticipate much more Buffy's season 5 but it will be out just in january 2004 so I have to wait a lot more.
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Summary: SEASON 4 OF BUFFY
Review: BUFFY AND THE SCOOBIES ALL GROW A LOT DURING THIS SEASON, ESPECIALLY WILL AND BUFF. FIRST OF ALL, BUFFY STARTS TO DATE GUYS WHO ARE ALIVE...AND WILLOW EXPLORES HER "MAGIC SKILLS WITH TARA" IF YOU'LL CALL IT THAT. I THINK THAT OVERALL, THIS IS ONE OF BUFFYS GREATEST SEASONS. EVEN THOUGH ANGEL AND CORDY ARE GONE...WE HAVE TARA AND ANYA!! LOL
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Summary: Buffy vs. Military
Review: Alright, I know that I have no reason to be reviewing something that hasn't come out yet, but hey, I can't help it.
Buffy season four has one of the best 'story arcs' in televison one man vs. the military working to it's advantage. This season really was a re-write to all things Buffy, with the introduction of Riley, Buffy's only really normal boyfried.
With Riley comes an interesting situation, Buffy is still quite in love with Angel, and after an interesting Angel episode (where Angel becomes human) decides to finally try and move on. She picks this uper military trained guy who works for an orginazation that tries to kill the main charas. in the show several times.
This season also marks Spike's return as a major chara. in the series. He comes back and makes a complete fool of himself. In proper Spike fashion, makin' fun of Angel and everything, which was just funny and all.
Probally the one thing that makes people either love or hate the season is the small little person that was introduced a Wicca group in 'Hush'.
Tara is the one reason that people tend to hate the season, in my mind, except maybe for Riley. I really like to think that she was probally the best thing that had ever happened to Willow. I mean really people, if you've watched Dopplegangland even once, you can see why Joss wrote the episode. He was leading up the end of the Willow/Oz (Die Die) relationship. It was full of foreshadowing to what was to come in Willow's rather twisted love life. And hell, we all know Will's gay right?
Okay, enough ranting. This is a good Buffy vs. Military situation, so I think you all should buy it.
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Summary: This Season ROCKS!!! Whats up with everyone dissing it!!!
Review: Hey, u guys come on this Season Rocked you know it!!! I mean its Buffy for cryin' out loud there is no wrong there, LOL. So some of the characters leave but I mean people do grow up and move on and if you miss Angel and Cordy just buy Angel Season 1 (which I highly recommend, I own that too). But ne wayz, I thought it was awesome and is definately worth spending your money on. Plus, this is the Season when James Marsters or Spike (I'm his biggest fan!!!)becomes a regular on the show, and you know that he is a hottie!!! Well, stay cool, lots of love.
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Summary: The Jossverse goes baroque: how I got hooked on Buffy
Review: When a local TV station in my area first started airing the WB, the only show I wanted to check out was Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I had read good reviews of the show from places like Entertainment Weekly and Cinescape Magazine, and I was searching for something new to watch. I first started watching Buffy around the beginning of the third season, and as you have probably already guessed, it didn't take long for me to get hooked.
During the time the fourth season was airing, I had a routine. I specifically chose a schedule at work where I was off Tuesday through Thursday. I would finish my guitar lessons at the music store where I taught part-time about six thirty or so. Throw my Strat in the trunk, cruise through Tim Horton's for an Iced Cappuchino, and home at eight. Every Tuesday, like clockwork. After half a year of this, I realized something: I was addicted to Buffy in a way no television show had ever managed before.
The fourth season is widely regarded as the worst season of Buffy on the Internet. Because of this, I believe everybody is crazy.
Why? Why do I revere the fourth season above all others, when the majority of my fellow Buffyphiles see it as an embarrassment to be forgotten?
The answer, I think, lies in the very theme of the season - change. The loss of Angel and Cordelia, and later Oz, shook the show's formula to its roots, not to mention the shift from high school to college, from the library to Giles' place, from awkward Xander-piney Willow to blossoming funky-bohemian sexual awakening Willow. We were comfortable with the way things were! After two stellar seasons, Joss was changing everything! If it ain't broke, don't fix it!
But as I think back on it now, The Joss knew what he was doing. These actors were beginning to visibly age, and he knew he couldn't keep them in high school forever. A shake-up was just what the series needed to keep it fresh. And a shake-up we got.
First of all, every one of the Scoobies was removed from a comfortable existence and thrown into uncharted territory. Buffy without Angel. Xander out of adolescence and into early manhood. Willow - holy smokes, Willow! - first losing Oz, and then discovering something extraordinary about herself. And Giles, the fired Watcher and librarian who becomes Mr. Mid-Life Crisis Guy. All the Scoobies suddenly had to deal with transitions, never an easy time.
Next, the tone, the very feel of the show changed as well. Joss has said before the fourth season was the beginning of the show's "Baroque" era, and how right he is. Starting with "Hush," the show's first true event, and continuing through altered reality episodes like "Who Are You" and "Superstar," the show takes on an almost palpable air of foreboding and unreality, as the audience begins to notice hints that something is coming. ("You think you know...what you are...what's to come. You haven't even begun.") This tone, which lingered on through the first seven episodes of season five, may just be my single most enjoyable entertainment experience ever. I remember watching the last four episodes ("New Moon Rising," "The Yoko Factor," "Primeval," "Restless") over and over again, and I still do.
The key to enjoying the fourth season is understanding what it means: It's the turning point for the whole series.
The fourth season still has many of my favorite moments from the series:
Xander mangles Yoda's speech from The Phantom Menace.
Parker puts the moves on an apparently unsuspecting Willow, and gets a big surprise.
CaveBuffy responds to Parker's heartfelt apology.
"Actual Size."
"The Big Bad is back, and this time..." ZAP!
"Maybe you're trying too hard."
Xander and Harmony, locked in mortal combat.
Giles uses transparencies.
Willow meets a fellow Wicca.
"Because it's wrong.""You can't just say Librum Incendere and..." Fwoosh! Thunk!
Spike attempts to inspire Xander and Willow into mayhem.
Tara blows out a candle.
"You want some Fightin' Pants, Buff? I can get you some Fightin' Pants!"
The Battle of the Initiative, and the Charge of the Scoobies - my favorite Buffy action set piece.
Season 4 saw Joss' favorite running gag begin, and it goes like this: If you're a villain in Sunnydale, don't EVER make a Villain Speech.
And finally, last but not least, Xander's foreboding, sinister, sexy, terrifing dream, which still haunts me, and makes me think Xander might be in for a hard time of it before the series ends. ("You can't protect yourself from...some stuff.")
These are just a few, I know. But I just wanted to get the point across. Those of you who haven't seen it - buy it, watch it, remember it. There are events in the fourth season which are still resonating in the series to this day, and a close study of this season over time will only enrich your enjoyment of subsequent seasons. Those of you who have seen season 4 and don't appreciate it for what it is, buy this set and give it another chance.
Buffy is set to end after episode 144, which makes the episodes from "Hush" through "Restless" the halfway point of the series. Once the final episode, "Chosen," is finally aired, this story of Buffy, Xander and Willow transitioning from adolescence to adulthood will go down in TV history as one of the medium's most remarkable accomplishments - a show that frankly, honestly and always with hope examined what growing up really is; and it did it all with the conceit of a teen-age girl beating the snot out of vampires.
And the fourth season, especially "Restless," is the turning point where the Scoobies begin to realize their journey is just beginning. Don't miss it.
"You think you know...what you are...what's to come. You haven't even begun."
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Summary: Tara is great
Review: Tara is my favorite chericter in Buffy history, and perhaps all of telivision, here we meet her and that is why i love this season, this and season five have good episodes which delve deeper into her chericter. "Hush" her intro, "New Moon Rising" (i love this episode, dispite how much i loved Seth Green on the show, because while all Wiccans aren't lesbians, i felt it added realism for Willow to discover that new side to herself.)Her appearence in "Restless" was excellent also. In season five, "Family" shows where Tara came from, and helps cement her as part of the Scoobies.
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Summary: yay for season four!!!
Review: season four, the first appearance of my favorite character, tara! and in "hush" no less! possibly the best episode ever. it gave me the willeys major! ive been waiting for this set for what feels like forever. now i cant wait until we get to season six!
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Summary: Don't Believe the Negativity
Review: First of all I happen to think that "Buffy, The Vampire Slayer" is the best show in the history of television. With that being said the 4th Season isn't the best of the series but it is far from the worse. Its a transition year from high school to college, plus the deletion of Angel and Cordelia from the cast, which I think was a good thing. Spike is a much more interesting character than Angel could ever be and Anya well is Anya. The only disappointing loss is Oz, I still miss him on the show, but with his departure we get to see Willow go in a new direction and even though it was tough at first, it was done gradually so we got to like and get to know Tara just like the rest of the scoobies. Season Four is also a year of great individual episodes; Something Blue, Hush, This Year's Girl, Who Are You, Restless, etc. There is no all time great Big Bad in year four and there is of course the bland Riley, but season four is a must for any Buffy fan or a curious fan. Because how many shows out there can make you laugh, cry, and think all in one episode. Buffy is unique and all 7 seasons have something special about it.
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Summary: A good year, really it was ...
Review: It has become too easy for some critics to point to season four as the beginning of the decline for BTVS, because of the departure of the Angel and Cordellia characters. But there really is no justification for this. The story arcs did suffer a bit due to Josh W.'s being distracted by too many projects. But some of the best stories of the entire series came this year, including Hush, the Thanksgiving ep (what was it called?) and others. James S. (Spike) balanced his clown/body guard/unrequited love role perfectly. And most importantly, Alyson H. (Willow) had not become the huge, boring anchor on the whole story line she became in later years.
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Summary: This was the appetizer for the Shark
Review: Season 4 is where "Buffy" jumped the shark....however, "Hush" cannot be ignored as one of the finest hours of TV ever. "Restless", "Primeval" and the Faith episodes are pretty good as well. But the rest of the season felt as if something was missing or off.
It seems that the college experience was avoided because the writers were afraid the show would become "Felicity the Vampire Slayer". I can understand that but what we got was boring villains and the beginnings of some serious character assassination.
Whenever FX shows the reruns, I always quit watching after "Hush" airs, because it's pretty much downhill from there.
However, if you are a diehard BTVS fan, you'll agree, a bad episode of "Buffy" is still better than most of the other dreck on TV. (Reality TV --- I'm looking at you...)
Season 4 is the appetizer, the following seasons, 5-7, were salad, main course and dessert for the shark.
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