Buffy the Vampire Slayer - The Complete Third Season

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Summary: The Greatest Show of All Time, Pt. 3
Review: Buffy's third season is thrilling and fun. It does not resonate, perhaps, quite as deeply as the season before it or others to come, but that is only due to the power of those other seasons, not for any fault of the third.

By the third season, you know and love the main cast of characters, and they come fully into their own, here. The overarching storyline involving the nefarious Mayor and the rival slayer, Faith, is a masterwork, but the third season really shines in its stand-alone stories. The Wish, Band Candy and, above all, The Zeppo are wonderful little treats in a season filled with fun and engaging episodes. There is nary a misstep in the season (well... perhaps Beauty and the Beasts or Dead Man's Party) and it will leave you hungry for more.

Rating:
Summary: yeah
Review: This was a great season, 3rd best in my boat! Season 2 being the best and 4 being second!

Go Mayor! Best acting for and villian save Angelus!

Graduation Day prt 1-2 was horrible though. Yeah, it's a tv show, but the mayor looked so fake and lame. He died with a whimper. The ending is why I can't rate this better.

Rating:
Summary: Simply the best
Review: I could go on and on about why people should own and watch the Buffy series over and over - great writing, acting, action, humor, a willingness to go outside the box on a regular basis, and a treatment of good and evil that is far deeper and more real than the standard good-guys fight bad-guys dish that hollywood serves up with regularity. Let's just say that this is the best series that I have ever seen on TV. Season 1 was just good. By the end of season 2 it was great and stayed that way through season 5. Seasons 6 & 7 got a bit dark for many people, but still broke new ground and took us to new and interesting places. I am in awe of the amount of creativity that poured into this show over the years. DVD is the perfect medium to experience this show, with no annoying interruptions and far, far more character development over a 22 episode season than is possible in any feature film. This is the best entertainment there is. Watch it. Savor it.

Rating:
Summary: great season
Review: Anne- 9/10

Dead Man's Party- 7/10

Faith, Hope and Trick- 3/10

Beauty and the Beasts- 8/10



Homecoming- 8/10

Band Candy- 9/10

Revelations- 8/10

Lover's Walk- 3/10



The Wish- 10/10

Amends- 8/10

Gingerbread- 5/10



Helpless- 8/10

The Zeppo- 7/10

Bad Girls- 4/10

Consequences- 7/10



Doppelgangland- 10/10

Enemies- 9/10

Earshot- 9/10

Choices- 10/10



The Prom- 7/10

Graduation Day, part 1- 7/10

Graduation Day, part 2- 9/10




The best episodes are: Doppelgangland, The Wish, Choices, Anne, Enemies, Band Candy, Graduation Day, part 2, Earshot

The worst episodes are: Lover's Walk, Faith Hope and Trick

Rating:
Summary: The pinnacle of a landmark show.
Review: If the second season had the most spectacular highs in Buffy's seven years, the third had the distinction of being consistently the best. Only two really weak episodes early in the season ("Dead Man's Party" and "Beauty and the Beasts") really falter, and the bulk of season 3 is classic, beautiful television.

Season 3 had the last truly great villain Buffy would face: Mayor Richard Wilkins III. The Mayor was a charming, charismatic figure, and his varied plots and henchmen kept the show much fresher than any of the big bads in later seasons. And it also gave us one of the show's best recurring figures, in the form of the vampire slayer Faith. Eliza Dushku made her sensuous, capable, and a believably dark counterpart to Buffy.

We keep up, of course, with our favorite Scoobies; in fact, this season is probably the most packed with classic characters. We see the slow parting of the classic Buffy / Angel romance, as Sarah Michelle Gellar and David Boreanaz keep sparking up the screen even though, as these things go, their relationship is doomed. The relationships between Willow (Alyson Hannigan) and Oz (Seth Green), and Xander (Nicholas Brendon) and Cordelia (Charisma Carpenter) are all explored in new and interesting ways, particularly in the stellar episode "Lovers' Walk." Anthony Stewart Head remains excellent as Giles, and is given a wonderful comic foil in Wesley (Alexis Denisof), who would go on to become the most fascinating character on the spinoff Angel. The cast continues to grow interesting, which is quite a feat given the fairly large ensemble that had accrued.

If the character development is top-notch, it shares that prize with the episodes. Season 3 is fairly heavy on the Mayor arc, but it remains in the background for a series of amazing stories: "Lovers' Walk" with the ever-wonderful Spike (James Marsters), "The Wish" introducing future regular Anya (Emma Caulfield), "Amends" going deep into Angel's soul, "The Zeppo" making certain that Xander is cool once and for all, "Doppelgangland" featuring the wonderful Evil Vampire Willow from "The Wish," and "Earshot" giving Buffy a wonderfully comic glimpse into the minds of those around her. The balance maintained between all of these excellent stand-alones and the larger story with the Mayor's Ascension is a feat I'm not sure was ever repeated on any TV drama.

As I said above, both the Mayor and Faith are delights to watch; when this season is in its main arc, it remains entertaining and thrilling. Faith's fall from grace, and the scope and ingenuity of the Mayor's plots, are both handled wonderfully. The Mayor is the only villain in Buffy or Angel to ever give Angelus a run for his money.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, in many ways, heralded a golden age in television drama. Its intellect, ingenuity, and excellence remain unsurpassed. The third season - Buffy's peak - is essential viewing for anyone who's even casually interested in this landmark show.

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Summary: My set had 2-disc #4's in the box...watch for this!
Review: For some reason my set had 2 of the disc #4 in the set. I went to watch disc 6 and put it in, but really it was disc 4. I am planning on exchanging it, but it really stinks to go for the next disc and have it be one you already watched. Oh well, I exchanged it at the store, and now I have all discs. That being said...

Without a doubt, season 3 is one of Buffy's best seasons. Every episode is fun, enjoyable, makes you think, and keeps you interested. The addition of Eliza Dushku to a cast that was fantastic even before she came, is wonderful. She plays off of Angel, and Buffy particularly well, but also sparks great energy with everyone else she interacts with on the show as well.

The plots are strong, the episodes solid, and the Mayor as the villain is ingenious, one of the best villains the show had throughout it's 7-year run.

Things are tied up in the end, and the stage is set for Angel to branch out on his own, to his own show, while still leaving some things unsaid, to make room for crossovers between his show and BTVS later on.

All in all a wonderful season, and a must-own for all die hard Buffy and Angel fans out there.


Rating:
Summary: BUFFY TREATS
Review: FAITH, is a attractive, Slayer who is...born to slay.
But Buff, is the master of Slaying.
Angel, is the cutest and adorable,VaMp, who is..bound to be a Vampire hunter. by being one himself.
and This season, goes rockkie as buff, and faith go one on one in fight.
and cordy, tries to take Angel, as all the time.
and Angel truns to Angelus, and grabs her neck.
this is the right thing he's doing.
She deserves that!
This season ROCKZ!!!