Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Pt 1

Last night, I watched the final episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. After nine months of watching 7 seasons of Buffy (and 4 seasons of Angel), it's finally over. I think it's time to over analyze it. :) While I generally am pretty careful to keep my reviews spoiler free, this one will have tons of spoilers, so beware. I'm going to go over it season by season, so if you've only watched through Season 3, don't read the section for Season 4 (unless you really don't care). This post will cover the first 3 seasons. Four through seven are coming tomorrow.

I'm sure this will go totally overboard and ridiculous, but it'll be a ton of fun. Let's get started with...


Season One

I wasn't a huge fan of the first season. It was pretty cheesy, and it lacked the story lines that are so great in the later seasons. Yeah, there was the Master, but he wasn't all that bad of a Big Bad compared to later seasons.

Some good things about Season One were Cordelia (even though she is incredibally shallow, she was pretty awesome), mysterious Angel (remember, we don't even know who or what he is until half way through the season), and the Good Ol' Scooby Gang. Only in Seasons 1 and 2 do we really have the traditional gang (Giles, Buffy, Zander, Willow, Cordy, and sometimes Angel) meeting in the library.

Season Two

Season two was much better than Season 1 in my opinion.  We have Kendra, and we first meet Spike and Drusilla. Oz shows up for the first time, and Giles (sort of) dates Jenny Calender. The story lines got much better, and the show began the switch away from it's monster of the week format. Angel's death at the end was very dramatic.


Season Three

Poor, poor Amy.

This season is probably my favorite. We still have the classic Scooby Gang (Giles, Buffy, Cordy, Buffy, Willow, Zander, and Angel) plus we have some other great characters joining in such as Oz. Plus, Faith, Wesley, and Anya all find their beginnings in this Season. The Mayor may be my favorite Big Bad of the show, particularly after he pulls in Faith. Angel's leaving is sad. Here are some extra pictures to commemorate a great season:

One of the best Cordy-Buffy moments.

This was Jonathon's 1st episdode!