Buffy, Season Seven Villain (SPOILERS: Do Not Read if You Are English)

Her latest kick is "I'm the Slayer"...

It's been theorized that the shape-changing villain is umm sort of the opposite of whatever the Slayer is -- i.e., the other face of whatever force became that first Aboriginal Slayer.

B-b-but I want the spoilers, terrestrial British TV has only started Series Six. Willow hasn't gone EEEEVIL just yet. Anti-matter uberslayers sound like the shark's jumped, and what's a Gilmore Girl, a victim of Gary Gilmore?

Season Six starts and ends well, but the mid-section is this long and awful Magic Anonymous thing for Willow, it's absolutely terrible. There is definitely a shark-jumping element to Season Seven, but Buffy sort of skirts this because it's more about itself than its plots -- the sheer weight of history and constant referencing of previous events can make rather slight or ridiculous events seem less shark-jumpy than they otherwise might be.

The Gilmore Girls = this. Cute woman + adorable clever girl + witty banter like Aaron Sorkin writing for Lifetime + as mentioned, very tight jeans.

There need to be more shows that are strange flat-Earth fantasies about adorable women and girls living cute lives full of snappy banter.

The only thing I have to say about the villain is I have a feeling it might be related to the villain this season on Angel. Just a hunch...

I'm with nicole - the writing seems a lot better. though I wasn't as down on the last season as some people seem to be.

Momus's bear being groped by a meaty man...

I'm convinced Kennedy is around partly as Willow's Scott Hope and partly so that there's someone who dies in the last episode whose name we remember.

- Geir Hongro on ILX
- someone taking pitchfork/thumb to Xander

And now you're sniping at Kennedy? (Sorry.)

When the DVDs come around they should so some sort of Seasons Six and Seven combo-pack that cuts the magic bits from Six and then tacks on an abridged just-the-facts shot through Seven.

(I originally typed 'Caleb' thus proving by absent-mindedness that they are one and the same.)

And yeah, Faith making the Mayor more interesting is a good point -- I think the Mayor is still my favorite Big Bad.

Of course, sorry Carey; I loved that line!

This season has had a few really brilliant individual episodes but the overall arc is weak, especially compared to how totally rad Angel has been.

I still watch just to see what happens, but I forget why until I watch some of the DVDs for S1-S3. Chemistry, wit, interesting plotlines. Is it just me, or do they accomplish/do about 50% less per episode these days?

Carey if you have the one of Anya in a bunny suit I'm buying!!

A LONG UNCOMFORTABLE SILENCE
ME: Those jeans are a little tight.
MY MOM: That's for sure.

Well, see, the joke's on me because my wishes tend to be granted in the typical monkey's paw stylee. The only ones that tend to come true are the ones I'm not entirely serious about.

the series wasnt as bad as people seemed to suggest, though i thought the very finale was a bit lame (compared to the other finales, at least)

spike doing the laser chest thing worked well, that fitted in, but why were the ubervamps so easy to kill off, or even fend off? just because the potentials had become slayers? but look at the trouble buffy had with the first ubervamp. now she had that scythe thing, so it was ok that she could kill them, but the potentials were using the very same weapons that were bouncing off the ubervamp earlier in the season, and they were popping them like balloons!

buffy seemed to have her arms folded for about 60% of this series.

i dont think caleb was that bad as a character, not as bad as others have suggested anyway

as many have said, xander had become pointless, as andrew had taken over his role. andrews rise to prominence was handled well, as in S6 he seemed the weakest character of the geek trio. xander had become progressively more scantimonious and irritating over the previous few seasons, so it was good that andrew got more of a role in his place

i wonder if it was just one series too far though, even though it was enjoyable, it just felt like one too far (even 6 felt like this a tiny bit)

yes, the potentials were terrible, no wonder no one has a good word to say about them. who even can remember their names?

i didnt think it made sense, when they did the choosing faith over buffy thing, it seemed too sudden

it also didnt make sense why caleb didnt finish buffy off when he had the chance. did they need her to pull the scythe from the stone? in which case, why didnt he go at her as soon as she had pulled it out?

and, the seal was totally unguarded the whole time, why the convuluted rituals involved in opening it, when at the end, they just cut themselves a little to open it. why didnt caleb just kill someone and open the seal and let a million ubervamps out earlier on?

it just felt a little bit james bond, the way the first had a million chances to knock them all out but didnt. and the way that the ubervamps were so weak at the end. and if they were going to come out the hellmouth in the daytime, why not demolish the roof so that the sun would go straight onto them and vaporise them?

and now, presumably, all the women in the world are super strong, which might make a large difference in how the world is run!

the running along the buildings and jumping on the bus was cartoonish and stupid

i think, overall, the last series was fun, if maybe a step too far, but was let down by the weak finale

the 2nd hellmouth in cleveland was a nice touch though!

Caught a rerun of the ep where Principal Wood tried to kill Spike with Giles help, that was pretty good.