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Lackluster with too many speeches.
One of the original appeals of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series--aside from the fantasy and girl power--was the quick wit of the dialogue amongst the characters. While it's always hard to place that dialogue in real life, you can accept the witty reparte when your main character is a supernaturally powered teenage girl who fights vampires and other evil monsters. <
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>However, about halfway through season 7 (at about the same point that the gaggle of potential slayers start to show up), the show loses the wit and humor that made it great. Too many speeches from Buffy made her less lovable and harder to empathize with. Instead she seemed arrogant and was rightfully thought holier than thou by everyone who was supposed to be on her side. Also Spike's resouling seems like a broken record when we've already lived through Angel's torment in previous seasons. Yet another vampire with a soul to serve as the First Evil's plaything. <
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>Good Things About Season 7: <
>-Dawn's character development. After being a whiny brat for the majority of her previous two seasons, Dawn has finally matured leaps and bounds over what anyone could've expected of her. <
>-Conversations With Dead People. Probably the best episode of the entire season. It could prove disappointing for the action lovers, but the scenes with Willow alone made my skin crawl. Also Jonathan Woodward is golden as a vampire that Buffy ends up having a nice chat with. <
>-The first half of the season has some great episodes including the very humorous Him, the excellent Anya-centric Selfless, and the very creepy Same Time, Same Place. Other enjoyable episodes include The Killer In Me and Storyteller. <
>-Nathan Fillion as the evil preacher, Caleb, is superb. <
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>Bad Things About Season 7: <
>-When Giles finally returns to Sunnydale, he's a cardboard cut-out of the character we used to know and love. With the exception of a few good lines here and there, Giles is cold, detached, and hardly the father-figure Buffy has always held so dear. <
>-Buffy's speechifying got rather tiresome and repetitive. <
>-The Potential Slayers were pretty useless for a majority of the season and it got to a point when I kind of wished the Bringers would kill them all. <
>-Regardless of whether or not I'm a Willow/Tara fan or not, Kennedy was not the kind of woman for Willow to move on with. While The Killer In Me was a shining moment for Alyson Hannigan, her scenes with Kennedy were almost painful as Iyari and Aly had nowhere near the kind of chemistry that Aly had with both Amber Benson and Seth Green in the character's past romantic relationships. <
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>Obviously this is a must have for die-hard fans of Buffy, but compared the rest of the series, season 7 is truly lacking. <
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>Favorite Feature of the DVD Set: Great Outtakes. This set also has the less cumbersome slim cases, which are more durable than the previous package design of the series sets.

Buffy ROCKS
This has been my favorite show since the first time I saw it on UPN in 7th grade. I own all the seasons now and the slim cases are amazing. As someone who bought the first box sets and has the big thick seasons 1,2,and three - this one is the best visually and it fits on your shelf more easily. If you want to buy Buffy - buy a slim set... it's best.