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Buffy found its true momentum during the second season, as geeky Xander (Nicholas Brendon) fell in love with popular girl Cordelia (Charisma Carpenter), Willow (Alyson Hannigan) gave up her crush on Xander in favor of werewolf boy Oz (Seth Green), and watcher Giles (Anthony Stewart Head) began a sweetly tentative relationship with computer teacher (and witch) Jenny Calendar (Robia LaMorte). Mayhem came to Sunnydale, though, in the form of evil vampires Drusilla (Juliet Landau) and Spike (drolly wicked James Marsters), who were more than ready to aid and abet Angel as he turned bad. It all sounds like horror-action mayhem (and there are great fight scenes), but Buffy took on its plotlines with amazing depth, intelligence, and humor. And oh, man, the love story! Buffy and Angel's tragic relationship is one of the most heartbreaking you'll ever find. Buffy's final dilemma finds her having to save the world at Angel's expense, and Gellar (who deserves a passel of Emmys for her work) is phenomenal at telegraphing Buffy's swirling conflicts between love and duty. This is some of the best TV ever made, period. --Mark Englehart
| ACTORS: | Alyson Hannigan |
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Joss Whedon |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 10 March, 1997 |
| MANUFACTURER: | 20th Century Fox |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Full Screen, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Horror / Sci-Fi / Fantasy, Movie, TV Shows, Television |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 6 |
| UPC: | 024543038634 |
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Customer Reviews of Buffy the Vampire Slayer - The Complete Second Season
Watch out Buffy, Willow steals the show! The first full season of Buffy is here. Not the best season, but if you're an Alyson Hannigan fan it's worth the watch. Her character "Willow" starts to get more air time. She adds drama and a little bit of comedy to this series. You'll have to sit thrue the mindless buffy scenes, but it's worth it to see this red head. This is a must have Item for any Hannigan fan. Also Anthony stewart Head keeps it real!
Excellent season, DVD presentation not as good
I won't discuss the episodes themsleves here - I believe that anyone who's about to buy them on DVD is already familiar with them, and those who are not can find plenty of other reviews about them here.
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>This leaves the DVD presentation's features. While fortunately they constitute an improvement over the last season, there's still a lot of work to be done. Out of 22 episodes, only four have a commentary track, and of those only one - Joss Whedon's track for "Innocence" - is worth listening to. The first of the rest, David Greenwalt's "Reptile Boy", is actually one of the worst commentary tracks I've had the misfortune to hear. Greenwalt does nothing but describe the episode, as if the viewer had forgot to see it before turning on the track, and he is a boring and irritating narrator, sounding quite a lot like Butthead of "Beavis & Butthead". One keeps waiting for the imbecilic chuckling to commence.
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>The menus are not as awkward and clumsy as in the first season, yet they will insist, upon one's selection of an episode to play, on running a silly little CGI sequence for a few seconds. This sequence cannot be skipped. It may sound petty, but try to watch this 22 times - it will get old very fast.
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>It goes without saying that there are no gag reels. There are a few scripts and a handful of "interviews" (each lasting less than a minute) tossed in, and those are of minimal interest. The production features are better, but some tend to run on.
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>Lastly, the screening quality itself is not as good as can be desired, but this is not package's fault - the first two seasons were filmed in grainy, cheap 16 mm film, and it shows. I suppose that the transer actually did it justice, since I remember it looking worse on the original TV broadcast. Still, one cannot help but wonder if there was no way to improve the quality further.
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>So why did I give it a four star rating? That's simple: because of the quality of the episdoes themselves. This may be the finest overall season of the show, including classics like "School Hard", "Lie to Me", "Innocence", "Passion", "I Only Have Eyes for You", and "Becoming". Too bad that the WB couldn't be bothered to treat it properly.
A dream of the collective.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, has transformed the conventional hero myth from a depiction of a brawny, dominating loner to a more complex portrayal of a discerning and developing champion of the people. The popularity of certain mythic images and stories imparted by television signifies collective tendencies and needs. Female superhero images in media provide a heroic portrayal of women and herald the recognition of expressions and contributions of femininity. In addition this television series is a modern myth that portrays the development of and relationships to powerful femininity.
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>Having said that--in addition this series is a lot of fun and enjoyable to watch!!