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The Third Season of Buffy is the Best!!!!!
The third season of Buffy marked the beginning of a new change for the Scooby gang. Picking up where the second season left off, Buffy is living in the big city of L.A. ("Anne") where she, along with a homeless teen, fights an evil demon who enslaves humans in the demon dimension. Then Buffy returns to her roots ("Dead Man's Party), where an irate Joyce, Giles, and the Scooby Gang confront her about her running away from Sunnydale. The best part of the season was the new addition of Faith, a rogue Slayer who at first developed a deep, close relationship with Buffy until the evil Mayor (Harry Groener) turns her to the dark side. This season also marked the return of a Drusilla-less Spike (James Marsters), Angel (David Boreanaz), and Amy the Witch, and the additions of the mysterious Mr. Trick, the demonic Anyanka (Emma Caulfield), and the charismatic Mayor. This season also introduces Wesley Wyndham-Price, Buffy's new Watcher after Giles was terminated from his services from the Watcher Council. The season finale also marked the departure of Angel (who went on to form Angel Investigations in Angel) and Cordelia who joined him as she left for L.A. to become an actress.

This 6-disc set contains all 22 episodes of the season. One of the best episodes is "The Wish," in which Cordelia wishes that Bush had never come to Sunnydale, which resulted her being transported to an alternate reality where vampires have overtaken the town, and the Master (Mark Metgalf) is still alive. This episode also features the vampiric counterparts of Xander and Willow, who end up being staked to death in the end. Another excellent episode is "Dopplegangland," in which Anya turns to Willow for help with a spell, which inadvertenely summons the Evil Willow from the alternate reality.

The menus in this set are outstanding and easy to use. This set contains five featurettes, selected episode scripts and commentaries, and has language tracks in French, Spanish, and English. This set is a must-have for true Buffy fans!!!!

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Buffy's back, Angel too and also a menacing new evil
still a great show with a great cast that brings in Seth Green(Oz) to the beginning credits, which kicks ass. in the first episode "Anne" Buffy comes back at the end and then to her friends into the next episode. the 3rd episode enters Faith(Eliza Dushku) who plays a pivitol part as the new slayer after Kendra(Bianca Lawson) died at the end of season 2's "Becoming Part1 and the good return of David Boreanaz(Angel/Angelus). relationships also break in "Loverswalk" as Spike(the always great James Marsters) comes to town and the passion of Willow and Xander is revealed. Xander and Cordelia break up but Willow and Oz keep going in the episode "Amends". we are also introduced to some evil villians including Mr. Trick(K. Todd Freeman) and Harry Groener(who seems so nice but then so deadly as Mayor Richard Wilkins III). and of course we have the everso cool Wesley Wyndham Price(Alexis Denisof) who goes to season 1 of Angel and stays there. the good episodes include "Dead Man's Party", "Faith, Hope and Trick", "Beauty and The Beasts", "Loverswalk", "Amends". "Gingerbread", "The Wish", "TheZeppo"., "Dopplegangland", "Enemies", "Earshot". "The Prom and GradDay 1 and 2". in this season David Boreanaz(Angel) and Charisma Carpenter(Cordelia Chase) leave the show so they can go to Angel, which is still on and Spike(James Marsters) is a cast member

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Amazing show, amazing season. Of course it has flaws, but...
Amazing show, amazing season. Of course it has flaws, but...

In third season, it's clear for everyone that the actors are totally comfortable playing their characters, everyone knows what to do, when to do it and how to do it. The level of confidence is rising and rising.

Of course it has flaws. You just can't produce 22 perfect episodes that will please everybody. The producers, writers and cast do the best they can in the short time and relatively small budget they have at their disposal.

One question, however, does not leave my mind: how can an actress (I'm talking about Sarah Mihcelle Gellar here) give such stupendous, gorgeous, solid, breathtaking, emotional performances episode after episode, season after season, no matter if the material that they give her is good or bad? She bears more than half of the credit for Buffy being the hit it was. She TOTALLY controls the show when she's on camera. I sincerely hope she has a marvellous and well suceeded movie career (away from Scooby-Doo movies, I mean...)

As for third season properly speaking, it has ups and lows. I particularly enjoy almost everything the show ever produced, but sometimes I did not. Faith, for example. She just not fit. Shés annoying. Of course it was a character created for us to hate, but not to ANNOY the viewer. Everytime she's on screen with her wooden dialogue, I simply wanted to go fast forward (but I didn't, of course!). I also agree with with a reviewer tha said that it would have been better if the Scooby-gang treated her like a basket case beyond help, instead of trying to save her. Anyway, Joss Whedon always suprise the audience doing the exact OPPOSITE of what we would expect (Example 1: Xander and Willow - their potential beautiful romance didn't last nothing, and it was never "officalized" - Example 2: Wesley and Cordelia flirting - the flirting lasts a lot of episodes and, when they finally kiss, there is no chemistry between them and the romance is over even before it starts.)

Also, we have someplot holes and weakness we must forget in order to remember that it's, after all, just a television show for entertainment. Even if the Ascension worked for the Mayor, what were his intentions? Sure, he would eat the entire school populace, but after that? The Army, police, Air Force, all of them would transform that giant worm in small pieces very briefly. No big threat indeed!