As some may be aware, my best friend has been making me watch Buffy and Angel for the last year or so. Well, on Tuesday, we finally finished the 7th season of Buffy (we're slightly out of order, so I haven't finished Angel Season 4 yet, so let's not talk about that here).
I loved it. I think Season 7 is the best I've seen since Season 3, probably due to the nature of the Big Bad. The First Evil just seemed a lot more epic than, um...Warren...or Adam...
I actually felt like the world was in danger.
Eh?
The talks useless shit without ever hurting anyone or showing any type of power, not even using the indirect ones he has when he can? This guy was either pathetic beyond reason, or he secretly won, tricking Buffy in doing exactly what he wanted her to.
Either way, horrible.
You want to watch the First Evil done right though; watch the Archangel-Avatar-Armageddon trilogy of Highlander the Series.
Okay, the First Evil itself didn't do a whole lot, but the season had a generally more epic feel than the couple seasons that preceeded it.
If by epic you mean "epic fail" you have a point. S7 is a mess, that makes no bloody internal sense whatsoever, and even less with the previous Buffy seasons.
Buffy survived the first few seasons because she wasn't alone. That's true. But one of the points that I think was important in Season 7 was that the slayer is intended to be alone.
Noo!
The fact that that is the point in Season 7 is THE PROBLEM! The very First Slayer brought that point up in the Season 4 finale. What did Buffy do? She kicked the shit out of her and then told her that she wasn't alone, and if she didn't like it to go suck it (without actually using those specific words).
Buffy S7 has her whining about being alone; and those poor simpletons who are not Slayers are so far beneath me, they can't really do anything for me, and us Slayers will be alone even if we have "friends".
And it DOES get to the basics of Buffy because, in the end, she couldn't win by herself. It did take the help of her friends to actually win in the end.
The problem being that Buffy is of the mind those "friends" are beneath her, and even with them around her, she's still all alone and in a class above them. It's sickening.
More importantly, it's the complete opposite of what came before, a total reversal of the BtVS themes in the first 4 and somewhat 5 seasons.
The slayer line was a solitary one. It was only a matter of time before it became a serious issue for Buffy.
Buffy is dead and resurrected. And the fact that she is dead and resurrected allowed the FE to do what it wanted to do; to point of not killing her several times over when it had the chance, because her death would end the imbalance that he was capitalizing on.
Hmm, maybe there being only one Slayer is FOR A REASON, and it's what keeps the FE and possibly even many others like it from screwing up the planet!
Which would mean that the one Slayer is a GOOD state, and the FE secretly won and got Buffy to do exactly what it wanted.
They bring back the focus on the Hellmouth, and I loved the return of the high school setting. Buffy's job made a lot more sense than the damn burger joint.
What Hellmouth!? There was no Hellmouth in S7. There was a seal; and since they wrote themselves into a corner, decided to call it the Hellmouth in the last few episodes, but the Hellmouth wasn't around.
Okay, fair enough, but the "idea" of the Hellmouth was definitely an influence.
Not really. It wasn't much an influence at all, it was only pulled back out of the writers asses at the end because they realized; well, dang, Sarah is quitting, she's had it with the bad writing, this is now the last season, gotta have the Hellmouth in the last season, it was what started it after all, so how does the Seal of Danzalthar influence the Hellmouth or vice versa. What does it do, and how are they related?
Well, we still don't know, let's just forget the seal is nothing like the Hellmouth, the whole first part of the season is set up as the seal is something new and mysterious, and just call it the Hellmouth!
