Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Season 7

[Guest bps "The Truth" 21]

Andrew is funny dammit. Best Dr. Strangelove referrence EVER.

 

Anyway.

 

I think everyone is dying this year except for Buffy, Xander and Willow.

 

The first episode of the season the first said that we would be going back to the beginning...and in the beginning there were only those 3. And Giles if he lives.

 

The only problem is that I know they won't kill Dawn because they hate us. Spike, Wood, Anya and the rest of the slayers in training are all going to get theirs.

[cawthon777 0]

Andrew is funny dammit. Best Dr. Strangelove referrence EVER.

 

Anyway.

 

I think everyone is dying this year except for Buffy, Xander and Willow.

 

The first episode of the season the first said that we would be going back to the beginning...and in the beginning there were only those 3. And Giles if he lives.

 

The only problem is that I know they won't kill Dawn because they hate us. Spike, Wood, Anya and the rest of the slayers in training are all going to get theirs.

I could live with that. But Spike dying = uber sad

 

 

 

SPOILER

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A few weeks ago, I heard Joss was trying to work out a deal with UPN and the WB so that Angel could appear on Buffy - most likely for the final episode. He was given the green light by both companies.

[Guest Max Danger]

I'm going to talk spoilage down below.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SPOILER...

 

A few weeks ago, I heard Joss was trying to work out a deal with UPN and the WB so that Angel could appear on Buffy - most likely for the final episode. He was given the green light by both companies.

 

So, maybe, Angel helps stop the end of the world. Then Buffy almost dies and Spike saves her. Before HE dies, she tells him he loves her, right with Angel there. 'Cause Buffy & Angel will always love each other, right? But they know they can never be together(what with his curse and all), so she finally realized that she could have spent her life with Spike, or something.

[LaParkaYourCar 0]

Angel will be able to relate to Spike having a soul so I doubt he'll be aprehensive about Buffy loving Spike. Plus Angel has his own love life problems to deal with right now.

[Guest Mole]

I was thinking about that today when I was watching Angel's first season.

 

I have a interesting question, that I haven't seen anyone talk about. What if Angel NEVER left Buffy? How would the story work?

[cawthon777 0]

FX rerun today = Buffy & Riley Sex Fest '00 = WRONG

 

Although it does feature the awesome 'Giles singing and playing guitar in the coffee shop' scene.

[Guest RavishingRickRudo]

Dude, they should make a giles spin-off where he travels from town to town with a guitar on his back fighting evil by day and singin sweet sweet melodies by night.

[Guest Youth N Asia]

Yeah, but "Superstar" aired before it...so that kind of makes up for things.

[Guest Youth N Asia]

Dude, they should make a giles spin-off where he travels from town to town with a guitar on his back fighting evil by day and singin sweet sweet melodies by night.

I would SO watch this!

[cawthon777 0]

Dude, they should make a giles spin-off where he travels from town to town with a guitar on his back fighting evil by day and singin sweet sweet melodies by night.

It would be like The Fugitive meets the Incredible Hulk ... only with guitar and british accent.

 

In my best Comic Book Guy accent "BEST SHOW EVER!"

[Guest RavishingRickRudo]

Throw in Desparado.

 

*guitar case opens*

[Guest Mole]

Since no one answered my question....What do you think the show would be like if Angel never left the show? How would it work out?

[Guest RavishingRickRudo]

Too big of a what-if.

 

No Riley, no help w/ the initiative, no love affair with spike, glory prop. would have killed him... what does it matter?

[cawthon777 0]

The show would not have been as interesting and would have fizzled out by now.

 

Loss and conflict = good TV. It forces change.

[Guest RavishingRickRudo]

WWE excluded...

[Guest Youth N Asia]

If Angel stayed on then the writing would have gone in a completly different direction, and there's no way you could guess where it would be at by now.

[Guest Mole]

Yeah, that makes sense.

 

But I always hear about how Joss knew what he was going to do with the show from the beginning. How did the Angel spin off thing all happen, just because Buffy was so popular? I just remember reading about it when it happend, but at the time I wasn't a fan so I didn't really give two shits.

[Guest fazzle]

Dude, they should make a giles spin-off where he travels from town to town with a guitar on his back fighting evil by day and singin sweet sweet melodies by night.

I would SO watch this!

Hell, I'd watch a 24 hour real-time network of that.

[Guest Vyce]

It's official - this is the final season.

 

Link is here:

http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=14538

[Guest RavishingRickRudo]

It better be the final season. I mean, the villains kept getting stronger and stronger and stronger to the point where it just gets a lil silly.

 

How many more eps. are left?

[cawthon777 0]

How many more eps. are left?

7 left. I'm ready for the Dushku myself.

[cawthon777 0]

How did the Angel spin off thing all happen, just because Buffy was so popular?

Partially that. With all the changes Buffy went through in Season 3 (looking to her future, college, etc), Angel had to go. They would never be happy together in the long-term - there would always be the fear of Angel becoming too happy and thus losing his soul ... or he would be holding her back from her making something of herself.

 

Joss and David Greenwalt saw David Boreanaz as someone that could carry his own show and the character of Angel had a lot of untapped potential. They brought Cordelia along to draw in more Buffy fans, and the rest is history.

 

Angel Season 1 included cameos from many former Buffy characters - Buffy, Oz, Spike, Wesley, and I suppose you could say Darla. It helped get the show off the ground and it's been good TV since.

[Guest JMA]

Buffy won't die.  She's already died like a dozen times...in this last season alone... (member that time when Andrew accidently killed Buffy and had to go back in time to save her?  Fabulous eps.)

No... and I've seen every Buffy episode since the show was first started.

 

EDIT: Do you mean the one with the mummified hand?

[cawthon777 0]

Buffy won't die.  She's already died like a dozen times...in this last season alone... (member that time when Andrew accidently killed Buffy and had to go back in time to save her?  Fabulous eps.)

No... and I've seen every Buffy episode since the show was first started.

 

EDIT: Do you mean the one with the mummified hand?

I don't recall that either - but the mummy hand did rule. I loved the Monty Python 'Dead Parrot' tribute in there.

 

"This hand is no more! It is a former mummy hand!"

[Guest RavishingRickRudo]

Oh come on, the eps. where Andrew accidently killed Buffy and had to go back in time to save her was the same eps. where Xander, Willow, and Anya had the three-way everyone had been waiting for...

 

I can't believe you guys have forgotten that!

 

Xander: Uh, Hey.

 

Willow: Hey.

 

Anya: So are we going to get busy or what?

 

Xander: Wait wait wait wait wait... I'm a guy, this is a 3 way... Let me savour the moment, ok?

 

Anya: Whatever, gimme the vodka.

 

Willow: You better watch it with the vodka Anya, I mean, remember what happened the last time you drank?

 

Anya: No.

 

Willow: Exactly.

 

Xander: Giddy up.

[Guest Mole]

Even though this is the final season, I am sure another spin-off will take place. I still haven't seen all of season 4,5, and 6 so I still have plenty of Buffy to see.

[cawthon777 0]

Dude, they should make a giles spin-off where he travels from town to town with a guitar on his back fighting evil by day and singin sweet sweet melodies by night.

OMG ... speaking of which, tonight's FX rerun had Giles singing 'Freebird'! PURE GOLD!

[LaParkaYourCar 0]

Wow one of today's FX episodes had Angel clips in the "previously on..." segment.

[cawthon777 0]

Wow one of today's FX episodes had Angel clips in the "previously on..." segment.

I caught that myself.

 

"Previously on Angel ... Angel rightfully tells Buffy off when she comes to LA majorly PMSing ..."

[Guest Steve J. Rogers]

How did the Angel spin off thing all happen, just because Buffy was so popular?

Joss and David Greenwalt saw David Boreanaz as someone that could carry his own show and the character of Angel had a lot of untapped potential. They brought Cordelia along to draw in more Buffy fans, and the rest is history.

On Doug Petrie's commentary on "Bad Girls" he was talking about the fact that they were still unsure about wheither David could carry his own show or not. Well they (Joss, Doug and I forget the other guy, could have been Greenwalt as well) are watching the scene where Baltazar is asking Giles and Wesley what the name of the person who took the amulet was and David Boreanz walks in very dramatically with vamp makeup on in a shot from the floor looking up and says "His name is ANGEL!" and that entrance pretty much sealed the deal for the spin-off.