Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 3 (New Edition)

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review by: scifihorror fan date: 2008-07-18 rating:
Buffy at its BEST!!!! FanGtastic storytelling!!
need i say more...season 2 showed maturity and it gets all the more intense with bigger (epic) staged sequences,visual effects,storylines,and some more classic episodes...its all found here in another fantastic season of the hit show.

Anne-5/5-wow!!!

Dead mans party-5/5-a lot of character development and emotion packed in.

Faith Hope and Trick-5/5-welcome to Sunnydale Faith Lahane.

Beauty and the Beasts-4.5/5-wow,Angel makes a return...but is he good or bad?

Homecoming-5/5-Buffy gets paired up with Cordelia as they fight for survival..cue laughs galore.

Band Candy*-5/5-a classic in every sense of the wors and another fave of mine...love it...hilArious all the way through.

Revelations-5/5-a rival for Giles and the Gang...Faith shows how ruthless she can really be.

Lovers Walk*-5/5-the Gangs relationships are tested,and Spike makes a BIG return.

The Wish*-5/5-a 'what if' episode and very,very dark...love it!!!

Amends-5/5-the first evil comes to sunnydale.

Gingerbread-4/5-a fun episode.

Helpless-4/5

The Zeppo*-5/5-another reversal on the plotline and another reason of why we all love Xander.

Bad Girls-5/5-Faith causes havoc...and tempts Buffy to the Dark side.

Consequences-5/5-Faith sheds her true colours.

Doppelgangland*-5/5-CLASSIC!!!!!!!!the return of vampire willow...lots of laughs...an episode close to perfection.

Enemies-5/5-must see!!!

Earshot-5/5

Choices-4.5/5

The Prom-5/5

Graduation Day*-5/5-the ultimate finale...Buffy vs Faith and the mayor...some of the greatest scenes to be found on the show EVER!!!!everyone must see this episode.

SEASON THREE needs you to watch it...its great:):)

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review by: date: 2008-04-19 rating:
When Buffy went from being great to being sensational
Definatly, 100% the best season of Buffy ever.

I have watched season 3 so many times and bever tire of it. It is well written and directed, the stories and plotlines are so compelling, from the individual 'episode' demons/vampires to the big finale with the Mayor.

This season, in my opinion, was Buffy in its prime. I felt that a bit of magic left Buffy when they left High School so watching season 3 brings back to me just what an amazing show it really was. Everything is so perfectly done- from Angel coming back from hell to his and Buffys doomed relationship, the introduction of Faith, the Cordelia/Xander/Willow/Oz saga and finally the best villain of all time- the Mayor who is evil yet strangely likable and often humorous.

The Giles/Buffy relationship and the intervention of the watchers council added more depth to the season. The season starts well but gets even better and there are some fantastic episodes. Earshot is still one of my all time favourites and sends such a message out aswell.

By now places like the library are so familiar to us they feel like home and the thought of it not being there filled me with some trepedation about the future seasons to come.

Season 3 had depth, substance, great stories but also the fine blend of comedy, horror, action and emotion that makes Buffy one of the best programes of all time.

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review by: date: 2008-01-28 rating:
My favourite Buffy season
This third season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer contains some of my favourite episodes from the entire run of the show and also has the fewest offbeat episodes. This year Buffy and the gang are in their final year of high school but living on the Hellmouth is never easy and in addition to the usual demons and vampires they must deal with the schemes of the Watchers Council, a new slayer and a politician after even more power.

Buffy has really found its feet with this season and I would say that it is this year that the show reaches its peak. All the regular cast members give their usual brilliant performances but the season is really stolen by the new cast members, specifically Eliza Dushku as Faith the new Slayer and Harry Groener as the eccentrically evil Mayor Wilkins, who is probably my favourite of all the Buffy villains. The only problem that I have with this season is that the CGI effects are still rather disappointing but this is only a minor grief and in no ways distracts from the enjoyment of the season as a whole.

It is difficult to choose my favourite episode from this season as it includes so many great ones. `Bad Candy', `Amends', `Earshot' and the two part season finally `Graduation' are all excellent episodes being both funny and enthralling but my favourite episode has to be `Lover's Walk' where a lovesick Spike returns to Sunnydale after breaking up with Drusilla in order to find a way to get her back. James Marsters is truly excellent in this episode and livens up the series brilliantly. Another couple of episodes of note are `The Wish' and `Doppelgangland' both of which involve a parallel universe where vampires have taken over and feature a vamped up Willow, brilliantly portrayed by Alyson Hannigan who seems to enjoy the role immensely. Although none of the episodes could truly be considered awful, `Gingerbread' and `The Zeppo' are the weakest episodes of this season and are slightly painful to watch in places.

Overall this season is truly great, with brilliant writing and a plot that never ceases to be in turns exciting, funny and touching. Anyone who likes Buffy should thoroughly enjoy this season, I know I did.

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review by: date: 2007-11-28 rating:
Buffy's Last Stand
This is the last great season of Buffy, so make the most of it. She's still wise-cracking, having fun and subverting the Vampire/Horror genre and managing to be scary, moving, exciting, frightening, compassionate, witty and wise over and over and over.

I don't want to give the plot away, and beware of some of the other reviews if you haven't already seen it. Suffice to say that it is worth it the watch although for me it doesn't reach the peak that was Season two.

There are two reasons for this. First, in Season two, with Angel as the villain, I had a lot more emotional involvement with the characters. The villains in this Season don't have the same connection with Buffy that Angel had. Second, the villains aren't vampires. Sure demons and humans and stuff are all very nice, but I LIKE the stories about vampires.

Oh well....

There is a lot in it anyway, and still a lot of funny, sexy, scary tv to enjoy. Buffy jumps the shark in Season four and never quite gets it back, but this one still has that special something.

Enjoy.


review by: eredfearn2 date: 2007-10-17 rating:
Class!! Pure Class!!
Season Three of Buffy is my own personal favourite of the entire Seven seasons. The Reason? Its consistancy throughout. Make no mistake, there are some class episodes in this season, some of them have passed into Buffy Legend(Band Candy; The Wish; Doppelgangland; The Prom).

The season is also memorable for other reasons; the sad departures of three of the regular cast: Cordelia Chase; Oz and of course, Angel. And to add, the introduction of Faith(Eliza Dushku), and Buffy's new watcher Wesley Wyndham-Price (Alexis Denisof).

It is a remarkable achievement for Joss Whedon and his team to maintain such a high standard throughout this season, because the greatest challenge he would then have, could he maintain it for the following four seasons? Of course, he did manage to achieve that, but I do feel as I am sure many other Buffy fans will agree that some of the best episodes are here, culminating in an extraordinary two parter Graduation Day when Buffy and her friends manage to save Sunnydale from a hideous demon, but end up destroying the school instead!

To mention some of the episode highlights; Band Candy is a hilarious episode when the Sunnydale adults begin to behave like teenagers on the rampage; including Mr Misery himself, Principal Snyder.(The rapport between Rupert Giles and Joyce Summers has to be seen to be believed. Their scenes are reminiscent of the numerous Teenage Movies which were quite common during the 1950s; and the sight of Giles throwing a dustbin through a shop window is so, so funny!)

The Wish is a classic. Cordelia wishes that Buffy had never come to Sunnydale, and a local witch, Anya, grants her wish. Sunnydale has fallen foul of numerous Vampires much to Cordelia's horror, and to make matters worse, both Willow and Xander are now well and truly undead!! Alyson Hannigan is superb in this episode as well as the follow up which is also a classic, Doppelgangland. To see her in Vampire makeup wearing leather! Well, its just soooooooo . . . .cool!

It has been said that the episode Amends is a little dull. But, I do not agree. Angel is haunted by the spirits of Jenny Calendar and others, and decides to end it all by exposing himself to the rising sun. Buffy manages to save him in the nick of time, and hey presto, one of the most bizarre endings materialises when Snow, of all things, starts to fall on Sunnydale.

And now to The Prom. This is my own personal favourite of Season Three. Two points about this episode stand out; the reconciliation as friends of Cordelia and Xander, and the wonderful scene at The Prom when Buffy is honored as the Saviour of Sunnydale by the students of Sunnydale High. I am sure all die hard Buffy fans will shed tears during the final scenes at The Prom, for they are profoundly moving.

A wonderful, wonderful season of Buffy.

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