Now slaying in one extraordinary collection...this must-own DVD set for every Buffy "watcher." Loaded with fantastic extras, this collection contains all seven butt-kicking seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer on 39 discs. So jump into your favorite demon-filled episodes whenever you like, or watch all the high-voltage vampire action from the beginning!Episodes:Season 1: 1. Welcome To The Hellmouth 2. The Harvest 3. Witch 4. Teacher's Pet 5. Never Kill A Boy On The First Date 6. The Pack 7. Angel 8. I Robot...You Jane 9. The Puppet Show 10. Nightmares 11. Out Of Mind, Out Of Sight 12. Prophecy Girl | Season 2: 1. When She Was Bad 2. Some Assembly Required 3. School Hard 4. Inca Mummy Girl 5. Reptile Boy 6. Halloween 7. Lie to Me 8. The Dark Age 9. What's My Line? - Part One 10. What's My Line? - Part Two 11. Ted 12. Bad Eggs 13. Surprise 14. Innocence 15. Phases 16. Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered 17. Passion 18. Killed by Death 19. I Only Have Eyes For You 20. Go Fish 21. Becoming, Part One 22. Becoming, Part Two | Season 3: 1. Anne 2. Dead Man's Party 3. Faith, Hope & Trick 4. Beauty and the Beasts 5. Homecoming 6. Band Candy 7. Revelations 8. Lovers Walk 9. The Wish 10. Amends 11. Gingerbread 12. Helpless 13. The Zeppo 14. Bad Girls 15. Consequences 16. Doppelgangland 17. Enemies 18. Earshot 19. Choices 20. The Prom 21. Graduation Day (Part 1) 22. Graduation Day (Part 2) | Season 4: 1. The Freshman 2. Living Conditions 3. The Harsh Light of Day 4. Fear itself 5. Beer Bad 6. Wild at Heart 7. The Initiative 8. Pangs 9. Something Blue 10. Hush 11. Doomed 12. A New Man 13. The I in Team 14. Goodbye Iowa 15. This Year's GIrl 16. Who Are You? 17. Superstar 18. Where the Wild Things Are 19. New Moon Rising 20. The Yoko Factor 21. Primeval 22. Restless |
Season 5: 1. Buffy Vs. Dracula 2. Real Me 3. The Replacement 4. Out Of My Mind 5. No Place Like Home 6. Family 7. Fool For Love 8. Shadow 9. Listening To Fear 10. Into The Woods 11. Triangle 12. Checkpoint 13. Blood Ties 14. Crush 15. I Was Made To Love You 16. The Body 17. Forever 18. Intervention 19. Tough Love 20. Spiral 21. The Weight Of The World 22. The Gift | Season 6: 1. Bargaining (Part 1) 2. Bargaining (Part 2) 3. After Life 4. Flooded 5. Life Serial 6. All the Way 7. Once More, With Feeling 8. Tabula Rasa 9. Smashed 10. Wrecked 11. Gone 12. Doublemeat Palace 13. Dead Things 14. Older and Far Away 15. As You Were 16. Hell's Bells 17. Normal Again 18. Entropy 19. Seeing Red 20. Villains 21. Two To Go 22. Grave | Season 7: 1. Lessons 2. Beneath You 3. Same Time, Same Place 4. Help 5. Selfless 6. Him 7. Conversations with Dead People 8. Sleeper 9. Never Leave Me 10. Bring On the Night 11. Showtime 12. Potential 13. The Killer in Me 14. First Date 15. Get It Done 16. Storyteller 17. Lies My Parents Told Me 18. Dirty Girls 19. Empty Places 20. Touched 21. End of Days 22. Chosen |
Stars:Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy Summers
Nicholas Brendon as Xander Harris
Alyson Hannigan as Willow Rosenberg
Anthony Stewart Head as Giles
Charisma Carpenter as Cordelia Chase
David Boreanaz as Angel
Seth Green as Oz
Emma Caulfield as Anya
Amber Benson as Tara
Michelle Trachtenberg as Dawn Summers
James Marsters as Spike
My Thoughts:
The Show:Earlier this month a friend gave me this complete series set... replacing my original release (digipak) season sets. This was perfect timing as I really got in the mood to watch this series again when I watched the Halloween episodes last month. So getting this set was the perfect excuse to watch the series again... after all... I had to make sure all the discs worked right? It has been 5 years since I last re-watched the entire series. And I must say... I really enjoyed every minute of revisiting the series. While i enjoyed this series from start to end... my favorite season has to be the second when we had Evil Angel as the "Big Bad" for the season. My least favorite season has to be season 4.... where Buffy starts college... they add in the Initiative and Adam was the "Big Bad". The only good thing to come out of this season was the introduction of Tara. I remember at the time there was many people that had a problem with the final season where we meet a bunch of the "Potential Slayers" and The First is the final "Big Bad" of the series. At the time I was concerned as well... but as it turned out I enjoyed the season quite a bit... and thought the finale was a very good ending to the series. With that said I would love to see a Reunion Movie air to catch us up on the surviving characters of the series. Sure... we got a season 8 comics... which I have the motion comics DVD of... but I would still love to see more. Preferably with the original cast if possible.
The Packaging:I wanted to say a little something about the packaging here as well. I like it much better then the original bulky digipaks I had. But it still could have been better. The packaging for this is the 7 re-release keep cases inside a box with a slip cover over it. Which you would think would save a lot of shelf space... but because of an odd choice on how the keep cases are housed it saves very little... if any shelf space. Another downer for this release is that it does not include the extra bonus DVD that the "Chosen Collection" came with.
Final Thoughts:Over-all it has been a fun two to three weeks revisiting this series. I am thrilled to have upgraded to this complete series set as I really don't care for the digipaks the original season sets were released in. Even though they are the same discs, I do like this packaging better.
My Rating:Out of a Possible 5