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Back Catalogue; A look at Buffy the Vampire Slayer Series 3

22/3/2014

 
Even though we always endeavour not to spoil there may be unintentional spoilers for season 1. It may be worth your while looking at our synopsis of the first season or better still grab a visual copy of Buffy on DVD, or through Netflix etc and have some slaying fun. If you don’t mind learning a little more of the comings and goings centred around Sunnydale high then read on McDuff.

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Image courtesy of Dark Horse
This Season starts with a hoot and an odd way of slaying vampires, gone is our queen of slaying and instead the Scooby Gang is trying to replace her. This mostly comes about due the fact that the relationships that were being formed in the last season are pretty much broken. Admittedly death caused a fair few relationship breakdowns but so did the truth. Finally Buffy’s mum found out why her daughter keeps on getting into trouble and she did not take it too well. This and the fact that Buffy had to rip out part of her heart (not literally) meant that the opening finds our heroine a little lost, so much so she is no longer in Sunnydale hence the gang needing to go it alone.

We do start seeing other changes like the first appearance of “previously on Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and an upgrade in the visual quality of the filming. Obviously this has a lot to do with technology but the quality is very noticeable between the end of the last series and beginning of season 3. Although the quality remains the changes that the season began with will ebb and flow as the season goes on. We also get the best new character (in my opinion) entering the Buffyverse in the form of a new slayer with the name of Faith. Her entry is interesting and her time spent in Sunnydale is eventful to say the least.

We do get a great moment of slayerhood between Buffy and Faith that shows the sometimes quirky comedy moments the show is built on. 
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Buffy: Maybe I should introduce you again. Faith, this is Giles.
Faith: I've seen him. If I'da known they came that young and cute, I would've requested a transfer.
Buffy: Raise your hand if eww.
The season schedule was always intertwined with Buffy’s school years, it makes the whole aging process of the actors work and it also moves the story along. Of course she was expelled in the last season but some things do not last forever in the Buffyverse. There is a period mid season where this could not be truer thanks to Cordie and a mischievous demon. It gives the townspeople a chance to see what would happen if the Buffy we know and love never existed, it’s a chance to see alternate reality storytelling and is pretty well done albeit with an expected outcome although there are one or two twists along the way.

As this is senior year the obvious conclusion of the season would be graduation, however would it be a Buffy season without a sting in the tail.  

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