Buffy the Vampire Slayer - The Complete Third Season (Slim Set)

Although Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season 3 is not as great season as the second one was, it still is one of the best TV shows ever. The second season was such a marevelous season that it was going to be hard to beat. While the third season doesn't beat the second in terms of story arcs, it does beat it on the amazing stand-alone episodes.

Buffy Summers ran off to Los Angeles at the end of last season leaving her friends and family with a sense of betrayal. She is a waitress in the season premeire episode "Anne". After an encounter with someone she met in the second season, she decides to move back to Sunnydale. The second episode, "Dead Man's Party", is mostly about the reactions of everyone she loves to her return. The third episode,"Faith, Hope, and Trick", sets off two important season arcs: the arrival of Faith, The Vampire Slayer and Angel's return from the demon dimension.

These arcs spin off into unexpected directions, and both are relativly over by the end of the season. Some standout arc episodes include "Enemies", where "Angelus" returns and "Consequences", where Faith's story takes a turn for the worst.

The Stand-alone episodes were the best of the season. "Band Candy" and "Lover's Walk" are excellent episodes that are completly funny. "The Wish" and its sequel "Dopplegangland" introduce the infamous Dark Willow, with Alyson Hannigan putting in the perfromance of the season. "Earshot" is an intriguing episode where Buffy starts to read minds after an encounter with a demon and hears a student planning to kill the students in the school.

Top 5 Episodes of the season:

1. Graduation Day Part II
2. Lover's Walk
3. Earshot
4. Enemies
5. Band Candy

Nothing was norm in Buffy's dorm. I have the complete seven seasons and this one is my favorite!

This season was okay, but kind of a let down after season 2. To me the characters were the problem and so was the fact that I was asking myself who cares. Xander was a jerk throught the whole season, Willow really needed to get over the fact that she was dating a wearwolf, and Giles forgave Angel WAY to fast. Another disappointment was Faith! Okay, I wanted to kill her everytime I saw her. Also Eliza can't act and I don't understand why everyone loved her. I also don't understandy why Buffy kept trying to save Faith. Angel is pretty much crabby during the whole season, then again I would be crabby to if my lover sent me to hell for a couple 100 years so we can forgive him for that. The Wesley chracter was a completely pointless, we already had a stuffy english watcher...did we really need two? All I have to say for the first half, is thank god for Spike because he saved the first half of the season. oh yes, lets not forget the almighty ascension. That was the WORST CGI effects i've seen and this big battle that they have been plugging since the end of season 2 lasted a grand total of 15 mins. They were only a about 4 episodes that stand out "Beauty and the beast", "Lover's walk", "Band Candy" and "Earshot". Big let down...:(

I wrote this show off as just another high school show for teenagers when it initially aired but while home on an extended sick leave, I began to watch the cable re-airs and got hooked! The first episode I ever watched was THE WISH and to this day that's still one of my favorite BTVS episodes ever.

This season holds a special place in my heart as one of the best ever for the show - it features a strong main plot of the gang trying to stop the mayor's "ascension", the resolution of Buffy & Angel's relationship and the introduction of a new slayer, Faith (the excellent Eliza Dushku).

This series truly had something for every viewer: action, suspense, love stories, friendship storylines, fight scenes & the supernatural angle in addition to witty & intelligent dialogue.

My only complaint about the set is like a previous poster already noted, there is no "view all" selection option so you have to navigate through the menu at the end of each episode which is annoying.

The content that I recieved was great. I had already seen them all, so I knew what I was getting. but the manufacturer really messed up on the one I got, so I assume others will have the same problem. All of the discs had the correct label on the top of the CD (each has different pictures) but the content on two of the discs were the SAME EPISODES!!! Disc 4 was supposed to have episodes 12-15, instead it had episodes 16-19 on it. Disc 5 Also had episodes 16-19 on it. (I ended up with two disc 5's and no disc four)If you buy this make sure its seperate from other purchases. I bought it with the same order that I purchased other DVD sets and already returned the recipt with the first Set that had a problem (Season 1 of Buffy the last disc was missing half of one episode, and another full episode)

I wouldn't buy these in the slim line cases if I were you. I had 2 bad Seasons, out of the 4 Seasons of Buffy I bought here. Thats a bad record for whoever manufactures them.