Buffy Complete Season 1-7 - 20th Anniversary Edition

I have been the biggest Buffy fan since the show first appeared on BBC 2. Not having sky I was a little behind and when BBC eventually stopped showing it I had to wait for the original VHS boxsets to be released to watch them all. I had gradually started buying the DVD versions but had always wanted a complete collection with 1-7 but they were always so damn expensive! Then I saw this one for just £50 so I sold the few seasons I had and invested in this because it is very good value for money. The show is awesome, if you disagree, then why are you reading these reviews. I'm not going to go into lots of details about the show, everybody else has. I am going to talk specifically about this edition of the Buffy boxset season 1-7 in NEW PACKAGING released in Oct 2011. 1. Great value for money. Even if I hadn't sold the seasons I had for £15 it still would've been a steal. To get all 7 seasons with bonus features in a neat little package for £50, bargain :) 2. I haven't played all the discs yet but I randomly selected 2 discs from each season to test them. They play just fine. Picture quality is very good as is sound. I wanted to see if there were any problems as it will take me while to watch them all. I had no problems and am assuming all the discs are ok. 3. This boxset is nice and compact. Previous ones have been un-necessarily large and I wanted something that wouldn't take up too much space. This takes up no more room on a shelf than 7 regular dvds. I have given this 5* but there is a couple of things to mention that some people may not like but I didn't feel they were worth deducting a star in the review. 1. The 7 seasons are each in a normal sized dvd case which are absolutely fine, there are only pictures of Buffy on them and not of other cast members like on other versions of the boxsets, this doesn't bother me as I bought it to watch the dvds, not look at the pictures on the cases. I like the new designs and each image on the front of each season will have meaning to avid Buffy fans! But some people may prefer other versions and the picture Amazon has put up doesn't necessarily show this. 2. The outer box that the 7 seasons are kept in is incredibly flimsy. The cardboard used is really just very thick paper and mine had a little bit of damage when it was delivered. Which probably happened during transit. The corners already look a little scruffy and I've barely touched it. I can't imagine as it is the box will last very long and it's nice to have the whole 7 seasons in one box. I have taken to the inside of the box with selotape to reinforce it somewhat and will be asking for help reinforcing it some more from my sister, who is very good at things like that, when she visits. Until then I am treating it with kid gloves. This did bother me a little. I recently bought Supernatural season 1-5 and it was cheaper and the box it came in was much stronger and better made and will last a lot longer. I think the new packaging could have come in a stronger box without it increasing the manufacturing costs very much at all. And as the retail price is low, most people would've probably happily paid a small amount more to get something of slightly better quality. Howver this does not effect the discs which are obviously the most important part. If the box ends up knackered, it isn't the end of the world. 3. There are no episode guides or lists of the episodes in any of the seasons. When you play a disc you can see which episodes are on it but there is not a list on the case that says which episodes are on which disc and unless you have the episode names and numbers memorised if you wanted to play a specific episode and wern't sure where abouts in the season it was it may take a couple of tries to put the correct disc in! Now I get that they didn't include episode guide booklets to probably keep the cost down? But again, it wouldn't have been difficult to have a list on the inside cover that said Disc 1 and then a list of the episodes, disc 2 ect. As I watch the sets I plan to make a little list for each season and put it in the case myself so in future if I just want to watch one episode it will be easier to find. This again is not a big issue to me, but it's pretty standard to have a list like that! 4. Back to episode guides. I have watched Buffy so many times that I know what the episode is just by the name and don't need a description. Also I have the 3 Buffy official season guide books that have detailed descriptions of all the episodes if I need them any way so I do not mind one bit not having them in the boxset. If you are less familiar and are looking for an episode but can't remember the name of it then an episode guide would be useful and the lack of one may be more of a problem. So yes there are a few little issues with the design. Probably the worst one to me is the box, it's a bit pathetic really!! But not why I bought the set so I'm letting it go, and enjoying the episodes for their amazingness. I couldn't justify deducting a star for my nit picking but others may find these flaws more of an issue and the description on line doesn't mention any of these things. For what I paid this was excellent value, I finally have all 7 seasons to watch and re-watch to my hearts content. If you are really interested in owning Buffy then this is exactly what you are looking for, but the box may not make it passed its 1st birthday!

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER is by far the best TV program I have ever seen. Even better than FRIENDS, which is also amazing. It has everything! There a tons and tons of hilarious jokes in every single episode,but there are also loads of exciting fight scenes and for 1997-2003, the special effects were awesome. There wasn't any episodes that I didn't love! Each series was funny, scary, exciting and very, very fun, but there were also some really sad episodes that'll make you cry. SERIES ONE- Best episodes: WELCOME TO HELLMOUTH, WITCH, THE PACK, ANGEL, PROPHECY GIRL Worst episode: I, ROBOT...YOU JANE Even the worst episode was brilliant. Lots of people think that this is the worst series but I think it was one of the better ones. One of my favourite episode of the entire program is WITCH which had a brilliant ending. Every sngle episode was a classic and some of the best television I've seen. SERIES TWO- Best episodes: SURPRISE, INNOCENCE, TED, KILLED BY DEATH, BECOMING PART 1 & 2 Worst episode: REPTILE BOY Even better than the first series, series two is just as funny, exciting and sad as before. The special effects were, for 1998, epic. The action scenes were better made as well. One of the best series of program. SERIES THREE- Best episodes: ANNE, DEAD MAN'S PARTY, FAITH HOPE AND TRICK, THE WISH, BAD GIRLS, EAR SHOT, GRADUATION DAY PART 1& 2 Worst Episode: THE ZEPPO Even though the last episode's special effects could have been slightly better, this is still an amazing series. Not quite as good as series 1 or 2, but Faith comes into the show so that was a huge bonus. I loved it! SERIES FOUR- Best episodes: LIVING CONDITIONS, HUSH, WHO ARE YOU Worst episode: WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE The worst series overall, but still amazing with possibly the best episode of the entire program (HUSH). The main problem with the series was the villain. Adam was pretty cool but he wasn't that original. He reminded a lot of Frankenstein's monster. The last episode was great but it was also very, very confusing and I found it hard to understand. Quite a lot of fans think of one episode, BEER BAD, as the worst but I thought it was pretty funny. Overall I still really liked this series. SERIES FIVE- Best episodes: INTO THE WOODS, I WAS MADE TO LOVE YOU, THE BODY, FOREVER, THE GIFT Worst episode: TRIANGLE A lot better than the fourth series and maybe the third best series on the show. The acting was fantastic and the storylines were even more emotional, clever and exciting. They were also hilarious too. The villain was a lot better than Adam and the introduction of DAWN was one of the best things about the show. AWESOME! SERIES SIX- Best episodes: BARGAINING PART 1, ONCE MORE WITH FEELING, TABULA RASA, DEAD THINGS, HELL'S BELLS, NORMAL AGAIN, SEEING RED, VILLAINS, TWO TO GO, GRAVE Worst episode: DOUBLEMEAT PALACE Definately my favourite BUFFY series, series 6 might start off with some OK-ish villains, it ends with one of the most shocking and awesome villains of the BUFFY VERSE. I won't spoil though. Some episodes are hilarious (GONE), action-packed (TWO TO GO), scary (NORMAL AGAIN) or sad (SEEING RED). Overall this series was just fantastic! SERIES SEVEN- Best episodes: SAME TIME SAME PLACE, CONVERSATIONS WITH DEAD PEOPLE, STORYTELLER, LIES MY PARENTS TOLD ME, DIRTY GIRLS, EMPTY PLACES, CHOSEN Worst episode: BENEATH YOU My second favourite BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER series for sure! The last episode, CHOSEN, was the perfect ending as it was sad, funny, action-packed (with a very film-like battle) and extremely well-written and well-acted. 5 stars! I'm very sad that I've finished it but I'm about to start watching them all over again which will be fun! Buffy, Xander, Willow, Dawn, Giles, Anya, Cordelia, Faith and Joyce are the most original and brilliant characters I've seen on TV and I can't wait to watch them all again. BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER is just a classic show that you need to watch! EPIC, AWESOME AND FUN!

Where shall I start... The first time I saw Buffy was by chance really. I was playing with the remote control, not knowing what to watch, when I stopped and saw a random episode from season 2 with Buffy and Angel. The episode was called : "Halloween". From then, I started to watch it everyweek as it was so gripping. Buffy differs from every other teen series as Joss Whedon makes it so mature, and interesting. It is not a unique genre. Throughout the series you find action, comedy, drama, metaphors, adventure, sex, and love. Buffy is often mistaken for something silly like a blonde girl with superpowers, and a silly name who fights vampires...How lame does that sound, right? But no, don't be mistaken...It is so much more. The vampires and all that are just metaphors for our inner monsters, and demons. The series depicts how hard life is in high school and how it can be hard for different people in different ways. It goes on after that showing that life in itself is hard, and shows how it feels to be an independent adult. Some serious themes happens in the Buffyverse. What I found particularly special is how characters grow, such as the one of Alison Hannigan playing Willow. She is depicted in season 1 as a nerd, who then becomes a powerful young woman. Or Xander who never went to college, but has an emotional intelligence, stronger than anyone. The fact that he sees everything is so important as it is painfully taken away literally from him by the priest Caleb in season 7. It also shows that very intelligent people, or academic more likely tend to be the more fragile. The metaphors of the drug addiction in season 6 with Willow was very real, and done in a exceptional way never seen before. The all of season 6 depicts very sordid elements of life. This boxset is the best series as each season, and each episode is so different, exploring each time various existentialist themes dealing with universal ones. Season 1 is not the best, as it is still childish (they start when Buffy is 16, and it ends when she is 22) However, it is worth watching it from the start. I think it is important to see all the episodes to understand fully the depth of this series as old stories are repeated. These characters are very real, and it is easy to identify with aspects of their personality. What I love about Buffy, is that she is human, and she wishes to be "a normal girl." She was "chosen", but she is not perfect. Her emotions, and the depiction of what she feels are played admirably by Sarah Michelle Gellar. The "demons" characters are interesting too in the sense that "villains" are not always bad, and "goodies" are not always good. This is again an aspect which is very true in real life. Joss Whedon created something unique that can be seen and analysed again and again. As he says he would "rather have 100 who need to watch the show, than 1000 who like to watch it." Joss Whedon was the first director to make a musical episode (Once more with feeling season 6), a silent one (Hush season 4), and a one with no sound (The Body season 5). If you haven't seen buffy from the beginning to the end you are truly missing something. This is truly a work of art.

I want to say as I have always been an big Buffy Fan and Im' impressed with this box set the extras are just fabulous fun eye catching and the sound is great as well all the original 144 shows all put together in one box set . I am very impressed as well with the art work The Cross is very Garlic and Gothic I really love the Red going through it very passionate and sexy. I liked Season 4 a lot because Spike has more of an main role Buffy Willow and Xander have pretty much graduate and left high school and we see that Buffy is very different from the Buffy in Season' s one to two she is just accepting her role again as the Slayer it is an new School new Challenges she must try not to get kicked out try and do well she want's to be an normal going out doing what she wants Sixteen Year Old but she faces the same old thing in Sunny-dale a little town with the mouth of hell underneath it are the Vampires who want to suck Everyone's blood find the Slayer and Kill her and take over SunnyDale, but Buffy is stronger she will save the Harvest an Powerful episode from Season 1 Just as she is about to let it slip and act like an normal teenager she spots what looks like an vampire also we are introduced to Giles her if You like leader and mentor Who tells her it is her Destiny she can't escape from it " Into Every Generation an Slayer is Born". An Great Quotation . We are also introduced to The Gorgeous Angel Tall Dark Muscular and Handsome Buffy's Potential love interstate. The Extras will tell You How the Set was made and carefully Designed how many stunts were used for each scene and How Make up facial designer special effects were created plus an Commentary of each episode with Director Joss Whedon This is the Ultimate Box set for the Ultimate Buffy Fan from the Beginning of Series till now . This is an must have in an Supernatural Genre Fan Collection think Charmed Teen Werewolf etc. This is for You Buffy Fantics.

Great show

This TV Series was difficult to follow in Spain. It was always shown at strange times and it was very difficult to follow the order of the chapters. However I had watchd several chapters of Buffy and some of Angel and I found them quite amusing. I discovered the Buffy DVD series in Amazon at a very reasonable price and I decided to give it a try. Well, I am still in sesion 5 because I don not have too much time to watch, but I assure you this is a great TV series with much more than I really expected. Apart from every chapter story there is an overall storyline which gives the series a great depth. The characters are amazing and the performances are superb. Once you are in, you cannot stop, and if you get caught by the series you will go for Angel DVD collection too, which is also good and it has interconnection with the Buffy series. That is great, to have two series linked, so you never stop watching... As a summary the Buffy series has action, fantasy, a lot of humor, romance, drama, and unforgettable characters. Some chapters are really great, some others are average, but overall it is a great entertainment you will not get tired of. In fact is the only TV Series that I had really loved and followed. Regarding the package, I bougth the package which is black. The presentation is good, the DVDs are all OK. There are English subtitles in all the DVDs (but not other languages in most of them).

Well there's not much more I can add that already hasn't been said. The show is fresh, imaginative, funny, touching and manages to go to many places none other has before or since. Its creator, Joss Whedon, has taken what unfortunately seems to be his only great idea, and managed to create an icon out of her. The show takes a little from many other sources (a little "My So Called Life", a little "Friends", a little "Scream" - heck even a touch of "Star Trek"!) but the whole is much greater than the sum of it's parts and paved the way for many other supernatural / teen dramas that sprung up shortly afterwards, albeit of less quality ("Charmed", "Roswell" etc.) Using this box set to watch the series from the beginning to end is a fascinating insight to how good TV is made and written. The first 3 season got progressively better and better (Faith and the Mayor were just genius), and although season 4 has been criticised for a weak story arc, it still manages to have some of the best stand-alone episodes of the show, "Hush" being the most obvious example. Season 5 is probably the pinnacle for me (Glory was fabulous), and although I was glad Buffy continued afterwards, with retrospect could have been a very good place to stop. Especially in light of the show's "difficult" sixth season, an unnecessarily dark and dingy year for the gang. But the final year managed to reel the show back in, and sent it off the air with a bang I dare anyone not to shed a little tear watching. As for this package: if you can ignore for the time being the heinous cynicism that has ruled the selling of Buffy to the British public - selling VHS before being aired on terrestrial TV to make the eager fans buy the over-priced box sets, then releasing DVD making the VHS less attractive and therefore making hard-core fans by both etc. - and take this limited edition box set at face value, then you will be extremely pleased with the package. Otherwise, anyone with partial or complete separate seasons on DVD will find little to tempt them bar a rather nice box to keep your Buffy collection in. I've given it 4 stars because there is nothing new here. This is simply a collection put together at a more than reasonable price, considering there's 144 episodes, plus extras and commentaries from key writers / directors. So if you have no Buffy on DVD, or are thinking of upgrading your VHS collection - this is by far the best, easiest and cheapest way to do it. But if you own more than 2 seasons on DVD already you may be a little annoyed.

first off love this its brilliant they sooo should do another 7 seasons or more, i mean they could totally get away with continueing this by picking up the story like 5 or so years on or somthing. I would really really love to see more of this i mean come on u rich investors out there throw some cash at Joss Whedon you'll make mountains of cash and make millions of people happy. kay now to this specific package, great value turned up nice and undamaged. Have a few niggles mainly just that theres no episode guide / list and some of the episode selection menus are a little confuseing as they keep switching orders of play and none are numbered, still when this became an issue i just popped "buffy the vampire slayer episode guide" into google and found loads of helpfull lists of episodes all named and numbered. Almost all episodes were perfect with a couple of exceptions, once in season one and season seven there is an annoying skip of a minute or two most of that can still be seen by rewinding to just after the skip or blip or whatever it is occurs and playing from there. Still this is something you must buy and watch many many times whilst maybe sending petitions to Joss Whedon to get more seasons made, as this show goes from strengh to strengh ... heck i cant even call it a series as when it gets going it seems to me that this ceases to be a tv show and becomes one massive and awesome film.

日本版のは地上波で放送された方のバージョンで、エンディングにJ-POPが入ってて、気に入らなかった。 自分は、FOXテレビで先に観てたので(吹き替えは同じでしたが)、エンディングはやはり、オープニングテーマ曲 を使ったオリジナルの方が断然、気に入ってたのですが、全シーズン観れる、オリジナル仕様のBOXセットはないのかと Amazonで探したらあったので、買いました。 届いたら、BOXの状態も綺麗で、画像もいいし、大変満足しています。 久しぶりに観たので「こんな話しもあったんだ～なんとなく覚えてるけどんな話しだったっけ?」 状態だったので、新鮮に観ることが出来ました。 ちなみにシーズン2では、各エピソードを観るたびに、ホラーアドベンチャーゲームみたいな CG画像が出て、墓場の中を通って、不気味な扉の前に行き、扉が開いて中に自動的に入り それから、本編が始まるのが、「凝ってて面白いな～」と思いました。 多分、各シーズンごとに趣向を凝らしていると思われます。 まだシーズン2までを観ている途中なので(^◇^;)

Ce coffret contient l'intégralité des 7 saisons de Buffy contre les vampires en DVD. Il s'agit de deux boitiers incorporés dans un étui protecteur en carton. La qualité des boitiers est top et l'esthétisme du coffret est carrément génial. Cependant, faites attention seules les deux premiers saisons du coffret sont en langues françaises, le reste n'est qu'en V.O. Donc pour moi qui connait la série et ses dialogues par cœur cela ne me pose aucun soucis au contraire je préfère de loin la V.O mais pour ce ceux à qui la VF est essentielle à leurs yeux évitez l'achat.

La edición de esta colección es muy sencilla pero el contenido de los DVD's es muy bueno, los menús interactivos son de lo mejor y también los contenidos extra, el precio no considero que sea tan accesible a diferencia de otras ediciones más recientes y más completas, sin embargo la serie vale la pena y llego rápido y en buen estado.

I absolutely enjoyed watching this tv series it was amazing and awesome. I would highly recommend it to anyone who loves Vampires, Werewolves And Witches.

Se lo recomiendo a todo el mundo, es excelente. Ya conocereis esta serie y está muy bien poder conseguirlas. Gracias