Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #962328 in Books
• Published on: 2004-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 368 pages

Customer Reviews

The end of Buffy
This volume of the Watchers Guide is an episode guide to the final three seasons (seasons 5, 6, and 7) of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It has details of plot for each episode in these seasons, and also has additional pieces of unfilmed script (great for fans!) for many of the episodes. There are also a collection of essays included at the end of the book which analyse the series as a whole.

It lacks the humour of Keith Topping's "Slayer" series of episode guides (which I would also recommend), and doesn't have much background information on the stars, but it does have comprehensive details on the episodes and also some behind-the-scenes stuff which can only be found in "Official" guides such as this.

Highly recommended for both die-hard and more casual Buffy fans.

Buy this book. You owe it to yourself.
"Buffy"'s twilight years, eh? What a mixed bag they were for every masterpiece like "Once More , With Feeling" there was a stinker like "End of Days"; for every hilarious story like "Him" there was an embarrassment like "Doublemeat Palace". But no matter what you say, Buffy will be (and already is) sorely missed by all who knew her. But to make things easier, this gem of a book has been released, and is worth buying the DVDs for alone.

The first thing you thinjk when you open Watcher Guide 3 is how different it is from the first two - a completely new format, and more statistical information and less "silliness" (such as Watcher Guide 1's article about Xander's sugar fetish). The books have grown up, just like the series.

As well as the slightly improved plot summaries, we have the usual Quotes of the Week and trivia, and all pictures are kept together directly in the middle of the book. We have preliminary sketches (to compare how different Sweet was in the original plans as to the final product), and all sorts of cast and, occasionally, crew photos (warning: the pictures of Amber Benson are almost fatally unphotogenic).

For the first (and, sadly, last) time, we have truly fantastic essays at the back. Highlights from these essays include a genuinely touching summary of poor Jonathan's life, and an fascinating view of "Buffy" from a London perspective (I had honestly never seen the parallels between "Doctor Who" and "Buffy", until now!) But the climax of the whole book is undoubtably the entire script of the Series 4 finale, "Restless". This is absolutely brilliant, and includes notes that suggest it was a prediction for the rest if the series as a whole (hmm... an intriguing thought).

Buffy is dead. (Yet again.) But you can keep the spark burning. By buying this book.