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The third season of Joss Whedon’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer was marked by the arrival in Sunnydale of renegade slayer Faith (Eliza Dushku), a moody loner who seemed to like her demon-staking calling just a little too much. While Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) was always wary of Faith, the two developed a deep friendship and appreciative rapport – that is, until the evil mayor of Sunnydale (Harry Groener) tapped into Faith’s dark side and lured her into his plot to take over the world, first as a double agent spying on Buffy, then as out-and-out nemesis. And as the mayor’s ascension approached – which happened to fall on Sunnydale High’s graduation day – Buffy and Faith’s battles got nastier and nastier, as Buffy attempted to wrestle with her dark side, save the world and her friends (again), and keep her lover Angel (David Boreanaz) out of Faith’s evil clutches – and out of evil’s evil clutches.

Episode 01: Anne
It was a good episode. Buffy is dealing with past happenings, coming around Angel’s death and trying to turn away from her old life. At least her disappearance from the last episode didn’t get a shitty conclusion, but took a whole episode to deal with this topic – good. And it was good that the other characters in Sunnydale didn’t get much screentime, and only one vampire and their first day of school. Even though the talk Giles (Anthony Steward Head) and with Joyce (Kristine Sutherland) was pretty interesting and full of character moments. Not only tries Joyce to accept Buffy being the slayer, she still looks for excuses, why Buffy moves far and far away from her. And she has kind of right. Giles really is a big father figure in Buffy’s life and he sometimes took most of her time.
The demon story was alright, it gave a nice conflict for Buffy and a reason to return. And with the appearance of Lily (Julia Lee) we have a character from season two back for one episode and another little conflict for Buffy.
Just the fact that Buffy must have been sad all summer long gets a bit on my nerves – nobody can be that sad all the time – she shut herself out from life all the time, didn’t meet people, did nothing? Kind of unreliable. To run away from life means you have to live another life and not think about it… 7,5/10

Episode 02: Dead Man’s Party
An average episode, even though the most interesting story, Buffy’s efforts to reinstate herself into her old life, was the best here, but cut way too short. Buffy had some discussions with her friends in here (despite the cheesiness of the verbal fight during the party, especially Xander’s (Nicholas Brendon) behavior), but the real aftermath was kind of missing in this episode. Instead the writers had to deal big with a Nigerian mask, which rises the dead. Not really interesting and of course full of cliches: The zombies behaved like real zombies from classic monster movies. To be honest, the whole zombie/mask/whatever story was completely useless, uninteresting and dull. But all the scenes involving Buffy and her friends getting back to their old life were great. 5,5/10

Episode 03: Faith, Hope and Trick
Finally the season really begins. With Faith’s introduction. Buffy’s grieve is over after she told the truth what really happened (great scene) and she even tries to get a date. Joyce is finally living with the fact that her daughter is the slayer and even learns that she died for a couple of minutes. So pretty much nice development in all of the characters. Even Faith’s introduction into the Buffyverse was pretty much good. She succeeded Kendra and she is a troubled person (which lets me ask the following: Who is choosing the slayers at all?). And at least she came to Sunnydale with a backstory (pissing off a fishy vampire with three fingers), even though it would have been better, when the story actually was a bit better. A watcher was killed and nobody really cared.
Faith in the Summers house was nice, this is what makes her to a likable character, and how she beat the crap out of one of the vampires was just nice, this promises some more action in this season and it promises that Faith will have some problems to deal with.
The cliffhanger seems nice, though I wished not to see it: Angel is back from hell (or wherever he was). I still wish the writers chose letting him in hell, but WB wanted to have a spin-off with him, so he had to come back… 7,5/10

Episode 04: Beauty and the Beasts
Pretty much a boring episode, even though it is Angel’s first episode back after his death in the second season finale. I am stunned that Angel might have been a monster in here, but he was able to style his hair… Funny.
The story about the high school couple, the Jekyll & Hyde theme, was really boring and didn’t interest me a bit. Scott (Fab Filippo) brings some new characters into the game and it was so damn obvious that they are important for the story. Platt (Phill Lewis) as school psychiatrist would have been interesting, but he was killed in his first episode. Bummer. At best the story about Oz (Seth Green) probably being the killer of the student was interesting, but this was pretty much solved during the second half.
Well, I still don’t like the fact that the writers had to bring back Angel. Not only will his love story with Buffy starts from the beginning (again), but Angel is not that interesting in here. Really. Maybe his return from wherever he came from could be interesting, because of the “wherever he came from” – where was he? 4,5/10

Episode 05: Homecoming
A good and interesting episode, not only because of the Mayor’s introduction. Apart from the questionable storylines (what does the Mayor want from Trick (K. Todd Freeman), or why is it always so difficult to hunt down Buffy and finally kill her – even the Germans were really stupid enemies) and the Buffy/Cordelia (Charisma Carpenter) feud (even though they seem to be friends at the end, but they will ever “hate” each other) I liked the episode. Okay, the fight about being the homecoming queen was funny and so, but the series doesn’t need typical high school, stories for only one episode, when I already know the ending won’t develop any of the main characters.
The ending was funny – for the first time a tie, Buffy and Cordy are about to hear their names and then the other contestants win. Totally hilarious in my eyes. And like I said, I don’t know what the Mayor has to do with Trick – it is obvious that the writers wanted to keep Trick as a temporary enemy for Buffy, but the real reason is missing. It was nice though to see one of the Texan vampires from season two back again. I had to laugh, when he ran away from Cordy. 7,5/10

Episode 06: Band Candy
Pretty boring episode, but at least a funny one. Even though we find out more about the Mayor; Ethan’s (Robin Sachs) return and Giles and Joyce making out without stopping, this episode was just a filler, like the last two episodes, just to waste some time until the next episode.
Well, like I said, the episode was hilarious. Giles a teenager again, making out with Buffy’s mom in front of Buffy and Buffy herself trying to be the adult was nice and had a bit of a character development – this
all was cool, but I can’t think of any more than this episode just being a filler. Not only Angel has no screentime in here, and I am not talking about Faith.
And getting the newborn was just a lame excuse for this story, the vampires simply could have gone into the hospital, made a little kill spree and got the newborn – what’s so difficult to do this and why the deal with the cursed chocolate?
Yeah, it was funny, but one of the most useless episodes in Buffy history. 5,5/10

Episode 07: Revelations
This is an episode I wanted to see during the last six episodes. Finally no filler, instead great stories, developments and ideas of what’s to come this season.
Faith getting a new watcher was a good idea (and it was necessary after all to give Faith a new watcher), but her being the bad one was pretty obvious. And finally the scooby gang finds out that Angel is alive again (only their reaction was a bit over the top – even Giles cannot only see the things Angel did to him; as a watcher he has to see the whole picture), so Angel can be integrated more into the story in future episodes.
The first Buffy vs Faith was awesome and it was not the last. It is great to see that the writers planned this storyline from the beginning. I just find it amusing that Faith knocked out Angel and he was unconscious for, like, ten minutes and then wakes up to save Willow (Alyson Hannigan) (that was more funny than surprising).
The deal about the glove was boring though, and the finale came a bit too fast; and I wished to see the scooby gang dealing more about Angel actually being the good guy again.
But the fights were really good. Finally some classic slayer vs slayer (I know, Kendra and Buffy fought in season two, but Kendra is almost forgotten, and dead, while Faith is in the story right now). 8,5/10

Episode 08: Lover’s Walk
Funny and serious episode, and a test balloon, how the writers can deal with Spike (James Marsters), even though his story is over and he already was the main enemy. There are already many parallels with later seasons and the ending of the episode is pretty much awesome.
Sure, the story around Spike ain’t great and nothing is happening (he doesn’t get Drusilla back, he doesn’t get killed, he is the same old Spike from season two with the exception of his love talk), but how the scooby gang is dealing with him is awesome. Even though I couldn’t believe that all of them were believing really fast that Spike returned, especially Buffy while on the phone with Joyce.
Funny moments were Spike talking his soul out with Willow, while she is scared of him killing her and definitely Spike talking to Joyce; I was short before laughing very hard. Just the fact that Angel was “accidentally” at the Summers house and seeing Spike, thinking he wants to kill Joyce was laughable in a negative way; such coincidences are just stupid and unintentionally funny. But what the hell.
The little relationship drama Willow/Oz/Xander/Cordy growing to its highest point was awesome, though it was (unintentionally) funny, that Cordy and Oz ran into Willow and Xander while kissing. And I wouldn’t know what to begin with Cordy’s accident right after that (probably, just to show the funeral scene and have the gag in it), when I wouldn’t know the next episode.
And how good would it be, when the friendship of the gang is broken, while they are saving the world? The end of the episode was a good start. 8/10

Episode 09: The Wish
Great episode. Cordy is still dealing with the “break-up” and wished practically hell on Earth. The introduction to that story was already settled in the last episode, while Cordy was thinking about her life in the hospital (still a scene in which Charisma Carpenter looked really great and really serious for the first time in the show). And this episode gives us the introduction of Anya (Emma Caulfield), a well-known character in later episodes.
It was obvious that the alternate reality story was coming in Buffy sooner or later and even though the setting of the alternate reality wasn’t a surprise (because there had something to come), but what happened during the 42 minutes was awesome. Cordy killed by Xander-vamp and Willow-vamp in the middle of the episode (so the actual reason, why we are in this reality isn’t there anymore, it is like Psycho: Mill the main character, before the movie hits half time); Xander and Willow being creepy vampires (which gives Alyson Hannigan a cool opportunity to play outside of her sweet Willow character, now she is the sweet and cold-blooded vampire – awesome); the Master (Mark Metcalf) risen from the Harvest and developing technology for sucking up blood in a better and more “human” way (LOL); and Angel is the puppet for everyone, especially Willow (great scenes between the two).
For me, it came just a bit too fast how Giles figured out the Anyanka deal, and Buffy came really fast to Sunnydale, without even asking a question – she was so cold in her role here, I was asking me why she even bothered to go to Sunnydale. But the final fight was awesome. Half of the gang gets killed and the Master even won over Buffy, and with that great score playing in the background, the scene had a few goosebumps effects. I just wished the scene would be a bit longer or we actually would see Buffy hit the ground after she was killed.
One of my highlights. 9,5/10

Episode 10: Amends
Another great episode, when you look under the surface of it. You don’t see it, but here are battling the good and the evil against each other, and Angel is only their playing ball. It is only a shame that the writers didn’t plan to show it more in the story. Instead we only learn about the First, and we only know that it actually exists (it is interesting that Giles didn’t know about it before; it comes a bit illogical, when he and the gang is learning everything about their enemies, when they are actually in Sunnydale and threatening lives), for more you have to wait four more seasons.
At least Angel got a story of his own, after he was barely a main character these last episodes, and together with his flashbacks the episode had a nice touch and brought us Angel a bit closer again. Even though I didn’t need his flashbacks, but they were necessary for the First to appear in the people Angel killed in the past. His doubts were interesting, though bad acted (I had to laugh, when he was touching his head and trying to play craziness, because that totally didn’t work out) and Buffy’s first standoff with the First was hilarious (“All right. I get it, you’re evil. Do we have to chat about it all day?” – “You have no idea what you are dealing with.” “Let me guess, is it… evil?”). Haha, I was laughing.
I just don’t believe that Angel would kill himself to save Buffy. Not only out of character, but the scene in which Buffy tries to bring Angel the word “strong” closer looked good, but at the end it was way too much, because I couldn’t buy the situation. And on top of it the sun didn’t rise, it didn’t even go bright. It stayed night the complete day. I am laughing. I know, it was highly possible that the Powers That Be were responsible for the snow to save Angel, but at least the writers could have shown that it was actually DAYTIME and not in the middle of the night.
The return of Robia LaMorte was awesome though. I miss her since Angel killed Jenny. A shame that she never did anything good after Buffy. 8,5/10

Episode 11: Gingerbread
Another one of those filler episodes and a pretty boring one, too. The story seemed interesting, but it got boring, after the ghosts were revealed, because it was a real mystery before, without actually being a real big mystery. The witch hunt of course reminded me of Salem and all the other witch and religious hunts in the history of mankind, but the writers could have done more.
It would have been nice to see Joyce possessed or something and let her be the main enemy of the episode; Buffy fighting against her mother to save her, but it never came to that, bummer. And the final “fight” was a bit lame – Buffy trying the whole time to free herself and then suddenly she manages to break the pole and stabs the demon? Muhaha, I was laughing. Well, at least the scene was intended to be funny.
Cordy to Giles was funny, too: “How often are you knocked out anyway?” I already can’t count the times Giles was knocked out and this was indeed a funny scene…
By the way: Is it just me or didn’t the writers conclude the ritual sign things. Willow said they were for protection, but why were they on the kids’ hands? 5/10

Episode 12: Helpless
A good episode. And the start of a new little story, even though the story of the episode was filler. At least we learn something more about the Watcher’s council and how they are practically the bosses of the slayers and their watchers.
The vampire of the week was kind of funny. Jeff Kober can always play the bad guy (I only know him as the bad guy anyway), but his actions were just… stupid. He kills one of his guards, makes him to a vampire, but actually can’t free himself and has to wait? And how did he know where Buffy lived to take her mother? And how did he even know that Buffy was the one to “play” with and not any other girl on the street?
Buffy without her superpowers was a good idea, and I really liked Giles in this one, but for a better episode the writers have to build around the plot holes, not actually on it. 7,5/10

Episode 13: The Zeppo
It is interesting that the writers once dealt with the story of “Nobody will ever know what happened”, and that’s why this episode is good. And funny. Buffy and the rest of the scooby gang fight their biggest fight yet, and Xander has other problems to fight, just because the gang didn’t want him in their fight. Another example that the series is for an ensemble cast. Buffy was not even a second-row character in this one; with her five-minute screentime she almost had nothing to do.
Xander’s zombie story was old, but cool and funny. It is nice how he develops as a character here, even though he had one too many one liner. At least zombies just want to have fun is something new, I didn’t see that all the time. And Xander having sex with Faith… ROFL. I don’t even know why the writers put that in the episode, it seems so unimportant. And funny (here is it again).
And the apocalypse problems of the gang? I almost was surprised how much screentime that story got; with a little less screentime (Buffy’s scene in the bar
could have been cut out) it would have been better, especially when Xander’s story crossed with the apocalypse (saving Faith, meeting Giles and Willow, running from the demons). 8/10

Episode 14: Bad Girls
Finally, the season story arc can really begin now, after the writers included everything they want to have included for the episodes. The Mayor is invincible now (pretty lame for just a one-episode arc), Faith is about to change sides, a new watcher is in town and we had the fattest vampire ever in vampire television history.
Wesley’s (Alexis Denisof) introduction was very nice and I was laughing when he and Giles simultaneously cleaned their glasses. Funny as well was how all of them handled Wesley as the new watcher, especially Giles with his snippy one liner.
Buffy and Faith on an action trip was very nice, at least we had some nice vampire action for a change; how they entered the nest by daylight looked really cool. And with Faith’s murder we have a new story starting (finally I would say); there isn’t much time left until she and the Mayor meet – but first Faith has to be separated from the scooby gang (which had enormously lots of screentime here. Not).
Important episode for the season, but actually not a great one. Just good. 7/10

Episode 15: Consequences
Basically the second part of the Bad Girls episode with all the aftermath of Faith’s murder. Buffy has nightmares, Faith still doesn’t care about what she did and everybody tries to get Faith back to her old manners (if she had any from the start). And even though the cliffhanger was necessary for the story arc, I just don’t know why Faith would go to the Mayor to work for him. What is her reason for that? She never was really that bad, she only had bad influence in the life she lived, but that was never a reason, why she changed sides.
It was nice of the writers to give Xander another chance to help without his superpowers, and like in The Zeppo, he almost died trying to help Faith (here as well: How did Angel enter the motel room? Faith never invited him in). By the way: Faith trying to seduce Xander is again way over the top. Sure, she plays with men like they are her boytoys, but Faith’s actions here are mostly unreliable, and this is what pulls the episode down.
Wesley is another topic: He is too much outside of the scooby gang to have that much screentime. Though it is interesting to see a watcher really living the watcher rules, but in this moment Wesley isn’t really interesting.
Still a good episode, but the writers suddenly pushed Faith to the bad side without giving any plausible explanations why she would work for the bad side. 7/10

Episode 16: Doppelgangland
Almost a genius episode. Joss Whedon did exactly the right thing: He totally didn’t take the episode serious and put lots of gags in it. Not only am I surprised that the story needed 14 minutes to get to its first climax (vampire Willow entering this reality), but the story actually was funny. Alyson Hannigan has again lots of fun playing the dominatrix vampire and even has a nice action scene (this would be her first in the show, if I didn’t forget anything); Anya is back to introduce her to the audience and showing that she will be a recurring character; the scene in which Willow sees that her evil doppelganger seems to be gay (very important if you consider the next season) and especially good Willow amongst vampires in the Bronze – the complete scene was very hilarious. Even the scenes in which the characters were truly shocked about Willow’s “death” were almost hilarious, because totally unbelievable. I don’t know if that was on purpose or really bad acting.
From start to finish a real highlight of the show, another one of those examples that the writers always have irony in their ideas. 9,5/10

Episode 17: Enemies
A good episode with a nice, but obvious twist at the end. I still can’t buy the fact that Faith is working for the Mayor, but I have to live with that, and fortunately the writers didn’t hang on the story of Faith working undercover for the Mayor in the scooby gang – this one is ending right here.
Buffy’s play to trick Faith was really nice and, like I said, the twist was nice, but everybody should have seen it coming. The writers couldn’t turn Angel again, after they did it in the last season; and the situation with Buffy in cuffs and Faith being the player could just end in Buffy winning (and therefor knowing what is going on), because every other exit would be dumb and idiotic. Only one scene was missing: The scooby gang learning that everything was a hoax to let Faith believe she is ahead of the game. The gang comes into the crypt and they just “watch” Buffy fighting against Faith? Hm, there is really a little scene missing.
By the way: The story with the books is really… ehm, lame.
Interesting is the fact that Faith was the first to use the phrase “scooby gang” during the run of the show. 7/10

Episode 18: Earshot
Interesting stand-alone episode and again injoke Jonathan (Danny Strong) with some appearances. And surprisingly he is in the center of the story, even though the plot about somebody killing all the students began directly at the end of the first half of the episode. The idea of giving somebody new superpowers is not new, but I loved it how Buffy was curious about what is happening to her, and then totally happy when it was mind reading. The writers could have played with that story plot more, but they wanted to make her crazy and the school assassination had to be a big plot in here. But, hey, when Danny Strong has more screentime…
The mind reading scenes were full of cliches, everybody thought exactly that what was funny (though Oz was seriously thinking about a serious topic, which was LOL). And the ending surprise was really one, and a funny one, too. First the emotional scene with Buffy and Jonathan in the clock tower, which really showed some similarities between these two characters, and then the kitchen woman poisoning the food in front of Xander’s eyes – very hilarious. More hilarious was the fight Buffy had with her afterward. Seriously, did the producers really do that? Muhaha.
Funny as hell was Buffy learning about Joyce’s and Gile’s tete-a-tete. Damn, I was laughing. 7,5/10

Episode 19: Choices
For the main enemy episode before the season finale a really lame episode. The most interesting part was the standoff between the Mayor/Faith and the scooby gang with Snyder (Armin Shimerman) and two boring cops in the middle of it. But the rest wasn’t really that interesting, because it didn’t really looked like the writers were preparing the season finale. It felt more like a filler story to get the recurring characters (Mayor, Faith) involved again, before they don’t have any screentime. The story with the box really felt like a filler though, but at least it gave Willow some great moments as hostage and character development at the end. She is not only becoming a real powerful witch, but she is staying in Sunnydale to help Buffy out.
I have a problem how the writers deal with Wesley. He is still too much of a laughing-stock in the show, nobody takes him serious, which follows in the viewers don’t taking him serious. Especially for the first season of Angel this will be the biggest problem the writers have to deal with.
The standoff was great; even the Mayor had some character development and it was great to see that he isn’t really an enemy, he still wants to help in some way (how he talked to Angel) – even this talk was the next stone to prepare Angel to leave Sunnydale. 7/10

Episode 20: The Prom
Just a stand-alone episode, but how it prepared for the season finale… The episode is really unimportant for the rest of the series, but I find it pretty much genius. Sure, the hell dogs, or whatever they were, were really boring (fortunately this story didn’t have much screentime), but I loved how the writers let Buffy think about everything she lived through the episode and let her react in the way she was supposed to react in the series: She is only a lone warrior. Like every other slayer she fights alone, and
this episode showed how she would fight when she was alone and didn’t have any friends on her side – a really great way to show this. And I loved the complete prom sequences, in addition Buffy trying to kill the dogs and saving the school once again.
And then the real highlight: the last award. This has to be the prettiest moment in the series. It was really a great feeling to see Buffy awarded for what she did during the last three years; even I had a little tear in my eye, especially with Jonathan giving out the award – very sweet.
That Angel broke up with Buffy was obvious after the happenings of last episode and what’s to come for him (a spin-off). And it was another one of those great character moments; full of cliche, but still good acted and with emotions.
The little side plot with Cordelia and her family being broke seems just like a filler story though to not only give her screentime, after she was kind of cut in the story these last episodes, but to give Xander a final moment with her. By the way: Xander and Anya are really sweet together, no wonder why Emma Caulfield was promoted to the main cast. 8,5/10

Episode 21/22: Graduation Day
The perfect finale for the high school era of the series. Graduation Day for everybody, and everybody has to fight to survive the next day. And with it the high school is completely destroyed. Like Giles said, this is pretty ironic.
The first part of the finale was more of a normal episode. Faith trying to hurt Buffy through killing Angel with a poison, the scooby gang out to find a cure for him. Which results in the big and awaited fight Buffy versus Faith. It was a good and long fight, but I couldn’t prevent to see the stunt women all the time; their faces were clearly visible. And I couldn’t think that Angel’s cure was only the blood of a slayer. I don’t know, but isn’t this pretty dumb from the Mayor to give this poison to Faith? He should have known that Buffy would find out and probably get to Faith to cure Angel. Or this is one of the storylines Joss Whedon didn’t really think through. But the scene in which Angel feeds on Buffy was great. This is the second time Buffy was fed on by a vampire (the first time being the Master in the first season finale). It really looked like Angel wouldn’t stop, and the scene had a strong sexual meaning (just look at Buffy destroying things and touching Angel while lying on the ground and being sucked on).
Other than that the aftermath of Buffy beating Faith in a coma (interesting: A slayer with supernatural powers can heal pretty fast, but from a coma she doesn’t wake up) was interesting: the Mayor grieving in the hospital, having a little standoff with Angel. And suddenly the Mayor has a human weakness? And it is Faith? Well, I can’t think of the Mayor being a father figure for Faith, this just didn’t come too fast (even though they were signs all over the last episodes), but this story is seriously unreliable. This makes the final fight (Buffy running around with the knife she put in Faith) a bit laughable – negatively speaking.
But the fight itself was good. The scooby gang recruits the whole class of 1999 to fight (this scene has a special meaning after Buffy got the “Class Protector” in The Prom) and even Wesley has a reason to fight behind the council’s back. At least one scene he was serious in; during the fight he was the laughing-stock again, which unfortunately wasn’t funny anymore.
Well, the high school is over, with the next season Buffy goes to college – a new life will begin, another one ended here. Angel had the perfect send-off, and now he can have his own show. Only Cordelia didn’t have the proper good bye. At least Harmony died (hm… she got bitten by a vampire; the writers wanted to make her a vampire, it is obvious after this particular scene). And Anya learned that she is in love with Xander.
By the way: The story with Buffy quitting the council is an interesting story, but the writers never really concentrate on this. Sure, the show is still called Buffy, but I wished to see something about a slayer quitting her job, because this seems “important” – a slayer quitting her job is unique and definitely interesting. And this would have been the latest perfect moment to introduce us to the council a bit more. But the producers didn’t, which is a shame.
And another BTW: The episode had some clues about the fifth season – Faith said something about a big sister, before she started to fight with Buffy. And not to forget the dream sequence with Buffy and Faith. Interesting how Joss Whedon planned ahead.
Good season finale. An era ended, and it ended really hard – the scooby gang survived high school. 8,5/10

Season average is 7,43. It probably won’t look that way, but the third season is my second favorite (after the fifth season). If the writers wouldn’t have pulled off so much filler episodes, the season definitely would be better and more interesting.

The Season Two Premiere of “Legend of the Seeker” has finally arrived! The second season is loosely based on Stone of Tears, which is second book in “The Sword of Truth” series by Terry Goodkind. Charisma Carpenter guest stars as Mord Sith Triana along with series regular Tabrett Bethell and the rest of the LOTS cast.

**POSSIBLE SPOILERS AHEAD**

In the season one finale “Reckoning”, Richard (Craig Horner) with the help of Mord Sith Cara (Tabrett Bethell) defeat Darken Rahl and fulfill the prophecy. People have begun rejoicing on the Seeker’s victory over Darken Rahl (Craig Parker) however the remaining Mord Sith along with some loyal D’Harans are without a leader. A banquet is being held in the Seeker’s honor but Richard although flattered, feels that he and Zedd should proceed with their journey in order to escort Kahlan (Bridget Regan) to Aydindril as that is where the Mother Confessor resides. The banquet is crashed by a screeling but Richard is able to lure the creature away. Here are the rest of the episode highlights:

• Darken Rahl is in the underworld and is greeted by the Keeper and vows that he will expand his dominion to the world above. Also there is no escape from death and the Seeker will belong to him (the Keeper).
• The Mord Sith gather and Triana (Charisma Carpenter) and Cara get into an altercation as she does not approve of Cara leading them as the Mord Sith have pledged their allegiance to serve the House of Rahl. Cara repeats to Triana that Darken Rahl is dead, but Triana rebuts and says that there must be another Rahl as their agiels would not work if there weren’t another Rahl next in line.
• Richard, Kahlan, and Zedd try to track down the screeling but they find a tear in the veil which separates the world from the living from the dead. That is how the screeling escaped from the underworld. The power of orden is what caused the tear and in order to repair it, Richard must seek the Stone of Tears which has been lost for quite some time.
• Back in town some D’Haran soldiers have requested to see Richard. They are not there to fight but to pledge their allegiance to the new Lord Rahl (aka Richard). The leader of the battalion explains to Richard that they have kept a secret for as long as Richard has been alive that he is Darken Rahl’s brother*. He describes that Panis Rahl learned of a prophecy where he (Panis Rahl) would father another child whom will kill Darken Rahl and therefore he disguised himself as a handsome young shepard and had a relationship with Zedd’s daughter who eventually gave birth to Richard. When Darken Rahl heard of this, he killed his father, but [Panis] was revived by a Mord Sith (hmm…I wonder if they are implying that Panis Rahl could still be alive) and the battalion leader sent a message to Zedd’s daughter (Richard’s mother) informing her that Darken Rahl had given orders to have every 1st born son in Brennidon killed. The battalion leader and his men have kept this secret so that one day they would serve to protect Richard…the new Lord Rahl.
• Triana is visited by Darken Rahl’s spirit and Darken Rahl has a special task for Triana but first he commands her to get rid of Cara.
• Zedd volunteers to go ahead and journey to Aydindril in order to find out info on the Stone of Tears. Richard once again wants to search then slay the screeling with the help of the battalion while Kahlan stays behind to protect the town.
• Cara and the other Mord Sith are out and about, but Triana and the others gang up on Cara, beat her up and take her agiel, and leave her for dead.
• Triana and the other Mord Sith head to town and take as many of the young girls with them including Rachel.
• Richard, Kahlan, and the battalion go out to save the children when they encounter Cara. Cara joins them as she wants revenge on her Mord Sith sisters but Kahlan questions Cara’s motives. Richard and the battalion decide to stage an attack to lure out the Mord Sith while Cara and Kahlan go and save the girls. The plan works. Then Cara goes after Triana and kills her with the agiel that Triana took from her.
• On Zedd’s journey he encounters Shota. She saves him time by telling him the info he seeks from Aydindril but she also shares a prophecy. She tells Zedd that he needs to name a new Seeker because Richard Rahl (aka Richard Cypher) will fail in defeating the Keeper. She further tells him that there will be 3 signs which will tell him that she speaks the truth and they are: 1.) Richard will deny that which gives him power 2.) He will embrace the one in Red 3.) He where bear the mark of the one who would destroy all life. She adds that if Zedd doesn’t act then, the Keeper will win.
• Richard, Kahlan, and the battalion return to town with the rescued girls. Zedd arrives and greets them and begins to tell Richard and Kahlan of his run in with Shota when the screeling returns. Richard is able to distract the creature as Zedd casts a spell and freezes the creature. Richard then slays the creature.
• Richard is anxious to begin their journey to seek the Stone of Tears. Originally Richard was going to go to the People’s Palace to declare himself to be the new Lord Rahl but decides against it. This is the first sign…Richard has denied what would give him power. Richard then tells Kahlan that he and Zedd will escort her to Aydindril first, find the Stone next, and he’ll come back for Kahlan afterward. (Aww…). Cara declares that she will join Richard in his quest. Richard is hesitant but accepts, this is the second sign…he has embraced the one in Red.
• Richard, Kahlan, Zedd, and Cara head to Aydindril but before they get there. Kahlan decides to stay with Richard in his journey to find the Stone of Tears. They make camp and while everyone is asleep, Richard is greeted by Darken Rahl’s spirit with a message that his efforts are futile and he will ultimately be for the Keeper. Darken Rahl then lays his hand on Richard’s chest which causes him pain. Richard suddenly wakes up from what seemed to be a bad dream but he holds his chest in pain and sees a hand print seared on his chest. This is the third sign, Richard bears the mark of the Keeper, the mark of the one who would destroy all of life.

*In the books, Darken Rahl is not Richard’s brother but Richard’s father. Check out my Book vs. Show post in order to find out the differences between the show and the first book, “Wizard’s First Rule”. On a random note, I thought the story line they came up with in regards to Panis Rahl disguising himself in order to fool Richard’s mother into having a relationship with him to be rather reminiscent of the movie “Excalibur”. In the film, Uther Pendragon convinces Merlin to cast a spell on him so that he can seduce someone’s wife. Oh well…creative liberties.

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Source: TV Guide

Craig Horner and Bridget Regan recently were interviewed by TV Guide to talk about the upcoming season of “Legend of the Seeker”. The pair shared some insight on what to expect for Season 2 including news about season premiere guest star Charisma Carpenter (“Buffy the Vampire Slayer”).

**NEW** Click here to watch the second part of TV Guide’s interview with the “Legend of the Seeker” stars where they answer fan questions!

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Aquí tenéis un sneak peek de Triana, el personaje al que interpreta Charisma Carpenter en la premiere de “The Legend of the Seeker” que se emite hoy en USA:

I really don’t know how to feel about Legend of the Seeker. On one hand it is a horrible bastardization of its source material. I mean, really bad. If you watch that show, don’t think you’re getting the Sword of Truth, because your not. The only thing tying the two together at this point is the characters, because the story is so far off the reservation, it’s not funny.

On the other hand, the sword and sorcery geek in me enjoys the shit outta that show, when put in its own context (i.e. pretending it’s not based on a series of books that I ADORE.) Raimi always has known how to tell a fun, if not a little cheesy, fantasy story. On top of that, he has an arsenal of delicious female actors that he keeps throwing at us. A little bit of ‘know thy audience’ I guess. This season he’s not pulling any punches as we have a a host of new hotties coming to the show.

After the jump we have three new hotties that will appear to make Richard’s life hell.

Tabrett Bethell returns as a full time cast member:

The power vacuum in D’Hara will force Cara to make a tense alliance with Richard- a prospect that Kahlan doesn’t like. Bethell will return to the show as a regular cast member.

Buffy alum Charisma Carpenter will guest star in skin tight leather:

That’s right. Delicious Charisma Carpenter will play a Mord’Sith who clashes with Cara and Richard. Apparently we get a fight scene between her and a dripping wet nekked Cara. That alone will be worth watching.

T’Pol will be a Sister of the Dark!

Jolene Blalock who played T’Pol on Star Trek Enterprise will have a recurring role as Sister of the Dark Nicci: a dark sorceress whose emotional damage is only surpassed by her obsession with the Seeker.

For a host of other LotS spoilers head over to Sci-fi Wire.

DS Out.

El último fin de semana, Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger y Bruce Willis se reunieron durante seis horas para rodar una de las escenas que Stallone está dirigiendo en ‘The Expendables’. Sly habló tras esta secuencia con Entertainment Weekly, revelando detalles acerca de esta escena central de 5 minutos que pondrá en marcha la película.

He aquí un extracto: “La escena cumbre tiene lugar en una iglesia, donde el antagonista Willis ha convocado a Stallone y sus mercenarios para finalmente encontrarse con él cara a cara, tomar un primer contacto, y posiblemente contratarle para una desafiante misión donde tendrá que retar a la muerte. Pero al igual que la reunión se pone en marcha con Stallone, Willis se reunirá con otro asesino a sueldo – antiguo rival de Stallone – , para ofrecerle el mismo trabajo: Ah-nuld”.

“Bruce me dice que hablará con otra persona antes de contratarme definitivamente. Y entonces Arnold, que interpreta a mi antiguo rival, entrará en la historia. Vamos de acá para allá y yo le digo que debí matarlo hace mucho tiempo, cuando tuve la oportunidad. Y allí estamos los tres, tratando entre nosotros, jugando con lo que somos”.

Con estreno programado para el 20 de agosto de 2010, la película también estará protagonizada por Terry Crews, Randy Couture, Eric Roberts, Mickey Rourke, Jet Li, Jason Statham, Dolph Lundgren, Charisma Carpenter, Giselle Itie, Brittany Murphy, David Zayas y Amin Joseph.

A few months ago I linked to some vids and pics from the forthcoming independent film Vivid, wot stars Charisma Carpenter (off of Buffy) and has Justin Hawkins (!) in it. Apparently they’ve renamed it Psychosis and now there’s a trailer! It’s very funny seeing Justin randomly pop up, impossible to miss:

I think I may go see it. Because of obvious reasons and also because it doesn’t really look very scary. I don’t like scary films so that’s good.

In other J-Hawk-related news, I’ve heard a clip of the song wot he done with Adam Lambert (who I think has a silly face, but that could just be me) called Music Again. IT SOUNDS JUST AS IMMENSE AS THEY ALL SAY WHEN YOU TYPE IT INTO GOOGLE!

I went back to Chester for the first time in six weeks this weekend, and saw one of my faveity bands Zombina and the Skeletones in Liverpool on Hallowe’en at the deserted Gaumont Cinema. It was pretty flipping ace. My dad is my gig-buddy, he took the pics, I do not have them for I am in Brum. It’s a shame but we’ll get to it.

Here are two clips from the upcoming Season Premiere of “Legend of the Seeker”. Season Two starts on November 7, 2009.

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Source: Legend of the Seeker – Official Website

Clip 1: Richard and Kahlan find Cara and it is a tense confrontation.

Clip 2: Guest star Charisma Carpenter (“Angel”) challenges Mord Sith Cara.

Aprovechando la publicación de dos nuevos Afiches, vamos  a revisar un par de películas de terror que llegarán a las pantallas en 2010.

La primera de ellas se titula ‘The Graves’, película con un reparto de jóvenes actores no demasiado conocidos – podríamos destacar a Tony Todd – en la que dos hermanas inseparables visitan un pueblo remoto minero. Su viaje se convierte en una endiablada lucha por la supervivencia frente a las amenazas tanto humanas como sobrenaturales a las que tendrán que enfrentarse.

La siguiente película se titula ‘Psychosis’, aquí si aparece una actriz más conocida como es Charisma Carpenter (Buffy la cazavampiros). la historia será la de una novelista en busca de un nuevo comienzo después de una depresión. Después de trasladarse con su esposo a una mansión en un pueblo hermoso de Gran Bretaña, ella comienza a tener visiones de una horrible masacre que ocurrió hace 15 años. Desesperada por demostrar que no está loca, Susan deberá descubrir los secretos que hay detrás de aquella masacre con el consiguiente riesgo que supondrá para ella misma.

Aquí tenéis la sinopsis y el poster de la nueva película de Charisma Carpenter, que se estrenará en USA en el 2010:

Sinopsis:

La esperanza de un nuevo comienzo después de una depresión aparece para la novelista Susan cuando se traslada con su esposo a una mansión en un pueblo hermoso de Gran Bretaña. Pero una vez allí, ella comienza a tener visiones de una horrible masacre que ocurrió hace 15 años. Desesperada por demostrar que no está loca, Susan deberá descubrir los secretos que hay detrás de aquella masacre con el consiguiente riesgo que supondrá para ella misma.

Poster:

Source: STYD

Hollywood Collectors & Celebrities Show  entrevistó a Charisma Carpenter sobre sus próximos proyectos:

Source: Legend of the Seeker – Official Website

The cast of “Legend of the Seeker” reveal secrets on what to expect for the upcoming second season in this new behind the scenes featurette. Craig Horner, Bridget Regan, Bruce Spence, Tabrett Bethell, and Craig Parker appear in this video along with some new clips from this season. Watch the season premiere of “Legend of the Seeker” on November 7, 2009.

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Source: Legend of the Seeker – Official Website

This is a scene from the Season 2 Premiere of “Legend of the Seeker”, which will air on November 7, 2009. In this scene Richard (Craig Horner) discovers a tear in the veil between the living and the dead. This is an extended scene from the Season 2 Sneak Peek video. Click here to watch the LoTS sneak peek video for more scene clips from the upcoming second season of “Legend of the Seeker”.

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Legend of the Seeker Season 2 Poster -- Image via Facebook

**UPDATE 10/28/09: Another LoTS poster has been added below.**

Check out the new promo poster for Season 2 of “Legend of the Seeker”! The season premiere for “Legend of the Seeker” will be on November 7, 2009. In other news, Bridget Regan who plays Kahlan Amnell on the show will be on the PIX Morning News on November 5, 2009. There is also going to be a LoTS (Legend of The Seeker) event in Times Square, NYC on that day as well according to Bridget Regan’s Twitter Page.

Click here to watch a sneak peek of Season 2 of “Legend of the Seeker”. Also check out a behind the scenes look at Season 2 with Tabrett Bethell (Mord Sith Cara). Plus visit the Legend of the Seeker official website as new Season 2 Episode Stills have been uploaded.

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The second unaired pilot came in 2001 and it was for a proposed animated series where Whedon got the cast, except Sarah Michelle Gellar, to be voice actors for the series.

The series was proposed to Fox Kids but didn’t see the light of day when Fox Kids ceased operations. Fox tried to sell it to other networks but nothing materialized.

The series was supposed to take place between season one, episodes 7 and 8 so that no contradiction in future events or a disruption in the continuity of the show would occur. Thirteen scripts were written for the series with various Buffy writers contributing including Jane Espensen, Steven DeKnight and Doug Petrie. The pilot was written by comic book writer Jeph Loeb and Joss Whedon.

The series style would be vastly influenced by the Batman: The Aminated Series style, one of Whedon’s favorite cartoons, and co-creator of that series Bruce Timm was even brought in to do concept sketches.

It took almost seven years, August 2008, before fans were able to catch a glimpse of the animated version of Buffy. An almost 4 minute version of the pilot leaked onto the Internet and Buffy fans went wild as they thought new life had come to the franchise.

Why they never took another run at this concept recently I don’t know. Joss Whedon is having huge success with his Buffy Season 8 comics at Dark Horse Comics and if Mel Brooks can get Cartoon Network to make a Spaceballs animated series they would lap this series up like a cat to cream.

We need a Buffy animated series and who cares when it takes place in continuity. One idea might be to take the Dark Horse comics and turn them into scripts or revisit the 13 lost scripts from this series. At least give us an animated movie? Actually that is an untapped market that Fox hasnt looked into yet, taking their franchises and turning them into DVD animated movies. (ie: Buffy, Serenity, Alien, Predator, etc) Warner Bros and Disney are making money hand over fist that way.

Anyway of the almost 4 minutes I saw, I am drooling for more especially if they could coax someone like Bruce Timm to show-run the series.

Pilot Score: 4 out of 5 (based on potential)

Four-minutes of the series can be seen on HERE.

After Buffy the Vampire Slayer feature film failed to generate any box office, Joss Whedon took the concept to the newly formed WB network. His first pilot for the proposed series had the same snappy dialogue, a new stronger leading lady (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and a new mentor (Anthony Head).

What was gone from feature version was the overly silly humor, a laughable high school boyfriend and well taskmaster Donald Sutherland.

The first pilot also introduced the Scooby Gang but with noticeable differences, well, Alyson Hannigan wasnt in the original pilot and Joss Whedon directed this pilot opposed to the one that actually aired.

The pilot opens with two high school students breaking into their school’s theatre. One of those students would become very well known to Buffy fans later on as Darla, or actress Julie Benz. The whole plot of the pilot revolves around Darla coming to Sunnydale.

The pilot then shifts to Buffy walking up the steps at the high school where she meets the principal (Stephen Tobolowsky). Its quite funny as he keeps screwing up her name and there is so much foreshadowing to where the series is going. Tobolowsky would be replaced later with Armin Shimerman.

Riff Regan, the original Willow

The next scene is of Willow and Xander. Original Willow is played by Riff Regan, was over-weight, brainy, awkward and insecure. (even more than the Hannigan version) The actress playing Willow didn’t really bring any depth to the character in the pilot and you can see why she was recast. In every scene, she just smiles and drops her chin shyly. Other than Willow you have all the regular cast in the pilot Cordelia, Rupert Giles, Harmony, etc.

One hysterical line comes when the girls in the locker room complaining about the new girl’s name “Buffy, what kind of name is that?” Then the girl turns around and says, “Hi Aphrodisia.” It was that kind of writing that made Joss Whedon huge and its all evident in this pilot.

The unaired pilot is only 25 minutes but it does show the brilliance of the show before it even really emerged. The tweaking with the concept and how Joss Whedon moved the tone of the whole concept makes this pilot way, way superior than the feature film. But a lot of that recognition can be awarded to Joss Whedon taking a chance on a cast unknowns. That is the brilliance of this pilot as you can see just how raw Buffy was in the beginning and how it all paid off.

I am not sure why this pilot never ended up on the Buffy DVD sets. Maybe we will see it when Buffy moves to Blu-Ray.

Pilot Score: 4.5 out of 5

The pilot can be seen here:

Source: Legend of the Seeker’s Official Website

Here is a Season 2 Behind the Scenes Preview with Tabrett Bethell as Cara on the set of “Legend of the Seeker”. Last season Bethell was introduced as Mord Sith Cara and she returns this season as a series regular. “Legend of the Seeker” is a syndicated TV show based upon the “Sword of Truth” book series by Terry Goodkind.

Check out this sneak peek video of Season 2 of “Legend of the Seeker”, which begins airing new episodes on November 7, 2009. The complete first season of “Legend of the Seeker” is currently available on DVD now, or you can watch full episodes online either on Hulu or the show’s official website.

Charisma Carpenter aparecerá en la premiere de la segunda temporada de “Legend of the Seeker”, una serie rodada en Nueva Zelanda y que aún no ha llegado a España.

En esta serie saldrá interpretando a una guerrera llamada Triana, especialista en hacer daño.

Aquí tenéis unas cuantas fotos:

Charisma Carpenter asistió al “Hollywood Collector’s and Celebrities Show”. Os dejo unas cuantas fotos de esta preciosa actriz, excompañera de David Boreanaz:

The story follows a team of mercenaries who head to South America on a mission to overthrow a dictator.

This trailer might be pulled down by Lionsgate very soon, so check it out now while you still can!

Forest Whitaker, Eric Roberts, Jet Li, Jason Statham, Dolph Lundgren, Mickey Rourke et Sylvester Stallone dans un même film ? Il y a des années de ça, vous l’auriez pas cru, et pourtant, voici venir The Expendables, dont la date de sortie est prévue pour l’été 2010 (le 20 Août aux USA) et la première bande-annonce nous est enfin révélée.

Putain ce que ça a l’air con. Et par là même ce film a l’air totalement jouissif, nous renvoyant directement aux années 80, où le cinéma d’action s’illustrait par sa violence gratuite, ses scénarios insensés, et ses personnages cartoonesques et bodybuildés, et non pas par une foultitude d’effets spéciaux, des scènes d’action lissées, et une violence graphique aseptisée. Il y a des explosions, des gunfights, une scène de combat entre Jet Li et Dolph Lundgren, Jason Statham torse nu et Rourke sur une moto !

On dirait une fusion de Commando de Demolition Man et de Rambo 4, ce qui est complètement génial.