Yes, I'm still hooked on Buffy, even after so long, enough so that I'm scrounging up money to buy the DVDs-- and it's absolutely worth it. The quality's excellent, and the commentary on some of the episodes is worth it alone.
Season Three is of course excellent, as is the rest of the show, especially since this season features the other Slayer, Faith, one of my favorite characters. Established, mainstream relationships on TV shows in particular tend to bore me, but the continuation of the Angel/Buffy plotline in this season is, thanks to the genius of Joss, the writers, and the actors, painfully accurate to life, and exquisite. All other relationships, romantic and not (like Buffy and Giles, Oz and Willow, even the evil Mayor and Faith), reach the same level, which is a great feat on a show that's supposedly just about vampires and demons. The episode "The Wish" is in S3, too, which is the now-infamous alternate universe established by the writers-- it's, in my opinion, one of the best episodes in all of Buffy.
The special effects this season are a little silly, as they're still somewhat low-budget this early on, but the acting more than makes up for it. It's brilliant, and I'd more than recommend it. |