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The Slayer, Who she is.. and How
Sarah Michelle Gellar plays Buffy Anne Summers, who is destined to save the world
She is the chosen one....the slayer.. A girl with the strength and skill to hunt and kill the demons,
vampires, and the forces of darkness. Her duty was to rid the earth of evil, and protect all those
good. Chosen when she was a young 15 yr old girl, attending hembry high in LA, Buffy soon learns the
ups and downs, the perks, and the disadvantages of what it means to be the slayer. Along with what it
means to be expelled from school after burning down the school gym! So, the summers pack up and move
to Sunnydale
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Season 1 : Starting Over
With a fresh new start, Buffy now has to make friends, and stay out of trouble. The only problem with
that is that there is a hellmouth where she is living, which attracts all different kinds of evil, not
just vampires. On her first day of school, Buffy begins to make friends with Cordelia Chase, but after
finding out how shallow Cordy is, turns to Willow Rosenberg, Xander Harris & Jesse. It seems that where ever
Buffy turns theres evil, with a dead boy turning up in a peers locker on her first day. Not to mention the creepy
librarian who has books on vampyres, and demons. Could this be her new watcher????
Through out the season, Buffy slays many vampires, falls in love with one, hurts her friends feelings, lose the
trust of her mum, gets thrown across the bronze, dies and much much more. But the season finale sees her prevail and
be revived from her unconscious state, in enough time to kill the marster!
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Season 2 : Relationships - their ups and downs!
Returning from her vacation, Buffy has got a new, not-so-nice attitude, which everyone is disliking!
She even taunts xander and angel, and puts her friends through much pain. But after she gets her act
together, she is back on patrol duty and kicking ass as usual. From facing inca mummy girls, to the two new vamps in town, or even
letting go of her childhood crush, Buffy faces it all, and seems to become alot stronger after every battle.
The only disastor in which Buffy weckens, is on her Birthday, when she and Angel heat things up in a night of
passion causing Angel to lose his soul, and revert to Angelus. Therefore now theres a new evil to face which is
wrecking havoc through the town of Sunnydale.
As if that wasn't enough, but now theres more for willow and xander to deal with, but more in the favourable way.
As we find out the passion Willow holds for xander, in which he doesn't share! Xander falls for his
arch-nemisis Cordy, and a broken hearted Willow turns to a senior for comfort! This is where Oz enters the picture, and becomes
Willow security blanket, and long-term boyfriend.
Also entering the scene is the second slayer Kendra. The slayer who was activated when Buffy died in the finale of Season 1.
So they team up together to beat Spike, but in the finale, kendra dies. The finale of this season is a heart wrenching, powerful
episode which forces Buffy to let go of her one true love, by sending him to hell. Although without a soul he deserves, in the nick of time,
Angel's soul is restored, and Buffy must face the hardest decision in her life! With a final swing, Buffy sends Angel to hell, and leaves town.
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Season 3 : Moving On / Ascending
First episode we notice Buffy in a different case scenerio. She is now living in LA and working at a diner, trying to escape her past, only for evil
to rare its ugly head right in front of her, and bring her down with it. Its either remembering who she actually is, or dieing to forget it.
After returning to Sunnydale, Buffy finds its not as she left it, The Scooby Gang have now taken over slaying, they have formed a tight little bond, and
seem to be doing just fine with out Buffy, a little too fine. So Buffy considers bolting yet again, but in the ends stays. With rekindling friendships, and free
time of Buffy's hands (no school,got kicked out) she makes lunchs and visits the gang off campus until she can start school again. One night, whilst partying at the bronze,
the gang notice a disco dave, and slut-o-rama dancing, and follow them outside only to notice that the girl is taking care of the vamp, and dusted him in a second. Shes faith
the third slayer, and she seems to love her job.... Danger follows faith, but it always did. After sometime as working as buffy's little under dog, Faith turns evil and teams
up with the mayor in hope of destroying sunnydale. Xander and Willow's relationship take a different turn, which causes their relationships to go awry. Willow and Oz make up
and forgive, and are better than ever, but Cordy never full forgives Xander. With Angel back from Hell, things start to heat up there to, but not all the way. Which forces the
two lovers to realise there reality facing doom, that they can never be fully together, so Angel breaks it off and moves to LA.....
The finale ends with the school going out in a big bang, the mayor's ascention and the way the kill the 100% pure demon.
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Season 4 : Rising to a new level
The gang is off to college, except Xander, who travels to begin with, but then ends up becoming everyones little lap dog.
Yet again another relationship form, this time between Anya and Xander, whilst Buffy and Willow try to cope with their rooms.
After a couple of episodes, Buffy's roommate turns out to be evil, therefore leaving a position vacant for Willow to move in,
being room buddies again. Buffy gets played for a fool at first, falling for the college playboy only to be tricked into a night she regrets.
Buffy soon becomes good friends with a TA, known as Riley Finn. The only problem is that he has a secret identity as well, but nobody knows it as of yet!
Riley and Buffy become close and descover each others identity, therefore teaming up to kill the vampires and demons. After a while the iniative crashs to
the floor, showing its true colours. Big relationship changes in this one, which Oz leaving Willow to find his inner-self, and willow finding her heart in the hands
of another female, Tara. Buffy most overcome all evil in hope of stopping the ever powerful Adam, a robot created to wreck havoc and never be stopped. The combine all
the powers of the scooby gang, to finally defeat adam in a explosive episode.
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Season 5 : Leaving home, & Death is reality
This season is facing all the realities of death.. Who dies???? ah thats a question and a half. First of all enters Buffy's sister Dawn, who is just a glimmer, and was
created in the form of a human to be under the protection of the slayer. They all believe that Dawn is really Buffy's sister, as the monks made Dawn out of her, she is the key
in which the evil hell-god Glory is searching for the entire season. When Buffy finds out who she really is, its a little weird to begin with but afterwards, the play along.
Technically all they can remember is growing up with Dawn, so they don't remember anything different, so to everyone else Dawn is buffy's sister and will always be.
Half way through the season Riley feeling under loved, ends up leaving sunnydale and Buffy and retreating back to the Army, where he feels useful.
Just after that, Joyce passes away from her cancer, and leaves Buffy and Dawn to fend for themselves.
The finale here is a heart-wrenching dramatically terrible episode, which faces the real issue of death. Glory finds out who Dawn really is, and the summers fled, only to be caught by Glory,
With the gates to hell opened, and only Dawn's blood can close to portal Buffy must face a difficult decision on what to do... It concludes with Buffy remembering flash backs throughout the
season, talking about how Dawns blood is Buffy's blood, how the monks made her out of Buffy, and how they are one. As Dawn realises what Buffy is about to do, she trys to protest, only to Buffy tell
her exactly why she is doing this. The final scene is Buffy jumping of into the portal, and falling to her death.. then we see the tomb stone which reads -
Buffy Anne Summers : Devoted Friend, & Loving Sister : She Saved the World Alot
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Season 6 : Not viewable in Australia
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