Faith Returns to Buffy

duffbeer writes "According to an article at Yahoo!, Eliza Dushku will be in the upcoming Buffy season 7! Five episodes are scheduled, along with three over on Angel. Now starting the oft-mentioned space-cowboy-thriller Firefly on Fox, I wonder if Joss have enough juice left over to invent plots for Faith as entertaining as those in the past?" Since the Slayer line has to continue through Faith, and since Gellar wants to leave the show after season 7, there is much interesting plot potential with Faith's return.

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Definatly news for Nerds.

[EvilBastard]

Find a show on TV today showing a better role model for the 'nerds' of the generation, even without getting into the whole gay/bisexual nerds can be important also subplot.

Take the quiet kid at school, bit of an outsider, not liked by anyone except an old male friend. In her spare time, she browses the town's computers systems, and has 'Accidentally' broken into pretty much every computer in the town [1]

Then a superhero turns up, saves her life and gives her some direction and a new sense of priorities. She begins spreading further and wider, meets up with another nerd crossing old tech and new tech, picks up on that and forges a valuable weapon in the defense of the world (althout she did accidentally releases a self-multiplying daemon onto the internet, a bit like Robert Morris, Jr did [2]). She even ends up teaching some classes in Highschool to people her own age[3].

She gets offered a job at the worlds largest software manufacturer [4], and pretty much every university in the world [5] but turns it down to fight evil instead. When the highschool is threatened, the athletic and the popular kids turn to her as one of the few people who can help [6].

Arriving in College, still the outsider, she still wanders around before finally discovering that there are other people like her, and when they get together there is practically nothing they cannot do [7] including giving her the power to attack a God [8], take over as the leader of the team that defends Earth from Hell for six months [9], and when her lover is killed she decides to destroy the entire world to save everyone from the pain of living[10]

If that's not a path to base your entire life on, I don't know what is. Also, she's the only person to ever have a iMac laptop upgraded with the telepathic optional kit, making it actually useful.

Personally, I hope that SMG does quit so they can have the Scooby Gang series : Willow, Xander, Giles and Dawn. Other people won't agree with me, but there's more stories to work with if they have to remake the Slayer out of her clone with Faith's Assistance, then by continuing with Buffy

(In case you were keeping count:
[1] Welcome to the Hellmouth
[2] I Robot, You Jane
[3] Passion
[4] What's My Line
[5] Choices
[6] Graduation Day
[7] Hush
[8] Tough Love
[9] Barganing
[10] Grave)

Did you even *watch* season 6?

[fingerbear]

Sure, there were a few weak points (like the card-shark-demon-guy who actually looked like a shark) but Season 6 also had some of my favorite Buffies ever:

1. "Smashed" (the one where Spike and Buffy finally hook up, oblivious to the building crumbling around them)
   
2. "Once More With Feeling" (C'mon, they were all singing! That's awesome!!)
   
3. "Normal Again" (where Buffy must choose between her screwed up reality and a safe, vampire-free future in a mental hospital)
   

This is the best-written show on TV. I will watch until they stop making them, and I hope that's not anytime soon.

Re:Did you even *watch* season 6?

[Anonymous Coward]

Sure, there were a few weak points (like the card-shark-demon-guy who actually looked like a shark)

That wasn't a weak point. In fact, it was foreshadowed/prophecied over a year earlier in the end of season 4 episode. If you rewatch that, you'll notice Spike wearing the same suit in both episodes AND they'll talk about a shark... on land... with feet. I found that hilarious.