Holy Cow you guys, Buffy Season 9 is really, really good! Joss kept his promise! I lieu of a paragraphed format, I'm going with a bullet point format today.
*The stories have become much smaller and more intimate. No more cosmic nonsense
* While the previous season got pretty stupid, it did lead to some interesting consequences like:
* no more connection to magic means no more demons inhabiting humans when a new vampire is made. This has created a race of Vampires that have all the higher brain functions of fast zombies (yes, they call them Zompires, and I love it)
* The new big bad is a being that is absorbing the residual magic left in the world. Basically he is sucking the life force out of the Slayers.
*Also, Willow is like, super bummed.
Finally, there is a really interesting story where Buffy thinks she is pregnant and wants to get an abortion. It's a pretty heavy topic and I thought they were handling it very well, but I was disappointed that they dodged the consequences by making Buffy not actually pregnant. I wasn't necessarily cheering for an abortion, but Buffy's struggle with the decision was one of the most gripping story lines she's ever had, and I really wanted to see what was going to happen. The story they went with turned out to be pretty entertaining and fun, but I would have liked to have seen how they would have handled Buffy actually having gone through with the procedure. Oh well, at least they are back to making stories that are at least worth having thoughts about.
8/10
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