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Buffy - Complete Seasons 1-7 New and sealed

Buffy the Vampire Slayer is an American television series based upon the 1992 film of the same name. The original concept, screenplay, and TV series were created by writer/director Joss Whedon under his personal production tag, Mutant Enemy Productions. The show's title is often abbreviated simply to Buffy or BtVS.The series follows the day-to-day life of the Slayer, Buffy Summers, a teenage girl chosen by fate to battle against vampires, demons, and other supernatural foes. She is often aided by her Watcher and her loyal circle of friends.Writer Joss Whedon developed Buffy as an intentional inversion of the pervasive horror film formula, in which young girls are typically depicted as helpless, hysterical victims of violence. Whedon's vision featured a young woman who was not only an exceptional fighter but also a powerful leader without sacrificing her femininity. By reversing the cliché of the helpless female victim, Buffy presented an alternative paradigm embraced by many as an emblem of female power - in Whedon's narrative, Buffy's male friend Xander is more likely to need rescuing, while Buffy is more than capable of looking after herself and those around her. However, her personal life is as painful and confusing as any teenage girl's. This combination of empowerment and empathy has earned Buffy a passionate following among fans, giving the show a cult status.Whedon's other "mission statement" was to employ supernatural elements as metaphors for personal anxieties, particularly those associated with adolescence and young adulthood. Throughout its run, the show developed a substantial contemporary mythology and addressed a large number of common emotional and cultural themes.On the basis of a 30-minute presentation sometimes called the unaired Buffy pilot, the WB Network bought the show. The WB advertised the show with a History of the Slayer promotional video clip. Buffy the Vampire Slayer first aired on March 10, 1997 on the WB network; after five seasons it transferred to the United Paramount Network (UPN) for its final two seasons. The last episode aired on May 20, 2003. Buffy is credited with playing a key role in the growth of the Warner Bros. television network in its early years. The show maintained relatively low ratings (typically lower than 90th place per week) but attracted a great deal of attention and performed well in key youth demographics.The series tells the story of Buffy and her friends, sometimes referred to as the Scooby Gang or the Scoobies, as they battle demons and other supernatural evils while negotiating their own complicated social and romantic lives. Buffy is told in a dual arc serialized format, with each episode both telling a single story and contributing to a larger overall storyline, which on Buffy is broken down into distinct season-long narratives marked by the rise and defeat of a powerful antagonist (commonly referred to as the "Big Bad"). Individual episodes usually contain one or more villains, monsters, or supernatural phenomena which are defeated, or merely survived, by the episode's end. Though many elements and relationships are explored and many ongoing subplots are included, the show's primary focus throughout is on Buffy and her role as an archetypal hero.The show is noteworthy in part for its blending of genres, including horror, martial arts, romance, melodrama, farce, screwball comedy, and even (in one memorable episode) musical comedy. Unlike the marginally successful movie, of which Whedon himself is somewhat critical, the TV series achieved popular and critical success, appreciated equally by mainstream TV critics and its target audience of young viewers. Fans of the show attribute its success to clever and unusual writing, a strong sense of ongoing story, and a sense of deeper meaning and metaphor. Whedon has said "I designed Buffy to be an icon" and "the shows are intentionally designed to create cults"The show received an Emmy Award nomination for the 2000 episode "Hush", which featured an extended sequence with no character dialogue. The 2001 episode "The Body" revolved around the death of Buffy's mother, and was filmed with no musical score, only diegetic music; it was included in over 100 major critics' "Ten Best" lists that year. The fall 2001 musical episode "Once More, with Feeling", also received many plaudits, but was omitted from Emmy nomination ballots by accident.  All three episodes were written and directed by Joss Whedon, and are frequently cited as fan favorites.PACKAGING: Brand new and SealedDISC NUMBER: 39SUBTITLES: English, Spanish & ChineseFORMAT: NTSC & PALThis is an Official Asian Release

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