Buffy & Angel Chronicles Gift Set

Customer reviews:

Love Death and Passion, 2002-06-11
These three video cassettes contain some of the best moments of Buffy history. In "Surprise" and "Inocense" we find out more about Angel's curse, and Jenny's betrayl. It is two of the most well exectuted episodes in BtVS...oh and 'There was this whole thing with an arm in a box'...

Next we have two episodes depicting the death of Jennifer Calendar or Jhanna. In an effort to kill of a loved one of Buffy's and keep the curse away Angel brutally slaughters Jenny in a Sunnydale Highschool hallway. At the end of Passions we see Jenny's tombstone. It doesn't read her actual name 'Jhanna'...it reads Jennifer Calendar. She was forgiven, but she payed the price for her actions, in fact she payed too much.

And last, but certainly not least we have the two-part ending called "Becoming"...Buffy finally confronts her ex-lover Angel in a sword-wielding duel. After Jenny and Kendra's death, Buffy has no choice but to go after 'the fiend' that has hurt and killed the ones she loved. I won't spoil the ending, because most of you know what happens and to those who don't need a little surprise in their life ;)...These six episodes are a must for any fan and can suck in a non-buffy person into the show in a heart-beat (or lack there of ;)) I'd suggest this to everyone with, or without a pulse. Pick these videos up NOW...NOW what do you think your doing just sitting there reading this review. GET THESE VIDEO's...or get the DVD's which were just released today...In fact get the dvd's they will be better...;)

Staking A Claim On Love, 2002-05-09
This is the story arc that made the series. Buffy actually reached its peak in its third season, but what hooked legions of fans on the series were the episodes in this set - the conclusion of the second season, in which Buffy's unlikely but sympathetic vampire boyfriend became, instead, her undead lover, and in so doing lost his soul.

There's no better place to start watching Buffy than with these episodes. The love and affection built up between Buffy and Angel reaches its pinnacle, and then immediately goes south. Angel loses his soul as the result of a curse, and becomes what he was before he knew Buffy: the most evil and sadistic killer in European history. He joins forces with the two vampires he made himself, centuries before, Spike and Drusilla. Spike is Buffy's present nemesis and the killer of two previous Slayers, and Drusilla is Angel's crowning achievement, a gifted religious psychic whom he systematically drove out of her mind before making her an eternally undead blood-drinker.

As Buffy's great love, David Boreanaz plays Angel as a loveable lug - as Angelus, the scourge of Europe, he is the fiercest and most vile opponent Buffy ever faced. The episodes in this set show him at his skin-crawling worst: stalking, playing sadistic cat-and-mouse games, and murdering the loved ones of Buffy and her friends to demoralize her before going in for the final kill. Buffy has to defeat her own emotions to go up against him, and in the end has her sanity blasted to ashes by having to send Angel to Hell in order to prevent an apocalypse - after he regains his lost soul.

This is tear-jerker drama at its best, amazingly intense without degenerating into soap-opera. These episodes are extremely well-written and -acted, sufficiently that even newcomers to the show will no doubt enjoy them simply on their own merit.

Fans need no recommendation to watch these tapes. As for you newcomers, remember the inscription over Dante's Hellmouth: "Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here" - for to watch these episodes is to fall hopelessly in love with Buffy, and become hooked.