Buffy The Vampire Slayer

23rd March 2004

And so it ends. I now have a copy of the sixth and final disc of the Season 7 Buffy The Vampire Slayer set, and can now provide more details about the set’s bonus materials.

Disc six contains the bulk of the set’s bonus features:

It’s titled Season 7 Overview - Buffy: Full Circle (36m) on the menu screen, but this featurette is actually called Full Circle: Buffy’s Final Season on screen. This is the customary summary of the season. It includes contributions from many of the key behind the scenes crew members, including lesser-spotted Executive Story Editor Rebecca Rand Kirshner, writer Drew Goddard and Story Editor Drew Z. Greenberg. Cast members contributing include Alyson Hannigan (yay!), James Marsters, Michelle Trachtenberg, Tom Lenk and D.B. Woodside. Sarah Michelle Gellar is, as usual, conspicuous by her absence.

Buffy Wraps (5m) is footage from the show’s wrap party, featuring interviews with Joss Whedon, Marti Noxon and many of the cast members, including some from the show’s earlier seasons. It seems that Sarah Michelle Gellar’s invitation got lost in the post.

Outtakes (4m) is a fun collection of goofy moments and fluffed lines. You’ll get to see dancing uber-vamps, Nicholas Brendon having a sneeze attack, and a bit more of the Troika as gods. No Sarah Michelle Gellar was harmed during the making of this segment.

Generation S (8m) focuses on the Potentials, and includes interviews with Felicia Day (Vi), Iyari Limon (Kennedy), Indigo (Rona) and Sarah Hagan (Amanda). Ms Gellar did not require a limo to take her to the set the day this was filmed.

The Last Sundown (9m) is "Joss Whedon’s look back at his ten favourite episodes in the Buffy mythology and his thoughts on bringing the acclaimed series to life and to a close". Sarah’s Make-up Supervisor took the day off.

Easter Egg (1m) accessible from the Featurettes menu - The Gift montage.

The disc also includes adverts for Firefly and "television’s most original sci-fi series" (err, okay, if you say so) Roswell.

A few new menu shots, and two photo’s from the Outtakes section, are available here. (The previous page of menu images is still available, here).

Network’s 3rd Rock From The Sun - Season 1 DVD has been pencilled in for release on May the 17th.

There have been a few interesting things certificated at the BBFC in the last week or so.

The original version of Leatherface - Texas Chainsaw Massacre III, previously rejected outright by the Board in May 1990, has been re-submitted and finally cleared (it will appear alongside the cut version in a two-disc edition from Entertainment in Video on April the 19th).

IMC Vision has submitted the recent ITV series Between The Sheets.

Deleted scenes, a featurette and an Easter Egg, totalling 17’20", for Catherine Hardwicke’s acclaimed Thirteen have been submitted by Universal.

Two trailers, a twenty-two minute Making of... and Perform Jane Mansfield and I’m Blue (6m) were submitted in support of Kill Bill - Volume 1, along with the teaser trailer for Kill Bill Volume 2.

Finally, Columbia has cleared a four-minute promotional Exclusive Sneak Peek featurette for Spider-Man 2 and seven featurettes destined for the Spider-Man Director’s Edition DVD. The featurettes total thirty-two minutes worth of material, broken down like this:

00:02:17:01 | WORLD UNITY FESTIVAL 00:02:46:00 | WRESTLING MATCH 00:03:22:01 | OSCORP LAB 00:06:17:21 | DESIGNING THE WORLD OF SPIDER-MAN 00:07:25:19 | GOBLIN’S ARSENAL 00:08:25:15 | COSTUME DESIGN 00:01:28:21 | SPIDER WRANGLER

The winners of last week’s Alien - Special Edition competition are Jack Stanford, The Green Goblin (not The Green Goblin, surely!), Roger Shore, Sam LeBaron and Wendie Park. The correct answer to the question "Which acclaimed artist designed the Alien creature?" was H.R.Giger.

The winners of The X-Files - Season 8 DVD sets are Dennis Conley and Jamie Wilson. They both knew that the answer to the question "Which Terminator film featured The X-Files star Robert Patrick?" was "The one with the morphing T1000".

My congratulations to them, and my thanks to Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, who provided the prizes.