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转自P2PTV, Season 4 [DVDRIP]
【类 型】: 剧情/魔幻/动作
【影片长度】: 平均44分钟
【集 数】: 全季共22集
【字 幕】: 英文/中文（射手网）
【服 务 器】: IA MEDIA （注：请不要连美国的服务器，多半都是间谍服务器，只会阻碍P2P传输）
【分享时间】: 00:00--24:00
【格 式】: DVDRip by AMC/English Audio
【内容简介】:
"Our goals are similar. We're each interested in curtailing the sub-terrestrial menace. It's only our methods that differ. We use the latest in scientific technology and state-of-the-art weaponry and you - if I understand this correctly - poke them with a sharp stick." - Lindsay Crouse as Professor Maggie Walsh in "Doomed"
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Complete Fourth Season DVD Review
By Marlo Serritella
Ugh. It was bound to happen. In my love affair with Buffy the Vampire the Slayer, season four can best be described as our first fight. Angel (David Boreanaz) is gone - off in L.A. fighting demons with Cordelia (Charisma Carpenter) in spin-off land. High school is over. In fact, we can't even hope for any fun reunions with Giles (Anthony Head) in the library since the school went and got all blowed-up at the end of Season Three. There's definitely some serious division among Buffy fans as to whether or not the fourth season is as good as the previous three. In case you haven't figured out which camp I fall into, I'll be blunt. Season four is not my favorite. Now, that being said, you have to remember that Buffy on its worst day is still better television that most other shows on their best day. (And just to be clear, there is no such thing as the "worst" of Buffy, I was just trying to illustrate a point.) I'm judging Buffy harshly this season based on what's come before-which was nothing short of flawless in its commentaries on everything from first loves to substitute teachers. It's not so much that this season lacks great moments. On the contrary, as I re-watched Season Four on DVD, I was reminded that there is no shortage of the show's trademark wit, spectacular dialogue, poignant lessons and stellar acting. Unfortunately this season's main story-arc, including a new love (yuck) and a new villain (snooze), just didn't resonate with this Buffy fan. It left me feeling a bit like I did after my first year of college-wondering where the hell this was all going.
Let's get right to it, then. It's time for our college lessons. Sweet-talking hottie in the lunch line will bed you and dump you; he doesn't even need to be a demon ("Harsh Light of Day"). I guess Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) knows what goes bump in the night, but she hasn't figured out that boys like the sex without the strings. Let's not forget that the last guy she had sex with turned into a demonic maniac. You may be shocked to hear me being so hard on Buffy. Trust me; by this point in the series, you'll be protective of this little gal too. Ok, so big mistake with rebound guy, check. Next, beer is not just foamy. Drink too much and you may turn into a Neanderthal complete with hairy knuckles and a bad vocabulary ("Beer Bad"). If your gut is telling you that your boyfriend is cheating on you, take heed. He's probably making wild-werewolf love with that beeotch who you were suspicious of in the first place ("Wild At Heart"). And how about those assigned college roommates? Evil, soul-sucking, two-faced, milk-labeling freaks ("Living Conditions"). Done. Oh, and frat parties continue to be a bad idea. This time instead of being sacrificed to a snake god, the gang gets all haunted by some sexually repressed dead kids ("Where the Wild Things Are"). Ultimately though, even if you are wearing last season's jeans, need a map to find your way around, and the campus cool kids are vampires who want to steal your stuff and kill you dead; you'll be ok. It's just college ("Freshman").
Riley, Riley, Riley. I tried so hard to like you. I really did. He's sorta cute. He really loves Buffy, and he's quite the evil-fighter. Doesn't matter. In some ways, you have to feel sorry for the Buffy writers. Come on, were they ever going to create a love-interest after Angel that the audience wouldn't reject? Probably not. But did he have to be such a goofy, vanilla bore? It's not even that I believe there's no one else Buffy can fall for besides Angel. (Stay tuned to the coming seasons when I'll be weeping over my favorite Buffy love, Spike). But why is it when he talks about Buffy in the most earnest and sincere way, saying, "she is the truest soul I've ever known," that I want to puke ("A New Man"). There's also a whole painful sequence where he keeps calling her "peculiar" that is still like nails on a chalkboard for me. My first clue about Riley (Marc Blucas) should have been that he could never make me laugh. It's like how I felt when Letterman did his Uma/Oprah shtick. It just never worked for me. Riley's very black and white worldview never made sense in the Buffy universe. It's telling that when Buffy briefly allies herself with her new boyfriend's clandestine, demon-hunting, army troop, they force her to use a gun. Buffy does not arm herself with guns. Period. This particular gun has also been sabotaged by Riley's superior (and weird mother figure), Professor Walsh, who, jealous of Riley's affection for Buffy, wants Buffy dead. Bottom line-I'm not sure Riley ever really understood who Buffy was. And it was painful to watch him try and figure her out.
But I'm getting ahead of myself. You really need to understand the larger context of this season's main story line to appreciate my saltiness. Once upon a time, there were some very, very bad men. They began something called the "government." They think that they do everything better than everyone else, and they don't like girls (especially cute ones that can kick ass). So they figure out that there are demons and decide to fund a massive, secret operation complete with army guys, scientists and a plan to handle the problem in an outfit known as the "Initiative." The plan, which we don't learn until the end of the season, "represents the government's interest in not only controlling the otherworldly menace, but in harnessing its power for our own military purposes" ("Primeval"). Gee, wonder how this is gonna go? I don't know about you, but the minute I laid eyes on the freaky-deaky containment cells used for the "hostile sub-terrestrials" (they're army, they have to make up a complicated name for "monster") and heard about the experiments being performed on the incarcerated beasties, I couldn't help but think these guys have a little too much in common with another failed little government group-the freakin' Nazis. (For the record, I will be proven correct four years later in an episode of Angel.) Did I mention Riley is part of this government-funded monster squad? Of course, they're not performing experiments so that they can help prevent demon-diabetes. They're making an all-powerful cyborg named "Adam" who is actually a human/demon hybrid who has been assembled largely from the parts of captured demons. Ultimately, he breaks free, rebels against his creator (who could have seen that coming?) and organizes a death match of humans vs. demons in order to generate enough body parts to assemble a whole bunch of other cyborgs. I'm sure that among the many lessons in this quaint little tale is something about magic vs. science and natural vs. supernatural. Buffy was given her powers by a divine force. Demons don't care if yo
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发表于 2021-7-30 20:55:36