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Titolo: Buffy, Season 7: Fashion Showcase and vampire slaying...

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http://www.thread.co.nz/article/350
By Megan Johnson
New season seven Buffy and our fave demon-ass kicking, vampire slaying TV
stars are growing up...
It’s season 7 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer; the much awaited new series
after Willow tried to end the world. There’s changes afoot in Sunnydale-
new school, new characters and new roles as the Scooby gang matures and
grows up. With bad hair and great fashion…
Less action, more one-liners
I have to admit, I was a bit apprehensive about season seven as the past
two have been getting less clever and witty and more action-y, but Josh
Wheadon and team of writers are on fine form again, with a suspense
thriller episode full of puns and one-liners that had me laughing out loud.
For example, the new principal says to Buffy, ”You’ve had a chequered past”
and Buffy replies that it’s more plaid, really..a clan tartan of pasts…
Dawn, Vampire Slayer
At the opening of season seven, Dawn is being tutored as a slayer by Buffy
in the graveyard and has to be saved from a chomping by her big sis, who
gives her a weapon as a present - a mobile phone- for the dangers that
await; her first day at Sunnydale High, rebuilt over the Hell-mouth of the
old school. Xander arrives at the Summers’ house in a flash car and dressed
up, as a successful contractor rebuilding the school, and checks over the
school plans with Buffy for pentagrams and such things…
Willow Tree
Meanwhile, Willow looking all orange haired and bereft of the make up she
needs like eyebrows, is in Westbury, England- the England that Americans
only know outside of Guy Ritchie Geezer London, i.e. rolling green Merchant
Ivory pastures. Sitting under ye olde oak tree is Willow, getting in touch
with Gaia and “the roots that connect everything” as she discusses with
Giles her time with the British witches club.
At her new coven, all the girls are scared that she’ll “turn them into
‘Bangers and Mash’, whatever that is”. There’s quite a funny line
referencing Harry Potter where she says Giles has “come over all
Dumbledore” on her. Nice.
The Clothes
Aaaah. Such nice clothes.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer has long been a fashion showcase of sorts, with
SMG wearing Chloe and other designer labels on the show; almost a Hex in
the City for witch fashion…
Buffy looks like a Ralph Lauren spring catalogue in hipster camel trousers
and white split shoulder tops.
Dawn continues to be a growing fashion plate on their zero household budget
in Pringle cashmere sweaters.
Spike thankfully eschews black leather trenches and pants for his other
typical look, the Open Shirt and six pack chest with scars.
Xander has gone all Chandler in a suit-and-tie I’m a corporate man now
look. Anya, now a vengeance demon who’s gone soft ‘cos of her love for
Xander, is brunette and looks like Alanis Morrissette instead of Cameron
Diaz.
Principle Role
We meet Sunnydale High’s new hot, young, black principal, Robin Wood and
wonder- is he evil or not? Either way, he puts the Pal into Principal. Wood
sees the rapport between Buffy and Dawn and her new outcast friends after
saving them from talisman controlled dead manifest spirits, as you do, and
offers her a job as a guidance counselor at the school.
More Curly than Spiky
Spike should be called Curls, with his I’m Back With A Soul permed
hairstyle. Defying evil for the love of a good woman, just like Cole ‘The
Source’; boyfriend of Alyssa Milano’s good witch Phoebe, does in Charmed.
Spike is tormented by an evil presence who morphs into Warren, Glory,
Druscilla, the Mayor, The Master and eventually Buffy, saying that there’s
no right or wrong, only POWER…in a cheesey but very sinister kind of way.
So, that’s how episode one of series seven panned out- good clothes, bad
hair, some role changes and maturing of characters. It’s better than last
series, and one thing’s as sure as trouble rising in Sunnydale- that come
next Wednesday, I’ll be watching…
Jolan Tru
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Filippo "Hytok" Simone - L'oracolo sampdoriano di Sunnydale
La Casa degli Elfi - 
http://www.freewebtown.com/lacasadeglielfi/
Enclave del Dominio - S.N.S. Despiser - 
http://ildominio.altervista.org/
Commissione Voyager - 
http://www.voyageritalia.com/

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Dimenticavo:
http://www.thread.co.nz/article/458
Hairstyles and TV stars
What’s this correlation between hairstyles of TV stars and growing up?
On new season Sex in the City, Sarah Jessica Parker sports a now famously
short bob of tousled curls and comments to Samantha on how they’re too old
to dress like they do anymore- they’re getting older, and they celebrate
babies and 36th birthdays together.
Sarah Michelle Gellar, who in real life in a much more grown up move than
her first-job-getting character, married Freddie Prinze. Similarly, her
vampire butt kicking character is also growing up. On Buffy, her much
touted cute bob is grown out to a shoulder length style that she wears in a
chignon and is called Dawn’s Mom to her chagrin. No! I’m her sister! says a
disgusted Buffy...
Getting old was a topic on Friends too this season, the final season
they’re saying, with everyone’s fave bunch more famous off screen than on
it seems nowadays- and storylines have to fit in with that, for example,
who’d believe anyone would turn down Mrs Brad Pitt for a date?!
The characters commented on getting older, and their changing lifestyles.
Rachel made her hair cut a world-famous copied style six years ago, and
continues to set trends with her styles.
Despite getting older, all three women on Friends continue to have long
super-straight shiny hair over their shoulders.
Long hair, short hair- it's a symbol of change on our favourite stars, a
follicular sign that the times are a'changing. Now, if we could just get
our hands on the Shortland Street stars' hairstyles...
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