I bought my second copy of season 2 in the slimline case. I think that if I could afford it (and even at 15.99 I cannot) I would get them all that way.

I much prefer the slimline versions. i would gladly trade the four or so seasons of B/A for the slimline ones. the discs always fall out of those crappy fold-out ones and get scratched or lost.

And they take up alot of room - which I do not have.

The discs always fall out of those crappy fold-out ones

This is absolutely true...and I'd love the extra shelf space slimlines would give me, but when I think of replacing 10 vs. 2, not sticking with what I have would seem like a waste.

Sounds like it's time to go replace my missing seasons, since all my Buffy DVDs got ripped off. I've only got one season left in the old packaging, because my daughter had loaned it to a friend. I've replaced two of them with the slimlines, but I've been holding off replacing all of them at once because of cost. At that price I practically can't afford to not buy them.

Moved from Other Media:

Bleah. It's just...problematic. In order to level the playing/dying field, you've got to dig out really, really minor characters on one side to balance out the deeply rooted, longtime, extremely emotionally weighty characters on the other. And they really don't. And of course every death individually made perfect sense, was demanded by the narrative, increased the stakes, etc. etc. etc. But, still: Given that Joss and co. had already decided that no core characters were going to die (or, at least, die a no-takebacks no-resurrection no moving to another show Death), it's still at least mildly uncomfortable that all but one of the big heart-filled secondary characters to die were female. Of course, it's all positively hugs and puppies compared to AtS.

Ugh. This really needs to move to Buffy.

I completely agree JZ. Especially in light of Joss' overt feminism. Unless, of course, feminism in this case means strong, vibrant, emotionally engaged characters of the female brand must die to prove their superiority equality?

Okay. No. That doesn't work.

So we're talking Joyce, Tara, Jenny Calendar vs. Jonathan, Snyder, The Mayor (really his own fault), Trick (can he count? Vibrant AND dynamic),

Would it have been better if Willow had lost Oz AND Tara?

I mean, Buffy sent Angel to Hell. And she gave up on say, Owen to prevent his untimely demise.

Maybe it would have been better to kill off the scooby gang? Xander, Giles and Oz.

sumi, I think JZ's point (forgive me, Hon, for not waiting for you to respond) was that a disproportionate number of 'good' characters who died were women.

While I adored the Mayor, his actions dq him from that list.

Oh, you mean "good" in a moral sense not in an "interesting to watch" sense.

I included Flutie for a couple of reasons. He was in more than one episode and his death was part of Xander's character development. He was more than just a random redshirt. I can be persuaded otherwise, though, as he was really a minor player over even the short run of season 1.