TMC
11-03-2025, 07:54 PM
https://www.looper.com/2011552/plot-holes-hurt-perfect-tv-shows/
https://www.looper.com/img/gallery/12-plot-holes-that-hurt-otherwise-perfect-tv-shows/buffy-the-vampire-slayers-season-7-disregards-much-of-what-came-before-1761771259.webp
Ask a random "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" fan which season they dislike, and there's a good chance they'll say Season 7. It starts strong but loses its way when the main plot kicks into gear, and it opens up a pretty hefty plot hole. Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) needs to train a group of prospective slayers who could take over her role should she die. Were that to happen, one of them would be called up to take her place.
The only problem with this is the fact that Buffy dies multiple times before Season 7 begins, and in those cases, there isn't any need to have a previously established group of would-be slayers waiting to join the fight. Buffy dies in Season 1, and Kendra (Bianca Lawson) takes her place as the active slayer, so Season 7 is already off the rails from the jump. When Kendra dies, Faith (Eliza Dushku) steps in to take the lead slayer role — again, a plot hole. Even when Buffy dies in Season 5, nobody stands up to take her place. For anyone who watched "Buffy" up to that point — which is everyone, because who starts a show in Season 7? — this is a glaringly annoying inconsistency that undermines the entire plot of the final season.
https://www.looper.com/img/gallery/12-plot-holes-that-hurt-otherwise-perfect-tv-shows/buffy-the-vampire-slayers-season-7-disregards-much-of-what-came-before-1761771259.webp
Ask a random "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" fan which season they dislike, and there's a good chance they'll say Season 7. It starts strong but loses its way when the main plot kicks into gear, and it opens up a pretty hefty plot hole. Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) needs to train a group of prospective slayers who could take over her role should she die. Were that to happen, one of them would be called up to take her place.
The only problem with this is the fact that Buffy dies multiple times before Season 7 begins, and in those cases, there isn't any need to have a previously established group of would-be slayers waiting to join the fight. Buffy dies in Season 1, and Kendra (Bianca Lawson) takes her place as the active slayer, so Season 7 is already off the rails from the jump. When Kendra dies, Faith (Eliza Dushku) steps in to take the lead slayer role — again, a plot hole. Even when Buffy dies in Season 5, nobody stands up to take her place. For anyone who watched "Buffy" up to that point — which is everyone, because who starts a show in Season 7? — this is a glaringly annoying inconsistency that undermines the entire plot of the final season.