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Once More with Feeling: "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" Script Book (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) | 
 enlarge | Author: Joss Whedon
Publisher: Pocket Books
Category: Book
Buy Used: £24.99
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 240798
Media: Paperback
Pages: 96
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.4 x 0.6
ISBN: 0743467973
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780743467971
ASIN: 0743467973
Publication Date: December 2, 2002
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Fans of Buffy the Vampire Slayer are used to seeing its creative team pull off unique feats in every season, but Once More With Feeling is perhaps the most creatively challenging episode so far. A superbly enjoyable pastiche of old Hollywood musicals and Broadway shows, it finds an all-singing, all-dancing demon descending on Sunnydale intent on making the town's inhabitants free their innermost secrets through song. As a pivotal episode it proves a turning point for many of the characters, and as a unique piece of TV it's quite clearly unrivalled. There isn't a bad song among them and it's hard not to turn demon-green with envy that show creator Joss Wheedon, who wrote and directed this episode, can be so sickeningly talented. It doesn't matter that some of the cast are less then blessed vocally, but stand-out performances from James Marsters (Spike) and Amber Benson (Tara) help carry along the weaker voices. This book is fan's dream with a detailed behind-the-scenes look at how the episode came about, the complete script, photographs and even the music sheets should you wish to try the songs from the comfort of your Steinway. This is a worthy and essential companion to perhaps Buffy's finest hour (and eight minutes) yet. --Jonathan Weir
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 Great for Buffy fans April 29, 2004
sharan dhami (Hayes, Middx United Kingdom)
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
If youre a fan of Buffy then this will interest you. If you took aparticular liking to the musical episode 'once more with feeling'thenyou'll love this. I particulary like this book as it has the sheet musicto the songs, so I can play and sing along on my piano. hurrah.
 Buffy is great August 12, 2003
2 out of 17 found this review helpful
this episode of Buffy the vampire slayer was a little different, to put it mildly. it mainly consisted of songs. have any of you ever heard Anthony Stuart Head or Alyson Hannigon sing before? thought not.
this episode involved a demon coming and his very presence makes people burst into song and dance. it was xander who summoned him unwittingly, not realising that people would start bursting into flames if they danced too hard.
i gave this episode 4 stars instead of 5 because all the songs did tend to go on a bit
 Going through the motions. March 29, 2003
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Although it cannot be denied that this is a fun book to accompany what is arguabley the best episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, it has to be said that the content is lacking in originality. While we get the full episode script and sheet music from the featured songs, it lacks detail concerning how the show was put together. It would have been nice to see some cast interviews and more behind the scenes images. Nevertheless, this book is certain worth a read.
A Must! March 26, 2003
T Reddon (London)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
If you love Buffy, you'll love this. If you're new to the Slayer, you'll love it too. Funny, eclectic, and as good as any of the others in the series. Highly recommend this.
Once bitten, for ever smitten January 21, 2003
Mr S J Waring (London)
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
What a cracking soundtrack!! I've not even seen the screen version, but this is as close to perfection as a modern musical gets. Made all the more accessible by the fact that we know the characters so well, and all the more lovable by the fact that not all of them are trained singers, "Once More, With Feeling" is admittedly a musical-by-numbers creation by series writer Joss Whedon, but its quality surprised me greatly.There are certainly some excellent vocal performances - in particular Anya (Emma Caulfield) and Dawn (Michelle Trachtenberg) stand out - but it's a long time since I heard such a gutsy performance as Sarah Michelle Gellar's opening song, "Going through the Motions", from someone who readily admits she cannot sing. The group performance "I've got a Theory" and Anya and Xander's "I'll Never Tell" are good fun, but perhaps the most touching number is Tara's hymn to Willow, the Roxette-ish and semi-lewd "Under Your Spell". Whedon's musical ambition is admirable, though the epic "Walk Through the Fire" and the pivotal "Something to Sing About" are perhaps a tad overblown compared to simpler and more heartfelt compositions such as Spike's "Rest in Peace". But it can't be denied that Whedon has done a superb job, not just following the musical formula and mixing song styles, but coming up with several genuinely marvellous tunes.
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