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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Watcher's Guide #2
The Watcher's Guide, Volume 2 (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
"I'm the Slayer. Slay-er. Chosen One? She who hangs out a lot in cemeteries? Ask around. Look it 'Slayer comma The.'" -- Buffy, "Doomed" As long as there have been vampires, there has been the Slayer. One girl in all the world, to find them where they gather and to stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their numbers.Dig into all--new character profiles, episode guides, quotables, and more -- a fully updated volume filled with the latest dirt on your favorite cemetery-hopper!The Mayor, Faith, Mr. Trick, Angel's return, Wesley Wyndam-Pryce, snow in Sunnydale, Graduation Day, Zachary Kralick, the end of the world -- again!, Spike, Veruca, Tara, Riley, Maggie Walsh, The Initiative, Adam -- and much, much more!The The World According to Buffy Summers. Everybody In Sunnydale, love can be downright scary. Anarchy in the How Buffy and Giles came to be footloose and Council-free. Power Buffy, Kendra, Faith -- wasn't it supposed to be "Chosen One?" Creating From brainstorm, to script, to genius on the small screen -- with a few tiny detours along the way. Go behind the scenes for Season Four's pivotal episode "The I in Team" and catch all the action, from scouting locations to running lines with the stellar cast to music editing -- it's all inside!THE GUYS, THE GALS, THE LORE, THE LINGO The chillingly complete WATCHER'S GUIDE VOLUME 2 will slay you
304 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2000
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About the author
Nancy Holder
351 books2,409 followersNancy Holder, New York Times Bestselling author of the WICKED Series, has just published CRUSADE - the first book in a new vampire series cowritten with Debbie Viguie. The last book her her Possession series is set to release in March 2011.
Nancy was born in Los Altos, California, and her family settled for a time in Walnut Creek. Her father, who taught at Stanford, joined the navy and the family traveled throughout California and lived in Japan for three years. When she was sixteen, she dropped out of high school to become a ballet dancer in Cologne, Germany, and later relocated to Frankfurt Am Main.
Eventually she returned to California and graduated summa cum laude from the University of California at San Diego with a degree in Communications. Soon after, she began to write; her first sale was a young adult romance novel titled Teach Me to Love.
Nancy’s work has appeared on the New York Times, USA Today, LA Times, amazon.com, LOCUS, and other bestseller lists. A four-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award from the Horror Writers Association, she has also received accolades from the American Library Association, the American Reading Association, the New York Public Library, and Romantic Times.
She and Debbie Viguié co-authored the New York Times bestselling series Wicked for Simon and Schuster. They have continued their collaboration with the Crusade series, also for Simon and Schuster, and the Wolf Springs Chronicles for Delacorte (2011.) She is also the author of the young adult horror series Possessions for Razorbill. She has sold many novels and book projects set in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Saving Grace, Hellboy, and Smallville universes.
She has sold approximately two hundred short stories and essays on writing and popular culture. Her anthology, Outsiders, co-edited with Nancy Kilpatrick, was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award in 2005.
She teaches in the Stonecoast MFA in Creative Writing Program, offered through the University of Southern Maine. She has previously taught at UCSD and has served on the Clarion Board of Directors.
She lives in San Diego, California, with her daughter Belle, their two Corgis, Panda and Tater; and their cats, David and Kittnen Snow. She and Belle are active in Girl Scouts and dog obedience training.
Nancy was born in Los Altos, California, and her family settled for a time in Walnut Creek. Her father, who taught at Stanford, joined the navy and the family traveled throughout California and lived in Japan for three years. When she was sixteen, she dropped out of high school to become a ballet dancer in Cologne, Germany, and later relocated to Frankfurt Am Main.
Eventually she returned to California and graduated summa cum laude from the University of California at San Diego with a degree in Communications. Soon after, she began to write; her first sale was a young adult romance novel titled Teach Me to Love.
Nancy’s work has appeared on the New York Times, USA Today, LA Times, amazon.com, LOCUS, and other bestseller lists. A four-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award from the Horror Writers Association, she has also received accolades from the American Library Association, the American Reading Association, the New York Public Library, and Romantic Times.
She and Debbie Viguié co-authored the New York Times bestselling series Wicked for Simon and Schuster. They have continued their collaboration with the Crusade series, also for Simon and Schuster, and the Wolf Springs Chronicles for Delacorte (2011.) She is also the author of the young adult horror series Possessions for Razorbill. She has sold many novels and book projects set in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Saving Grace, Hellboy, and Smallville universes.
She has sold approximately two hundred short stories and essays on writing and popular culture. Her anthology, Outsiders, co-edited with Nancy Kilpatrick, was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award in 2005.
She teaches in the Stonecoast MFA in Creative Writing Program, offered through the University of Southern Maine. She has previously taught at UCSD and has served on the Clarion Board of Directors.
She lives in San Diego, California, with her daughter Belle, their two Corgis, Panda and Tater; and their cats, David and Kittnen Snow. She and Belle are active in Girl Scouts and dog obedience training.
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January 13, 2020
This was my bible when I watched Buffy and rewatched Buffy, over and over, it is full of trivia and great facts about the Scooby gang.
March 13, 2019
This was even better than the first. There is so much information packed into it that it's something you can dip into again and again. You get episode guides, behind the scenes information, cast interviews and so much more. Highly recommend for fans of the show.
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January 8, 2016
The Watcher's Guide, Volume Two concerns series 3-4 of the show. It's a great accompaniment that gives you more information about the characters and monsters that feature in the episode, as well as background and in-depth synopsis' of each episode.
It's set out in a decent logical order which makes it very easy to dip in and out of. Whilst the photographs are in black and white in general, there is an insert with some promos and behind-the-scenes photographs which adds to the occasion.
For any Buffy who wants to know more it's a good place to start and is a good addition to any collection, but since the advent of The Internet it's slightly redundant now.
It's set out in a decent logical order which makes it very easy to dip in and out of. Whilst the photographs are in black and white in general, there is an insert with some promos and behind-the-scenes photographs which adds to the occasion.
For any Buffy who wants to know more it's a good place to start and is a good addition to any collection, but since the advent of The Internet it's slightly redundant now.
February 10, 2023
I couldn't stop smiling while going through this as I felt so much nostalgia reading this, even now with Wikipedia and other internet forums where you can now find Btvs/Angel information online, however back in the day before the internet rose in popularity every Buffy fan had this as their bible with everything to character profiles, episode guides, quotes, behind the scenes info and cast/writers/producers interviews.
September 6, 2010
Hey, the shot on the cover is Season Two Buffy. REFUND!
May 27, 2017
Again, a great book for any Buffy nerd who wants to learn the ins and outs of the series, but it's a tad long and has a lot of mistakes in that should have been caught by the editor.
January 3, 2021
Incluso mejor que la primera, con más entrevistas. Una gozada para cualquier fan.
June 23, 2022
Much more elaborate than Volume 1 and with lots of interesting insights in the behind the scenes - I loved the interviews with all the departments and assistants.
January 20, 2010
How I Came To Read This Book: I was an avid Buffy fan and naturally picked up all 3 volumes of the Watcher’s Guide.
The Plot: Again, the concept is to take a ton of information about Buffy and lump it into one book. Aside from the critical inclusion of an episode guide for seasons 3 & 4 with behind-the-scenes factoids, this time the book basically doubled itself in length with the inclusion of a massive behind-the-scenes undertaking that looks at all of the elements that go into making an episode of Buffy (with a focus on the Season 4 episode “The I In Team”). Interviews and profiles of various jobs ranging from the writers to the location scout to the score composer give what is quite possibly the most in-depth look into a series that I’ve ever encountered. Aside from that the book also features a few sections looking at specific elements of the show including new characters, Buffy as the ‘chosen one’ with her fellow slayers, the painful repercussions of love in the Buffy world and so on.
The Good & The Bad: Reading this book will make you appreciate how much work goes into this little show – although even I will admit at times the behind-the-scenes gigantor feature lagged in interest and was perhaps a tad expansive for just one episode. I’m going to go out and say though, that this was the best of the Watcher’s Guide series because it gave you so much information you really couldn’t get anywhere else. Did it go a tad above and beyond what this type of book was expected to do? Certainly, but anyone with an interest in the entertainment industry beyond just the plot of a show could easily get engrossed in all or at least sections of the guide. A lot of the book is just recapping but again it’s fun to read alongside a rewatch of the series, and it has a lot more focus (vs. fluff) than the first volume.
The Bottom Line: The best Watcher’s Guide of the series, although a heck of a lot of info for two seasons.
Anything Memorable?: They show a photograph of the score written for the infamous season 2 love theme ‘Close Your Eyes’. I definitely copied it out on a piece of ledger paper and know how to play it to this day
50-Book Challenge?: Nope.
The Plot: Again, the concept is to take a ton of information about Buffy and lump it into one book. Aside from the critical inclusion of an episode guide for seasons 3 & 4 with behind-the-scenes factoids, this time the book basically doubled itself in length with the inclusion of a massive behind-the-scenes undertaking that looks at all of the elements that go into making an episode of Buffy (with a focus on the Season 4 episode “The I In Team”). Interviews and profiles of various jobs ranging from the writers to the location scout to the score composer give what is quite possibly the most in-depth look into a series that I’ve ever encountered. Aside from that the book also features a few sections looking at specific elements of the show including new characters, Buffy as the ‘chosen one’ with her fellow slayers, the painful repercussions of love in the Buffy world and so on.
The Good & The Bad: Reading this book will make you appreciate how much work goes into this little show – although even I will admit at times the behind-the-scenes gigantor feature lagged in interest and was perhaps a tad expansive for just one episode. I’m going to go out and say though, that this was the best of the Watcher’s Guide series because it gave you so much information you really couldn’t get anywhere else. Did it go a tad above and beyond what this type of book was expected to do? Certainly, but anyone with an interest in the entertainment industry beyond just the plot of a show could easily get engrossed in all or at least sections of the guide. A lot of the book is just recapping but again it’s fun to read alongside a rewatch of the series, and it has a lot more focus (vs. fluff) than the first volume.
The Bottom Line: The best Watcher’s Guide of the series, although a heck of a lot of info for two seasons.
Anything Memorable?: They show a photograph of the score written for the infamous season 2 love theme ‘Close Your Eyes’. I definitely copied it out on a piece of ledger paper and know how to play it to this day
50-Book Challenge?: Nope.
August 22, 2010
Picking up where the first Watcher's Guide left off and detailing seasons three and four of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", Volume 2 has the same sort of inside look at the series as the first but also adds more, making it not only as must read for Buffy fans, but a nice resource for anyone interested in a behind the scenes look at the television world.
Here again are character profiles, interviews with the cast and a thorough guide of the episodes. But with the second volume, they add discussions with those who work behind the scenes to bring Sunnydale to life (it's not as easy as you might think) and follow an episode more or less from start to finish through the process. If you've ever thought about heading west for the glamor of Hollywood, read this first: 5am set calls, 16 hour work days and more are all here.
Where the first Watcher's Guide was a nice resource for new fans of the show as well as collectors, this one improves on the formula by really driving home what Joss Whedon and his assembled staff did, how well and how hard they worked, to bring our favorite heroine, her friends and even her enemies to life.
Here again are character profiles, interviews with the cast and a thorough guide of the episodes. But with the second volume, they add discussions with those who work behind the scenes to bring Sunnydale to life (it's not as easy as you might think) and follow an episode more or less from start to finish through the process. If you've ever thought about heading west for the glamor of Hollywood, read this first: 5am set calls, 16 hour work days and more are all here.
Where the first Watcher's Guide was a nice resource for new fans of the show as well as collectors, this one improves on the formula by really driving home what Joss Whedon and his assembled staff did, how well and how hard they worked, to bring our favorite heroine, her friends and even her enemies to life.
November 16, 2015
This is a large book that you just can't breeze through. There is so much information in The Watcher's Guide: Volume 2 that you could be reading this book for months. There are a lot of things that are also included in this book that I have not mentioned; you will have to pick it up to find out about these golden nuggets.
If you love Buffy the Vampire Slayer this is a book that you cannot be without. Personally, it is one of my favorite shows, and I had a great time perusing this books. This book would go great in anybody's house, like on the coffee table, because you can always find somebody who knows the show and loves to talk about it.
With The Watcher's Guide: Volume 2, you can Wow them with your knowledge of the show and have conversations that go late into the night. There is a lot of interesting information in this book that you can't get from just watching the show.
So, if you are a fan of the show, you'll love this book as much as Buffy loves Angel. Pick it up and immerse yourself into the world of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
If you love Buffy the Vampire Slayer this is a book that you cannot be without. Personally, it is one of my favorite shows, and I had a great time perusing this books. This book would go great in anybody's house, like on the coffee table, because you can always find somebody who knows the show and loves to talk about it.
With The Watcher's Guide: Volume 2, you can Wow them with your knowledge of the show and have conversations that go late into the night. There is a lot of interesting information in this book that you can't get from just watching the show.
So, if you are a fan of the show, you'll love this book as much as Buffy loves Angel. Pick it up and immerse yourself into the world of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
July 10, 2015
I didn't like this Watcher's Guide as much as the first one - about a third of the book was interviews. Sorry, but I don't want to read interviews.
The pictures were great and I loved the background info for the episodes. The quotes are some of my favorites, because the things they say truly make up the show - both hilarious and memorable.
The song list was awesome!
The pictures were great and I loved the background info for the episodes. The quotes are some of my favorites, because the things they say truly make up the show - both hilarious and memorable.
The song list was awesome!
August 18, 2015
This isn't what I want in a book that's looking at a series as complex as Buffy. This book looks at the episodes very superficially, with pictures and quotes, but without really looking at what the episodes mean. However, it is packed full of interviews with everyone that worked on the show in these seasons, and if that's the sort of thing you like, this book has it in spades.
May 31, 2010
A fantastic entry into the Watcher's Guide series, Nancy Holder provides interesting tidbits, anecdotes, interviews with cast and crew members, and full-paged color photos. Recommended for Buffy fans.
July 12, 2014
Someone gave this to me years ago. I'm a massive Buffy fan so can't rate this anything other than perfect score but in reality it is just a blow by blow account of each episode from Season 2 plus a song list and some other bits and bobs.
April 7, 2022
When published, this was THE ultimate guide for all Buffy fans featuring in-depth guides to each episode of seasons 3 and 4 of the show, interviews with cast and creators, behind-the-scenes photos and more!
October 9, 2010
I loved this book it gave me more Awesome BTVS info. ^ _ ^
December 12, 2010
loved it!
July 5, 2011
I raced through this as I loved the show. If you are a Buffy fan, I'd recommend this!
February 25, 2019
Almost as good as volume 1
Want to read
June 25, 2014Abi her türlü ergen zımbırtısı çevrildi de neden vampirin anası olan Buffy ile ilgili bi kitap yok piyasada? Ro yayinlari mi ne çevirmiş o da tükenmis hiçbir yerde bulunamıyor.
February 21, 2016
good information following the first book
May 24, 2016
This book is perfect for Buffy fans, it has everything you could want, episode synopsis, fun facts, actors biographies etc
December 30, 2016
Would've been a 4* had the pictures all been in colour. As it's an official companion that bothered me some. But it's a 3.5* from me anyways.
October 1, 2008
Again, a must-have for Buffy Fans.
April 1, 2019
Great for every Buffy fan :)
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