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Cordelia The Vampire Slayer is a spin-off television series of Buffy the Vampire Slayer taking place in an alternate reality present to Buffy and a prequel to Angel.

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The series has a much more teenage girl feminine tone than the original Buffy The Vampire Slayer.

The show was created by newcomer JD Burton and original collaborators airing in November 1999 on the WB and later CW-circa 2000.

The show details a changing world in which Scooby Gang original Cordelia Chase is the slayer presiding Sunnydale and its Hellmouth, grappling with relationships, popularity, fraud, and the demons of hell.

She appears a much more resilient slayer but with the same quality, Buffy originally possessed of not wanting to possess the power.

The show ran for a title two seasons the first chronicling Anyanka's deal transforming Cordelia into the slayer and changing the destiny of Buffy Summers and the original events leading to 2003.

The Second and final season showed Cordelia assembling a great group of warriors in Sunnydale taking on a final battle before its destruction and she flee to Pennsylvania to take on the Master in a final confrontation.

The final battle sees her killed by a recently sired Vampire Xander and the wish is broken reverting the story to its natural events as Buffy is the slayer.

It also introduces its characters.

Season One[]

Affilliatebttn2 In The Series Premiere of CTVS, the demon Anyanka arrives in Sunnydale in search of many young heartbroken women whose scorned love will pave the way for gruesome vengeance. Anyanka arrives unwittingly after a terrible storm at the Chase residence welcomed in by Cordelia Chase's parents. Cordelia fast asleep is unaware of the visitor's presence. Anyanka at midnight that night reveals her true visage and position to Mrs. Chase and strikes a deal, changing the course of Cordelia's Life forever. There is now no Buffy Summers as the fashion-conscious vampire slayer of Sunnydale, California but Cordelia Chase the popular cheer queen slayer of Sunnydale.

Cordelia adjusts to her new position as well as her juggling friendships with the Cordettes at Sunnydale High but also the fact of Buffy now being nothing more than a semi-normal school girl.

Cordelia continues as student body cheerleader of popularity but takes on the role of having an appointed Watcher and new emerging supernatural problems.

The first begins in the pilot premiere episode " Welcome to Bizarro World."

Cordelia's first vampire begins as her worst, a primordial subordinate of the Master an ancient bloodsucker M-bus.

A prophesied uprising is at the hands of the Anointed One and his trusted, assigned vampire protector Andrew Borba brings about the Second Coming.

In the following episode "Ungrateful Dead" Cordelia grapples with an undead army of zombies gathering in Sunnydale following the3 death of a Sunnydale student close associated with Willow Rosenberg. Cordelia also aligns with Xander in a passionate face with most of the Sunnydale student body becoming the undead and ravaging the Sunnydale High School.

Cordelia goes on to contend with a replica of herself in "Restoration" a world where isn't the slayer after the return of vengeance demon Anyanka in "Wonderful Life" the decision of aligning with Angel the vampire in "Fallen Angel" the joining of more fighters for the Cordelia Scooby Gang and battle against a flesh and blood serial killer in "You Can Always Come Back" and the restoration of the Anointed One paving way for their final battle in "He Restored My Soul".

Season Two[]

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The Second and final season of Cordelia The Vampire Slayer airing successfully from November 1999 to May 2000 marks the aftermath of the destruction of the Anointed One, Cordelia's final fights, relationships, and personal battles before the wish spell break reverts making Buffy the slayer once again and the natural events to revert.

In the opening episode "Apollyon" Cordelia grapples with the aftermath of the battle against the Anointed One, Giles garners the ancient prophecy following which foretells of the Slayer then gaining great power before having to face an unleashed evil which she shall smite and send screaming back into the pits of hell.

In the following second episode of Season Two "Higher Powers," Cordelia refrains from the group leaving them to deal with their grief as she is shown sights never before seen.

The episode continues before for a mere two more episodes before it's finished with "The Ether Flux" in which Cordelia learns what the Ether Flux is and ultimately saves the world from enslavement.

And then finally with the final episode of CTVS "Evolution", the Slayer Squad discovers they must move on as everything changes in Sunnydale, and Cordelia evades impending destruction.

Cast[]

  • Charisma Carpenter as Cordelia Chase
  • Eliza Dushku as Faith Lehane
  • Alexis Denisof as Wesley
  • Nicholas Brendon as Xander Harris
  • David Boreanaz as Angel
  • Robert Floyd as Fame

Recurring Cast[]

  • Emma Caulfield as Anyanka
  • James Marsters as Spike
  • Juliet Landau as Drusilla
  • Geoff Meed as Andrew Borba
  • Andrew J. Ferchland as Collin
  • Harry Groener as Mayor Wilkins
  • Robia LaMorte as Jennifer Calender
  • David Warner as Gribbyba
  • Mercedes McNab as Harmony Kendall
  • Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy Summers
  • Alyson Hannigan as Willow Rosenberg
  • Seth Green as Oz
  • Max Perlich as Whistler
  • Danny Strong as Jonathan
  • Saverio Guerra as Willy
  • Peter Jurasik as Oliker
  • Danny DeVito as the voice of Dukshelinar
  • Glenn Quinn as Doyle

Guest appearances[]

Buffy and Angel creators Joss Whedon and David Greenwalt make their first cameo appearances in a Buffyverse television series in Cordelia the Vampire Slayer Season One episode six: "More Than A Carpenter."

Trivia[]

  • The show marks the second appearance ever of actress Amber Tamblyn who portrayed Dawn Summers' best friend Janice in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, appears in Cordelia as a gypsy turned vampire
  • The show was originally to come off as a Jawbreaker version of Clueless in a television series to capture the whole femmine popularity teenage girl thing but displaced this in favor of the original Buffy responsibility and power feel
  • The stunts of Angel in Cordelia the Vampire Slayer are for the first time performed by a different stunt actor as opposed to the one and original one he had for Buffy and Angel
  • The opening theme for the show was created by New Peugeot RCZ Coupe
  • the show was originally to feature many teenage female characters who would be members of Cordelia's popular posse the Cordettes but ultimately the show due to turn of concept only ever introduced two
  • JD Burton had to heavily persuade Danny DeVito to lend a performance on the show, for even though he was a fan of Buffy he was unsure as to Cordelia would measure up to the phenomenon of Buffy
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