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Summary: The season that shows LIFE is the Big Bad.
Review: While Season 6 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer is best enjoyed after watching Seasons 1-5, Season 6 is one of the most essential seasons. The season gets darker, and the main villains are no longer superhuman. This season reminds us that demons, vampires, and the like are nothing compared to three human beings who just want to hate, and that magical forces are nothing compared to one, single bullet. EVERY episode of Season 6 is essential because of the importance on, above all, dealing with REAL LIFE. Slaying doesn't pay the rent, and magic won't cure a leaky pipe. And while I would love for more commentaries by Joss Whedon himself (the others kind of tent to drone on about nothing), I enjoy the fact that Joss is allowing us to see more outtakes. This is a series to own every episode of!
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Summary: Darkest Season But Fantastic!
Review: I've read reviews where people whine about the darkness of this season. I agree that it was the darkest yet but also one of the most brilliant seasons ever. My favorite season was the third season but this sixth season follows closely as my second favorite season. Some of the episodes had me laughing out loud, others made me cry and others made me sit back in awe. Joss Whedon is a brilliant man that just brings this incredible magic onto the screen. Props to him.
Bargaining 1&2...intense. I love how Buffy portrayed all her confusion, fright and sadness.
Once More With Feeling was one of the most incredible pieces of work ever, it definetley deserved an Emmy. Tabula Rasa was hilarious. I loved how everyone lost their memory...Giles being Spike's father? Pure comedy.
Smashed has one of the hottest scenes of TV history EVER. I love the whole interaction with Buffy and Spike.
Gone...sheer genius. Invisible Buffy was too funny and Spike doing Invisible Buffy with Xander walking in had me laughing hard.
Doublemeat Palace was great in the sense that Buffy becomes a real person who actually works to support her and her sister instead of complaining about the lack of money she finally does what any normal person would do: Get a job.
Hells Bells was very good, Anya's walk down the aise was the saddest thing ever.
Normal Again was SUPERB. The creativness behind it just blows me away everytime I watch it. I STILL wonder if maybe that alternate reality really WAS Buffy's life and maybe Sunnydale was all in her mind. You never know.
Seeing Red, this one I will complain about just for the whole attempted rape. That part just kills me everytime. I love Spike and Buffy together and I hated that they added that into their storyline.Dark Willow...Willow's stronger than ever this season and the ending is a shocker. Some parts had me squirming, like, is that really the sweet little Willow we all love? But it's something that has to happen and it's great. Best part? No more Tara. I did find that Dawn got way too annoying. Especially in Older and Faraway. I swear, I just wanted to slap her and I actually enjoyed when in the finale Willow taunted her and mocked her. I would've told her to get some friends of her own and stop being such a whiny little baby. Spike's the real twist and shocker in the season finale and it was one of the best things ever. As for the Extra features: The TV with a bite was an awesome addition. I loved watching how the series developed through the years.
The outakes weren't all that good. Just a few silly mistakes.
Karoke was good
The making of the musical was a great addition, would've loved to see more of it. All in all season six was a brilliantly done season and one of the best. I recommend everyone buys it.
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Summary: Best Season of Buffy
Review: Folks, this is the best season of Buffy. First, the opening is fantastic, dramatic and edgy. Many comments have been made about how dark the season is. Not true. Many scenes are bright, the sets beautiful and alive. They spent money on this season, make no mistake about it. The first episode is really a double episode so you do get the full 22 40 minute episodes. The season plays as one long episode, blending perfectly in sync as they progress. The main story arcs are, Buffy's coming back to life, handled beautifully by SMG. Ripped from heaven she must deal with a hellish Sunnydale while her friends' lives are falling apart. Giles leaves, he is missed, but in a surprise conclusion to "Two to Go", he returns and saves the day, along with Xander in "Grave". Willow and Tara are at odds over Willow's use of magic, or should I say abuse? This is really the main story arc, and the greater part of "the big bad" that so many people seemed to be dissappointed in. "Seeing Red" and "Villains" is a powerful mini arc showing how Tara and Willow get back together after Willow's struggle to overcome her addicition to magic, only to have Tara killed in Willow's arms. The trio? Awesome and funny. Watch for "Seeing Red" to see how the Trio changes. Jonathan becomes good, trying to help Buffy while Andrew cheers on Warren by saying "kill her, kill her". Powerful stuff. Yes Xander leaves Anya at the alter, further debilitating the characters throughout the year. Xander makes up for his faltering at the end of the season by single handedly saving the world. "Once More With Feeling" is perfect. The singing, songs, acting, humor mixed in with Buffy's darkness is fantastic. OMWF is the best episode in Buffy. The story itself is meaningful to the season, further positioning the episode and this season as the greatest. Folks, for $38.99, you can't go wrong. It's a world of entertainment for very little money. True fans need to have it, casual fans will enjoy it immensely.
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Summary: Buffy, Even At Her Worst, Still Trumps Any Other TV Show
Review: This season is definitely not what you've come to expect from BTVS and while that's a good thing, it also comes with a handful of problems concerning character development and the "darker" territory that Joss and co. wanted to explore this season. For starters, let me warn you that pretty much the entire season is one gigantic bummer after another. Almost every character is either whining, embittered or just plain annoying (Dawn, in particular) - FOR THE ENTIRE SEASON! With a few bright spots here and there, the season is generally focused heavily into metaphor as each character tries to work through his or her inner or outer pain. Each character deals with it in a different way, but most share the common trait in that they will not talk to the other characters about their problems, thereby waiting until everything comes to a head and there's a gigantic blowout wherein everybody ends up feeling miserable (including the viewer). Now, although interesting, this wallowing in misery becomes tiring incredibly fast, yet the writers feel the need to draw out said misery for as long as possible. Most of the episodes remain semi-interesting, but lack the punch of previous seasons. The fault remains solely on the writers' shoulders. Over the course of six seasons, BTVS has built a steady stable of great writers who understand the characters and know where to direct each of them, however, season six sees an influx of new and untested talent whilst the pros only add in an episode here and there (Whedon, himself, only contributes one episode the entire season). Unfortunately, in my opinion, the new blood has not quite got a handle on the characters and will often have several characters make an about-face from what we've come to know about them from previous seasons (when did Willow begin to lose her moral compass and common sense? Could Dawn possibly be anymore ungrateful? Since when has Xander felt so useless <which I thought was cleared up previously in "The Zeppo">? Buffy needs to learn, yet again, that her friends really do love and care for her?). Several unintentionally silly episodes revolve around Willow's "addiction" to dark magics (why does every television show feel it has to do an episode about drug or alcohol addiction? There's nothing new to say about it anymore - either you understand addiction is bad by now, or else you're completely hopeless). Although this is a major thread throughout the season, it seems bizarre that a character who has been so humble and knows all too well the balance between good and evil would intentionally throw herself into something she knows better not to mess with. In my opinion, it would have been more interesting to see Willow intrigued by the dark magic, but not engulfed by it. The storyline would have played out much more subtle if she was studying the magic (with her scientific mind, which we know she has, people!) in secret, rather than intentionally going crazy with the ridiculous amount of power she now wields. Anywho, there are several more episodes that leave a Buffy fan unsatisfied. For example, the episode wherein Buffy needs to figure out which world is real (whether she's really in a hospital for the mentally insane and Sunnydale is just a dream or if Sunnydale is the reality and the hospital is just a figment of her imagination) is probably one of the oldest storytelling chestnuts in the world and, true to form, the ending is ambiguous enough to make you wonder if everything was all a dream... or was it?! Da-DUMMM! C'mon, a show six seasons in should know better not to produce a "cheat" episode like this. Despite the musical episode and a few highlights here and there, this is, plain and simple, not one of Buffy's better seasons. It is essential in the fact that it wraps up some lingering storylines left over from the previous season and sets up some nice story arcs for the next season, but otherwise it's a rather unspectacular season from a show that normally does better. In the end, this sixth season (albeit better than most every other show's "best" seasons) is not quite up to par of Buffy's other seasons. Although a disappointment in the realm of the Buffyverse, I'd take this season of television over anything else currently on the tube. Buffy fans: It's required viewing. Casual Buffy fans: you probably won't like it. Rookie Buffy fans: avoid at all costs and start somewhere else. That's just my opinion, I could be wrong....
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Summary: Disc 2 defective TWICE!!
Review: Love all the Buffy seasons, but I've ordered the 6th season twice now from Amazon and both copies have a defective disk 2. So yet again I have to mail back the defective set and request another. Jeesh, when will I finally get to see the episode 7 the musical???
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Summary: I LOVE THIS SHOW!!
Review: This is one of the strongest seasons of the show, my favorite behind season 5. All of the actors are really in their prime and "Once More, With Feeling" is the single best hour of television in history. Thank you Joss Whendon!! Thank you Marti Noxon!! This show is irreplacible, and this season is fantastic.
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Summary: 4 stars for the first attempt...
Review: Ok, I got hooked in late to Buffy. Really late, like after Season 7. FX re-runs started it all (but in a happy way). This DVD set is the first I've ever had a bad disc in-- and OF COURSE it had to be disc 2, containing two episodes I've been WAITING to see for so long! So I haven't seen the muscial episode yet (guess they don't show that in re-runs). I really love the 'Doublemeat' episode-- too much fun! Some complain this season gets too serious or dark or etc., but I appreciate the growth of the characters and the risks Joss & Co. are willing to take to keep the show fresh. One star knocked off because I had to return the first disc set.
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Summary: Multi-region DVD owners beware
Review: This is fine, but late. Check www.Amazon.Co.UK, and you'll see that season 7 came out there months ago, Angel season 4 has been out for a couple of months too. Buffy season 6 was last year's news! Buffy is selling for 29.99 GBP, which is a bargain. The UK packaging is better, and from season 4 onwards they're in widescreen too - which isn't a cropped version, it's actually using footage never seen on TV in the states. Warning though, they are region 2, which means only people with multi-region DVD players can play them.
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Summary: The Darker Side Of Sunnydale
Review: After you kill off your main character, but you know series hasn't been canncelled, it's just switching TV networks, what do you do? Why you bring her back of course...the hard way. Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) is given new life again, thanks to her wicken friend Willow's (Alyson Hannigan) spell, and the rest of the "Scooby Gang". Upon her return, Buffy has a lot of challenges to overcome, all while trying to adjust to being among the living again. Her Watcher Giles (Anthony Stewart Head, now a recurring guest star), decides his slayer has to stand on her own two feet, and heads back to England. Raising her teenage "sister" Dawn (Michelle Tractenberg) provides for its own worry and concern. Buffy is hiding secrets from the beyond that she can only share with enemy turned ally Spike (James Marsters and their relationship takes an interesting turn. While Xander (Nicholas Brendon) and former vengance demon Anya (Emma Caulfield) await their wedding day, a trio of "nerds" from the past, Warren (Adam Busch), Jonathan, (Danny Strong), and Andrew (Tom Lenk) concoct a plan to bring the slayer down. Clearly, for season six, creator Joss Whedon and his team wanted these characters to travel down their darkest alleys yet as they start true adulehood. No more is this clearly evident than wathing the parallel paths taken by Buffy and Willow, throughout the season. In Willow's case, her relationship with her lover Tara (Amber Benson) is tested, when she becomes addicted to magics, following Buffy's return. For the Slayer, confiding in Spike has reprecussions, she never thought of...The nerds provide much needed comedy, rapid fire pop culture references, yet ironically cause the season's darkest surprise, as well. Other highlights: Buffy's former boyfriend Reiley Finn (Marc Blucas) returns, a social worker (Susan Ruttan) looks in on Dawn and gets more than she bargained for, Buffy takes a job at the Doublemeat Palace, and everyone is put their paces in the popular musical episode, Once More With Feeling, directed by Whedon. I got a bit antsy with the nerds after a bit, but if you stick with it the arc does tie in nicely with everything else, in the end. The season six box set, offers the most extras, than any set so far. There are six episode audio commentaries from various writers and directors on the series. As usual the quality of each track depends on who's speaking. Joss Whedon on the musical episode sets the standard high, while Executive Producer/writer Marti Nixon and Poducer/writer David Fury go in the opposite direction discussing 'Bargaining'. There are also quite a few more behind the scenes featurettes this time out. As you might imagine the musical gets a lot attention, complete with sing along music videos. Look for the season overview and the little gem "Buffy takes a job", in which cast/crew talk about on the horrors and delights. New to the mix is an hour long Academy of Television Arts and Sciences panel discussion, origially held at the end of season six, that's good for some cast/crew interaction with an audience of fans. Outtakes, a Buffy interactive game trailer, hidden Easter eggs, some DVD-ROM material, and the usual season guide booklet help to round out the set. Oddly enough, Sarah Michelle Gallar is again, almost nowhere to found, when it comes to the bonus material (as far as the interviews are concerned). Like the character herself, at season's start, the show seems aimless, but by the end it's back on track and it all comes together.
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Summary: Umm......no.
Review: Joss Whedon is truly immature at times. To begin, I donated 150$ to the save Angel campaign. It was a futile effort and ended with an explosive if not disturbing end commenting on their WB master's. Buffy on the other hand, did not deserve a 6th season. This season was about two things as the "Big Bad" addiction and that good girl being mentally than phsyically raped by the Bad boy. And that brings up the biggest complaint. This season brought Spike into light as a whiny and dangerously aggressive... child, right after a redenptive sitch in Season Five. Next complaint is Willow being the big bad after addiction and death. And this is where Joss and I butt heads. Over the course of season four *when the series went downhill* he tried turning the good girl who colour coted her notes, into the majick using lesbian who was more gothic and alternative. I still maintian a good focal point would have been her and Xander finally. Then we have what was truly good about this season. The Trolika. Johnation, Warren, and the best of all ANDREW. Talks are involved of giving Tom Lenk and Anthony Stewart Head their own series. It would be better than Buffy, but no where as good as angel.
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