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Summary: This is a completely different show.
Review: The shows changes completely this season. The trick to the show's success was the mixture of drama and humor. In any situation the writer's found a way to inject humor into it, and that humor fit in perfectly. It showed how resilient people can be when they are put into difficult situations. That didn't happen this year. By mid-season I gave up on it, and even before then I was fast-forwarding through much of the episodes because it was unbearable. It was like the show had morphed into a stupid sci-fi show that had little in common with the world we live in. Anyway, I'm going to quickly summarize some specific reasons why I was bored to tears with this season: --The humor just disappears this year. Every episode in my favorite seasons (2 and 3) kept me laughing, and the way humor was mixed in to advance the plot in an entertaining way was amazing. There were no bad scenes in those early years, everything was either dramatic or funny. Not so anymore. --The show becomes like Star Trek. I never liked Star Trek because I can't identify with it at all. My love for Buffy was the way things related to the real word--when they were in high school and college I could identify, and their super-hero lives were secondary to growing up. This season, it is like Sunnydale went from a normal community with a secret to a crazed over-run freak show. Part of the hook of the show was the secret dangers the gang protected everyone from. Now, the dangers are not secret. You have huge monster biker gangs roaming around looking like they are space aliens. --Spike did not become "good" this season. He has a chip and his head and it is in his best interest to help the gang. His relationship with Buffy really betrays the history of the show, namely that Angel is only good because he has a soul. Spike does not have a soul, and he has not changed--as showed by his completely in-character assault on Buffy. I can't believe people think that is the betrayal. The betrayal is having Buffy's character "fall" for someone who is evil. What a joke. This was not about someone you knew wasn't good for you but you lusted after anyway. This was about a serial killer, and the show's heroine willingly had a relatoinship with him. Guh, it's no wonder I have to interest in seeing any of Season 7. Well, that's about it. I hope this helped if you have not seen this season, because the change has been dramatic. If you don't like really hard core sci fi like Star Trek or Firefly then that might be a sign not to buy this season.
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Summary: "No one wants to see the village of happy idiots."
Review: Those words were spoken by the man himself, Joss Whedon. I'm going to keep this review short. Buffy's sixth season was without a doubt very dark and provocative, and to be honest, I loved every single minute of it. This season really brought out the true fans of Buffy: the ones who will stick with their show no matter what, the fans who are welcome to new ideas and concepts! Not the fans who always want things to stay the same, I mean come on! Can you imagine how boring the show might have been if they stayed in high school forever. It would seem a little overused to me. This is a great season of Buffy! Do not listen to those fans who suposedly have been fans of the show forever and spell Xander and Tara's name: Zander and Terra! (::fake cough:: yeah right they are real fans ::fake cough::) So buy this DVD set!
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Summary: The BEST season of Buffy The Vampire Slayer!!!!!
Review: If you've given season 6 less then 5 stars than I honestly suggest watching it again. This is by far the best season. Although the show is supenatural this season focused more on the reality of growing up and becoming an adult. Having to deal with responsibilities, pressure, relationships, and more is a huge part of all our lives and what better way to present these issues with a supernatural show like Buffy. It took it to a dark place yes, but we've all been in dark phases of our lives where nothing seems to go right...That's life and that's why this show is brilliant. In my opinion besides "Double meat palace" all the episodes were great. To name just a few of my favorites... Top 10 (not in any particular order) 10. Bargaining part 1 and 2
9. Afterlife - Buffy's speech (This is for my friend Kenny) =)
8. Once More W/ Feeling - Just brilliant
7. Tabula Rasa - Ready Randy? Ready Joan!
6. Smashed - The sound of the zipper..hmmm
5. Wrecked - Magick = Drugs
4. Hell's Bells - sad, but very well done
3. Normal Again - My Favorite one!!
2. Older & Far Away - I really love Halfrek
1. Two To Go/Grave - who doesn't enjoy Evil Willow?
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Summary: Buffy's weakest season, but still better than most TV
Review: Season 6 was a very mixed bag. It contained some gems (such as Once More, with Feeling), but as a whole, it didn't work. A large part of this was the mishandling of the whole Dark Willow plotline. Making magic act like drugs just didn't work, nor did it fit in with what we've seen past shows. Yes, there were hints that overusing magic could be a problem, but the problem was more of the "power corrupts" sort (like the one ring in Tolkien), not a physical addiction. And several of the episodes of Willow dealing with this were among the worst the show has ever produced. (In fact, I'd rank "Wrecked" next to any episode at the bottom of the list.) On the other hand, I really liked "Normal Again," which I know a number of people didn't like. Overall, the season was a disapointment, after a season 5 that seemed to recover some of the energy of seasons 2 and 3. But still, all and all, so-so Buffy is better than 90% of what's on TV.
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Summary: Buffy's Sixth Season: "Once More With Fries on the Side"
Review: I've noticed that season 6 of Buffy really seperates us all into one of two categories: Category 1: The defending fan aka el fan defendo. The "I'll stop at nothing to back this season up with positive remarks" fan. This fan loves the show unconditionally and refuses to be objective about its overpowering story. Plus, you know, the musical rocked, man. Woohoo. Category 2: The post-fan. The fan that wishes Buffy would have ended at season 5. The anti-fan fan. This fan mocks the supposed "dark theme" of season 6, and he/she is also against fast food. Oh, and this fan also occasionally knocks the musical because hey, singing so uncool on television. Well, I'm arrogant and have no time to lose, so I'll put myself in category 1. I actually liked season 6. Yep, that's right, and I think you should own it; in fact, I think all your friends should own it as well, unless of course they spell the name "Tara" wrong. Curious on how I arrived at my opinion? Well, here's why: Reason #1: Life Serial, because we all love it when Buffy stomps on Giles' glasses. Also, we find out that mummy hands are hard to come by. That's swell writing. Reason #2: Andrew. Okay, so we all knew him as "Tucker's Brother" that year, but he's still good with the one-liners. Reason #3: Bunnies. Evil bunnies. Reason #4: Once More With Feeling. They're all pretty and they sing using their actual voices. Brilliant. Reason #5: Reason #4 again. Reason #6: The fact that they went "there" with the story lines. That took guts, and I believe Season 6 will be more and more respected as time goes by. So, if you want to see some exceptional TV that will make you smile, then buy Gillmore Girls when its first season comes out. However, if you want to see some powerful, funny, provocative, thought-provoking television on dvd, then I'd suggest you get Season 6 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
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Summary: The series best season...
Review: This is the series' best season. I never understand the angst some fans have about this season. It dealt with everything that young people go through when they grow up. And that includes the hallow feelings some deal with after suffering a very tragic event. OMWF doesn't need to be discussed, its a classic. But there are so many other episodes in this series which are instant classics, if only given the chance. Don't listen to the naysayers! In my opinion this is the season for Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
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Summary: Terrible season should have ended at 5
Review: As the title says, lets not get into the fact that Dawn is still around, considering the fact that, as the key, she should have vanished after season 5. But go right to the nitty gritty. IT WAS A SOAP, it wasn't dark just boring, it was a "How fast can we wreck these characters lives?" If only one or two of the characters had been given a bad time, that would've been okay, because we still had the others to fall back on, but NOOOO!!! every character got put through the wringer. I hated the progression of the B/S thing, not because I thought he was evil, but because I thought he had more of a soul than Angel. Think about it, Angel is only good because of a Gypsy curse, when you see flashbacks of him as a mortal, he is scum. Spike, gained our sympathy as he truly loves Buffy, he gained a soul through his love for Buffy. BUT NOOOO!! That's not right, she can't love him, he hasn't been cursed, he hasn't got a soul, he's evil, despite the fact that he's helped them throughout the last 2 season's (without having to) and that he loves her without having to be cursed by Gypsies. So they had her "wake up!" and hate herself for lusting after this non-cursed vampire and then to cap it all they have him attempt to rape her. Spike did not have a soul and helped the gang anyway, despite what you can say about the chip and his desire to fight, he still fell in love with Buffy. Angel only loved her because he was cursed with a soul. (watch S2 to see Angel's real persona) Spike managed to love Buffy through the demon that has possessed him, this was a far better relationship than Angel, who only loved her because his personality and feelings were the result of this curse, (remember the curse said that he would be given a soul full of remorse, NOT HIS OWN BACK). Anya and Xander, I would have loved them to be together, they were a great pair, BUT NOOOO!! that doesn't fit in with the general ambience of the series. The Trio should have remained as bumbling would be villains. Nothing they attempted should have come off, and the big arc could then have been Willow's going over to the dark side, BUT NOOO!! They were a threat and their comic relief was destroyed. Dawn!!!! That's enough said, did we need a whiny teenager? NO! Willow/Tara, an attempt to make sure that no character remained unscathed. Giles, obviously Anthony Head read the series synopsis and decided to vacate the scene, before they turned him into a poodle or something. Okay OMWF was good, but that was it.
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Summary: Themes.
Review: Season 6 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer dealt more with themes rather than a major story arc with a big bad. It delt with redemption, depression, loss, suffering, death, human falicy, and love. It was the season that had to be in order to truly bring back Buffy from the dead (end of season 5), if Buffy came back just as she was I'd have been very disappointed. See she was in heaven and being ripped out of heaven can't be a good feeling. So our hero was depressed, she was human. She got into a bad relationship to fill her life to make it better. But it didn't and at the end of this very dark season with a very dark season finale we got a freshly redeemed Buffy. Xander jilts Anya and she deals with that depressing, while he deals with that depression. Willow becomes addicted to magic as one would herion and Tara leaves her for that, then Tara gets killed and Willow doesn't handle that well and falls off the wagon big time. Dawn is a petty thief. Giles is gone. Joyce is gone. All of this loss came into view for the characters, all this sorrow. This season wasn't bad as people say, it was needed. It was the perfect season to follow up the fantastic 5th season. The scoobie gang grew up.
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Summary: You must see
Review: The soap of Marti Noxon unfortunately transformed my beloved BTVS into sex and pain by this season (subsequently making watching difficult), but I admittedly loved the "Once more with feeling" episode which sent main characters into song throughout the entire episode. Here was an episode both original and reccent BTVS fans agreed upon for innovation and quality. "Walk through the fire's" morose-but melodic chorus from Buffy herself (Sarah Michelle Gellar) would have been an awesome theme song for the show if the producing team had wanted to update the BTVS opening credits. Alas, it was not to be. Anthony Stewart Head had previously appeared on stage productions of the Rocky Horror Picture Show...etc but his vocal range was less impressive in OMWF. This honor goes to James Marster's "Rest in Peace" which combines rock and roll with the supernatural. I have not had such an arrangement stuck in my head since the theme song to the short-lived "Munsters Today" from the late 1980's. I would not recomend the entire BTVS season six at large, but this one episode is an interesting experience which should not be missed. Since the CD is available as a separate entitiy, it would be awesome to make a separate DVD just for this episode. Purchasing this single episode would be well worth your money.
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Summary: Buffy the Hamburger Flipper
Review: Or, "Once More, With Rehearsal." I'm a long-time Buffy fan, and heartily recommend virtually everything about it - except this season. Producer Joss Whedon simply spread himself too thin, devoting almost all his attentions to the musical episode "Once More, With Feeling" - and it shows - and to premiering his quickly-failed sci-fi/western series, Firefly. With Angel taking up the rest of his time, Buffy suffered pretty badly. The opening episodes dealing with Buffy's (Sarah Michelle Gellar) return from the grave are noteworthy, but the season overall finally succumbs to the numerous character and plot inconsistencies that began creeping in during Season Four - one of the most notable examples being Buffy's meeting-up with former flame Reilly Finn (Marc Blucas) on an undercover operation that turns out to be against her new flame, Spike (James Marsters); Buffy, the year before, booted Reilly out of her life for sleeping with vampire hookers, but when Reilly discovers Buffy is betraying her mission and her friends by literally sleeping with the enemy, he just laughs it off. The biggest problem with Season Six is that there is no hero - or heroine - in it. The resurrected Buffy is a depressed and demoralized slacker with no guts or moral fibre, descending into dehumanizing sleazy sex with her former mortal enemy, Spike, and virtually punting her former career and her friends' trust over the proverbial Hellmouth. Whatever supposed realism Whedon was attempting to subject his characters to, it falls flat for the very simple reason that no one wants to see their heroes degraded - and Season Six degraded Buffy in virtually every single episode. Her greatest accomplishment of the year is to take on a McJob flipping burgers - seriously! The second problem with Season Six is its focus. Previous years had strong story arcs that played as grand opera. Season Six plays as soap-opera, from its frequent character inconsistencies to its cheap comedy emphasis. The production level similarly suffers compared to previous seasons, despite the much-vaunted supposed budget increase per episode. And - for the most part - the comedy just isn't funny at all, but rather pathetic, and certainly below the level the series had formerly raised the bar on. A very unfunny "funny" music score is badly overused through much of the season, as if the show itself knows its jokes and situations are flat, and has to cue the audience in that they should be laughing. Thirdly, the villains are sub-par. In keeping with Buffy's new soap-opera/sitcom thrust, the major villains are three absurd post-high school nerds trying to be super-villains. They are well-played, admittedly, and may have been worth a few episodes' subplot story arc, but somehow they just seem inappropriate as an entire season's central focus. Willow (Alyson Hannigan) gets to do a nice star-turn at the end of the season as the interesting but unlikely Big Bad, taking a literal turn to the Dark Side in revenge for the murder of her lover Tara (Amber Benson), but it comes too late in the season to generate sufficient interest, and resolves too quickly for credibility. The season isn't a complete loss, and is at least worth watching for the musical, which is superior. The characters have always been likeable and sympathetic, and for the most part remain so here, but lose much of their lustre due to bad scripts. If you're new to Buffy, you might enjoy this season, but if you're a long-time fan and remember when the show was brilliant, Season Six will be a terrible disappointment. The show would have been much better off concluding with Buffy's death at the end of Season Five - but, hey, there was still merchandising in the market, and UPN was willing to pick it up for two more overextended years. Which put Buffy in the sad position of proving the old adage that old heroes never die, they just live long enough to disgrace themselves. Just thought you should be forewarned.
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