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Summary: Wow! Season 6 rocks! Brilliant, powerful and dark!
Review: I loved season 6! It's all about growing up and the characters are really learning about making the wrong choices. They become adults and it's a part of their lifes they have to get through. The Buffy and Spike relationship is amazing, there is so much chimestry between them, and what happens to them is realistic. Willow's addiction to magic is very interesting and dark Willow is a hell of a character! Alyson Hannigan gave a wonderful performance and that's why she won a 2002 Teen choice award (best sidekick. Seeing Willow turning into the big bad totally awsome! This season is very serious and that's why I was overwhelmed by the story. Of course it's not always dark, we have the trio (Warren, Andrew and Jonathan) and let me tell you that these guys are so funny! How can season 6 not be the best?-Once More With Feeling (The wonderful musical)
-Tabula Rasa (very funny episode ending up with a hot Buffy and Spike kiss)
-Afterlife
-Life Serial (funny and entertaining) -Bargaining part 1-2 (very emotional)
-Smashed
-Wrecked (Willow's addiction to magic becomes serious)
-Normal Again (what a perfomance by Sarah Michelle Gellar!)
-Dead Things ( one of the darkest episode of season 6, according to me)
-Seeing Red (The most traumatizing episode, I loved it.)
-Two to go and Grave ( just one word: wow) Season 6 is BRILLIANT. It makes us feel all sorts of emotions. It's the most provocative and the best season of Buffy The Vampire Slayer.
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Summary: This is a season that grows on you
Review: I didn't really like the sixth season of Buffy when it originally aired but I love it now. This season, as I have come to realize, takes time to truly appreciate. I was happy that the writers put Spike with Buffy but I was disappointed that their relationship was not more romantic. I grew to hate their [] relationship because it was more about lust than love. I was bothered that it lacked the love of the Buffy/Angel relationship. I now understand and appreciate their (Spike and Buffy's) relationship more now that I understand it was never about love or intimacy. Buffy was with Spike so she could feel less emotionally numb. She never wanted love from him. She just wanted to feel something. This relationship angered many Buffy fans for a while but it is more appreciated now. I like the destructive relationship a little more now because I can see how complex it truly was. It (the relationship) hurt Spike and it made him realize that he had a great dilemma with Buffy: He is unable to be a monster or a man. He is nothing. This realization forces him to fight for a soul and become a (vampire) man as good as Angel. This realization truly changes Spike into a more complex and fascinating character in the seventh season of Buffy. This season of Buffy is great because it has lead to some of the best character development with Spike. It's dark, unsettling and hard to watch at first but it really pulls you in on repeated viewings. I used to think this was one of the worst seasons of Buffy before I realized how deep it truly was. I now think that it is one of the best seasons of ANY series on television.
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Summary: It's no song and dance--Why Season Six is Buffy's best
Review: Why? Well, unlike 99% of television shows, BTVS always worked on three levels: spectacle, plot and metaphor. The first two levels made Buffy fun, but it's metaphor that vaulted the show past depth-free duds like Charmed and relentlessly literal procedurals like CSI. And BTVS never merged metaphor with spectacle and plot better than it did in Season Six. Certainly, Buffy was lovable for its spectacle and plot alone. The show routinely threw everything including the kitchen sink at its audience-scary monsters, silly monsters, romance, rivalries, cool weapons, classic stock characters, a steady stream of one-liners, attractive but relatable teens, magic, slapstick, fashion, gothica, fights, chases, cliffhangers and apocalypses. Sometimes the show even shot through the roof purely on story power-the crashing heartbreak of Season Two and the noirish twists of Season Three were so good that many fans pick these seasons as Buffy's best. But Buffy's writers (Joss Whedon, Jane Espenson, Marti Noxon, Rob Petrie, Drew Greenberg et.al.) were always after bigger game, smuggling in outsized themes and sly symbols beneath the phantasmagoric costumes and improbable plots. Metaphors, references, and subtexts deepened characters and charged storylines, and let Buffy run wild through well-worn genres, riffing on conventions from sitcoms, dramas, cartoons, scifi, mystery, horror, soaps, musicals, reality shows and even silent films and westerns, spoofing everything from 90210 and Kung Fu to X-Files, Kolchak the Night Stalker, Twin Peaks, Stephen King and Scooby Doo. Buffy's subtexts changed and accumulated across time. In Season One, each Monster of the Week stood in for a real problem (a cruel social clique morphing into a pack of hyenas, etc.), all of them contributing to the season's central metaphoric joke (high school is Hell). Seasons Two through Five stretched troubling themes across entire seasons, relying on a Big Villain to set the agenda. In Season Two, it was good love gone bad, using the Angel/Angelus split as a metaphor to toe the line between true love and heartless psychological abuse. Season Three produced the show's first human monster, the treacherous Faith, one of the all-time best narcissistic females in fiction, right up there with Julie Christie in Darling, Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard, and Great Expectations' Estella. Season Four's Adam was a murky metaphor for high tech, biotech and big government coming together in a Brave New World of unintended consequences; sadly, it didn't quite work. Season Five's Glory provided a kaleidoscopic glimpse into borderline, histrionic and schizophrenic personality disorders; Glory's mad goddess combo of conniving haughtiness and fickle rage was a terrific foil for Buffy, whose power is constrained by sanity and morality. This made for a hugely watchable rivalry, and generated some the series' finest quips and duels. All of which built up to the real stunner of the series-Season Six. Finally, the gloves come off-the spectacle, story lines, jokes and genre riffing are still there, but the dark themes stop hiding behind monster masks and chop-socky fights, and not everything revolves around the vanquishing of the season's Big Villain. Everywhere you look, Season Six inverts previously predictable characters. For the first time since Season Three, Buffy's a flawed heroine-she's openly depressed and directionless, still shaken by her mother's death, and incapable of giving or receiving love. Sure, it's a downer, but it also makes Buffy more interesting, because she's too unsettled to revert to her standard kick-ass-and-wrap-up-the-episode mode, and besides, half the time, Buffy's enemy is Buffy. Meanwhile, her sidekicks stumble through a Sunnydale turned upside down: Spike truly loves Buffy, who objectifies and brutalizes him. Icy Anya is decimated by empathetic Xander. Meek Willow gathers power, squanders love, and becomes monstrous. Even Dawn, the incarnation of innocence, quietly slips into petty crime. And all along the way, most of the show's metaphors really click, amplifying the struggles of the characters-disaffected Buffy fades into invisibility, jilted Anya returns to the demon fold, grief and rage warp and blacken Willow, and pretty much everyone in the cast battles tangible and illusory demons as they reluctantly enter the "real" world. Last but not least, the year's Big Villain-the Trio-succeeds where Season Four's Adam failed. The Evil Dweebs are a pitch-perfect sendup of skillful but emotionally clueless nerds who know just enough to run the world into the ground-they're BTVS's slap at dotcom tycoons gone bust, and a cautionary tale about all those dangerously narrow whiz kids now trying to hit the biotech jackpot. The Trio are by turns ludicrously funny and amusingly crafty-right up until the moment they kill innocent people. From the cartoonish freeze ray to the creepy sensory dampener to the obviousness of the mystical brass balls, the puerile metaphors surrounding them deepen the joke while somehow still adding heft to the season's final tragedy, when everything ends with a gun. So it says here that Season Six is the pick of the litter, that it preserves the fun of previous seasons while adding another level of dramatic depth, that it's the product of clever writers in top form, and that you should get these DVD's.
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Summary: Joss's best work
Review: The 6th season marked the transition of Buffy the Vampire Slayer from WB to UPN. I've heard some people critique 6th season as too dark, moody and just not Buffy. Who are we to say what is Buffy, that right is reserved solely for the artist who created the art, Joss Whedon, and it is art. A big congrats are owed to him for taking the show beyond the limits that some would set before him. Attempting to define to him how his work should be, just because that's what they want to watch.
For those consevative puritanists who think he should have stayed the beaten path, I say this don't buy the DVD then. It is however high on my short list.
My personal favorite is "Once More With Feeling". It proved that Joss has a true gift for TV story telling, and is a genius for artistically blending the many elements the show posesses into the most entertaining episode.
This season contributed to maturing and enlargening the characters, strengthening the success born out of an off the wall, cheesey, early 90's movie.
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Summary: one of the best shows on earth
Review: Buffy the vampire slayer season six was amazingly dark, brooding, and astonishingly wonderful. Any fan of buffy must own this dvd set, feauturing the highly praised musical episode.
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Summary: Favorite Season
Review: For people that say that this season was the worst one ever, then I don't know what show you were watching. I loved this season because it was "dark" and real. I always loved the fact that even though Buffy was a show in the mystical realm that it was still grounded and this season grounded things even more. Now the relationship between Buffy and Spike may not have been the best for both chracters, but they needed one another at that point in there "lives". Life is not always going to be happy and carefree and this season showed this with a the beautiful, dark story line. This season said that sometimes your worst enemy is oneself. The atempted rape scene was a saying that even the most strong women can be in danger to the world. However, Buffy did fight back and Spike Left. He Knew he was wrong for what he did and Buffy figured their relationship was bad for both parties. People have said that this season was a blow to the feminist movement, but how is that true. A woman was the villian (Willow)because she was pushed because of Men. Now she may have taken her rage out the wrong way, but she still dealt with the men that took her love away from her. Buffy was lost and needed something to hold onto who eneded up being Spike. SHE used him and he knew what was going on but loved her enough to ignore what she was doing. Spike voluntarly left and went to go get his soul through a horrific torture process and that was something he didn't have to do if this season was truly that horrible. He wanted to show Buffy he could change for the good. This whole season was about the chrarcters growing up and realizing some truths about themselves. It was a messy process, but I enjoyed watching them go through it.
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Summary: Buffy was the most underrated and best tv shows in history
Review: Alot of people i know dont like Buffy the vampire slayer because they think its really cheesey, but once you get past that you see that the show is actually very whitty and has great writers like joss whedon.Season six is very cool and I like how they focus on Willow and Tara a bit more and we get to see how powerful they really are i mean when they brought Buffy back from the dead that was friggen cool! then at the end of the season when the sweetest and most ignored character of the show Tara dies it sends Willow on a wickedly cool rampage to kill Warren.Anyway i wont spoil anymore because im sure you will want to discover all the highs and lows of this fantastic journey.I definately recomend to any buffy fan and if your not try it you got nothing to lose!
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Summary: The Season That Pissed off Snotty Buffy Fans
Review: And that's what I really think. I've gone through and read most of what everyone has had to say, positive and negative. Of course the positive looks at this season in a fairer light, whereas the latter doesn't. A lot fo fans wanted to stay in the ultra hip Season 2-3 (which while are good, have become HIGHLY overrated) mold while it was own. The writers whom some have called all types of names, have been on the show for quite sometime, so I feel they delivered as usual. This season pushed buttons and made people think. For me I liked the fact that this show addressed more mature themes. That as Joss had stated it's about dealing with life. To keep it short and sweet the episodes just were really well written (in my opinion), I always was at the edge of my seat waiting to see what happened next. I'm not gonna write a huge sypnosis, because it's been done already. What I will tell you that is despite what has been said this season delivers action, drama, love, and horror very well than anything on TV now. As for those who said the ratings dropped here, that started around Season 5.
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Summary: The 6th Season of Buffy
Review: Buffy the Vampire Slayer ,after Season Five, was horrible for me because I thought the show was gone. I remember after the episode, "The Weight Of The World", the Wb said "Here are scenes from next week's series finale of Buffy" and I screamed NOOOOOO!!!. But then seeing "Buffy lives" every where and found out Buffy just moved to UPN. When I saw the 2-part premerie "Bargaining", I knew it was going to be another great season. Then I see Buffy sleeping with Spike, Willow's addiction to magic, Xander and Anya's wedding a disater, and Dawn stealing. This season was a way bigger change from 5 to 6, then 3 to 4. The gang was doing things we never thought they would do, especially Buffy sleeping with Spike over and over and over... and Willow getting addicted. This was the biggest controversal season since 4 but bigger. Peolpe hated this seaon and tried to for get it and even Sarah Michelle Gellar had trouble doing the season. After watching Season 6 over again, I liked it even more then before and I enjoyed the Buffy/Spike sex scenes. Buffy came back from the dead again, but for 3 months instead of 3 minutes. Buffy had to be depressed and find comfort in Spike because they related to each other more in this season than ever. Season 6 was a season for the gang to finally take that step into adulthood. The season was real and dealt with common problems in life today, but fans didn't want that. Season 6, even thought underrated by Buffy "supposed" fans, had great episodes(better then 2,3, and 5):"Bargaining pt. 1 and 2","After Life","Once More,With Feeling","Tabula Rasa", "Normal Again, "Seeing Red", "Villians" and The 2-part season finale "Two To Go" and "Grave" were brillant episodes. This season is great(as usaual)and is for all Buffy fans, and if you don't buy it on July 6, don't call yourself a fan
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Summary: Still the best
Review: The most obvious thing to state about Season 6 of Buffy is that a lot of fans hate it, whilst there's a core group who defend it with their lives. Personally, Season 6 is perhaps the most ambitious season of any TV show in history. Moving the characters from out of the safe college settings and splitting them up to inflict the depression and monotony of adult life was a brave decision by Joss Whedon. Among the various story arcs there's Buffy's abusive relationship with Spike, the most complex and interesting relationship the show's had. Hating Spike, hating herself, Buffy goes into freefall. There's also the badly handled drugs metaphor of Willow's 'addiction' to magic, which was thankfully partly rectified in Season 7; Xander and Anya drift into a marriage, into adulthood, before Xander decides he's not ready, and Dawn is neglected by the family that's supposed to support her. My first defence of Season 6 would be that whilst admitedly some writers didn't seem to 'get' Whedon's vision for the year (and it's notable that he wasn't around as much), many did, and Season 6 offers up some of the show's best ever moments. The most obvious, tellingly the only one in the series written by Whedon, was the musical episode Once More With Feeling. This blew self-indulgent attempts at musical episodes from the likes of Xena and Ally McBeal out of the water. Not only is each song catchy, hummable, borrowing from a wide variety of sources, but each one is required to eke out the pain, heartbreak or love of characters that feel too emotionally clammed up to talk normally about their feelings rationally. Plus, Giles and Tara's duet is sublime. Bargaining Part 1 is probably the best season opener, which set up the darker themes of the season from the get-go. Dead Things is the single most dark episode the show's ever done (with the possible exception of Lies My Parents Told Me), with Buffy and Spike's relationship coming around on itself as Buffy desire to 'feel' turns inwards on itself in a brilliantly conceived, and very creepy dream sequence. The big story of the season though, was the death of Tara by geek-turned-murderer Warren accidentally shoot her through her bedroom window. Though a lot of people have complained that this is some kind of anti-gay comment by Whedon, it's clear to anyone who actually watches the show that this couldn't be any further from the truth. The hideously unexpected death serves to push Willow over the edge in a spiral of despair and hopelessness that grips you like the show's never gripped you before. Though Grave is a bit too sentimental, the fact that destroying the world seems to be the only solution to Willow's misery seems appropriate. Unfortunately, Season 6 was marred by a few sub-standard episodes. Doublemeat Palace of course springs to mind, though Flooded, Life Serial and Hell's Bells never really fulfilled their potential and displayed soapier elements of the show that didn't really work. In spite of this though, we get to see Sarah Michelle Gellar's best acting to date as her character is fleshed out to become a genuinely complicated and increasingly interesting character. Her acting in Seeing Red, Once More With Feeling, Afterlife and Normal Again is Emmy-worthy, though predictably it wasn't recognised. Whilst Season 6 wasn't as good as Season 5 it's still an immensely brave and interesting piece of television that will be remembered in years to come as Buffy's more experimental period. To really appreciate it though you've got to ask yourself whether any other show around could go to places as dark as Season 6 did? Well worth owning.
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