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Summary: It's all downhill from here folks!
Review: Season Six can best be summed up as the Nude Spike season. Oh yeah and bad interpretations of drug use. I give this season 2 stars, since it is not as wretched as the horribly boring season Seven. "Once More With Feeling" is the real stand-out show of the season with Tara providing the best voice.
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Summary: Very Good Choice
Review: The Buffy Season 6 DVD set has been released in Australia for some time now, so this is a review of the DVD, not the season itself. The color commentaries in this set are not nearly so interesting as the DVD's of seasons past. Joss Whedon only comments on the musical episode. Whedon is great but the others are rather boring. The panel discussion is monotonous to the point of being painful. Some good comedy in the "Buffy goes to work" segment, though, and the outtakes are funny as well. No alternate endings (available on buffywatch.com) are provided in the DVD set.
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Summary: Ok, Listen up.
Review: Seasons 1-5 were directed by Joss Wheadon. (Side note: Trust in the Joss. Have Faith in the Joss. Remember how silly you felt when Buffy had a sister all of a sudden, and you complained that he was cheating and thought there couldn't possibly be an explanation for it all? Well, he had it all planned beforehand. He even gave us hints the season before, when brat-boy cast his spell that changed reality. So there. I had faith. I didn't whine. I was excited and wanted to see where he was going with it... YES, that IS an I-told-you-so.)Now, the point. Season 6 was directed by Marti Noxon, his understudy. It is different because she is different. Like hot and sour soup from two different cooks, it is not bad, but it is not the same, either. This, aparently, in a lot of cases freaked longtime fans out completely. So... get over it. This is the way it is. Someone else took over for a season and did the same things Joss would have done to the characters, but she is a different cook: her taste is darker, less happy, less friendly. The dialouge is different. The show is different. If you like it, good for you; if not, that's ok too. I, personaly, will be getting this because I like the characters and the show and just wanna see how it all works out, without commercials. I don't really care what you do, I just wanted you to know why it was different. Thanks for listening.
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Summary: Season six of buffy
Review: Buffy is one of the best female ass kicking show on this planet. Season six of buffy was about life. It was confusing at first because so many things went wrong. Buffy was sleeping with spike, xander left anya on her weddind day and willow was using too much magic and Buffy's sister dawn was stealing from stores. If your really a Buffy fan, then you need to get this season.
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Summary: ONE OF THE BEST SEASONS!
Review: I am an avid Buffy fan and I Season 6 is on of the best seasons! I don't understand how anyone who is a true BtVS fan could not love this season. If I had to pick a favorite (or two) from this season is would be the final episodes with evil Willow. AWESOME! Can't wait for Season 7 to come out on DVD!
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Summary: Another superb season of the best TV show ever!
Review: With Season Five of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Joss Whedon and his team of writers and producers proved that they could expand the show by forcing the characters to grow up and learn everything about life's lessons. So with Season Six, the task was to show what can happen once you've achieved the knowledge you desired before you had it. Our beloved characters are taken all the way down to rock bottom to show that they are indeed human just like everyone else. The effort and determination is shown throughout "Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Complete Sixth Season," which was snubbed by many fans, but was definitely one that no one could ignore. Season Five's heartbreaking finale saw Buffy sacrifice her own life in order to save her sister Dawn and the world from destruction. The future of the show is in turmoil for viewers, but we are soon given answers. Not much has changed since the last time we saw them. Willow (Alyson Hannigan) and Tara (Amber Benson) are still together, but have moved into Buffy's house to look after Dawn (Michelle Trachtenberg). Xander (Nicholas Brendon) and Anya (Emma Caulfield) are happily engaged to be wed later in the season. Giles (Anthony Stewart-Head) is wondering if he is still really needed in Sunnydale, while Spike (James Marsters) is still lurking around the town and brooding over the death of the slayer. It sounds depressing, and it is - the Buffy Bot that first made its presence in Season Five is still active and is being used by the Scoobies to fool the evil nasties of Sunnydale into thinking it's still Buffy, alive and well. In the two-part season opener, "Bargaining Part 1" and "Bargaining Part 2," Buffy is brought back to life by Willow and the gang. However, they fail to understand that a sacrifice taken back is a sacrifice negated, and soon find themselves haunted by other-worldly apparitions in "Afterlife." After tears, tantrums and make ups, life returns to normal for the Slayer except she believes that she was in Heaven and torn out by her friends, who believed she was in Hell. "Flooded" and "Life Serial" sees Buffy trying to do ordinary things like fix bust water pipes and holding down a job. These episodes bring us the seasons' main story arc. The Trio consists of Warren (Adam Busch), Andrew (Tom Lenk) and Jonathan (Danny Strong). Together they work together on some ludicrous plot to overthrow the Slayer and rule Sunnydale in a storyline which focuses more on humour and comedy more so than thrilling action. Their first few missions include using a freeze gun to steal a diamond from a museum ("Smashed") and accidentally turning Buffy invisible with their latest gadget ("Gone"). Things get more serious as the season progresses as their need for domination and power takes over their lives. In "Dead Things" Warren accidentally kills his ex-girlfriend, and frames Buffy for the murder. Later on in "Normal Again" they unleash a demon on Buffy which makes her believe that her friends are just figments of her imagination and that she has spent most of her teenage life in an insane asylum. Things finally crumble in "Seeing Red" when Warren shoots Buffy in her back yard, almost killing her. A stray bullet flies throw the bedroom window and hits Tara suddenly, killing her instantly. This turns Willow evil and sees her out to get her revenge on the three nerds in the spectacular final episodes of the season, "Villains," "Two To Go" and "Grave." Willow has just got back together with Tara in the previous episode after they split up earlier in the season when Tara left her due to her magic addiction. When Willow jeopardises Dawn's life in "Wrecked" after becoming hooked on a warlock's magical powers, she vows to quit magic. She's doing fine until Tara is shot, and everything turns upside down. As previously stated, Season Six focuses on lives and relationships and none are more shocking than the one between Buffy and Spike. After Spike admitted his love for the Slayer in Season Five, Buffy turns up the heat in Season Six by having casual sex on a regular basis with Spike in episodes such as "Doublemeat Palace." It's something she wouldn't normal do, but she finds herself feeling that she needs to force her emotions. She ends this later on in the season, but Spike tragically rapes her in "Seeing Red," in one of the most disturbing and horrific scenes of the entire series. Riley returns for one episode in "As You Were," along with his new wife. Willow and Tara break up, then make up before being eternally separated. Xander is too blind to see that he's not ready for married life, before fleeing the alter in "Hells Bells," leaving Anya devastated. She reverts to being a vengeance demon once more and wreaks havoc on Xander's emotions in "Entropy." Dawn feels the need for more attention and begins to steal things from the Magic Box. As the centre of attention in Season Five, she craves more in the season and doesn't get it before Buffy figures out her younger sister's pleas in "Older And Far Away." The real gems of Season Six come in the form of "Once More, With Feeling" and "Tabula Rasa." The former is the much-hyped musical episode and is a masterpiece in modern television. Simply put the episode is an Emmy-nominated phenomenon and will go down in history. The latter is the funniest episode of the season where the gang all forget who they are, but beneath lies a much darker topic which involves Willow and her unstoppable addiction to the dark arts. All in all Season Six of Buffy the Vampire Slayer may not have been one in which the show had some of the best episodes, but it is definitely the boldest of all the seasons. The characters go to dark places that even the biggest of fans would have never though of, and it's all to prove that they are human beings like the rest of us, and that they can overcome their troubles, mistakes and fears to grow and evolve as proper adults. Take a chance and watch this season. Even if you don't like it you will be touched by it, and that's something.
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Summary: Vintage Buffy
Review: The sixth season continued in the spirit and included much of the atmosphere of earlier seasons, but met with a slight downfall in trying to give too much attention to Dawn. Dawn, having no personality of her own and being an incredibly shallow, flat character, cannot hold together the plotline of an entire episode, as she was expected to do in this season's Halloween episode. Dawn is no better than Cordelia in character development, and she has less purpose. The show could have done without all the excessive Buffy and Spike scenes, as he was more fun when trying to kill her, rather than having sex with her, which was just redundant. Still, while the season lacks a good antagonist, it has a great many episodes that are original, fun, and classic Buffy. The last three episodes with an Evil Willow was a wonderful ending, with the sole exception of her not continuing her dark witchiness to the next season. By the ending of this season, Willow was without a doubt the only strong character left, and she would have proven a worthy adversary in the seventh season (instead of simply being in the background). This would have provided an interesting subplot to divert from the tiring First Evil plot. Indeed, by the end of this season, only Willow seems to have really developed progressively, with Buffy going a little too far into the sister/mother role for Dawn, Xander still whining over Anya, Anya being a somewhat less-than-evil vengeance demon, Giles stepping out, and Spike...well he just sleeps with Buffy. It is a toss up over the worst episode of this season, the Halloween episode, or the one where Riley returns to remind us of what the world was like last season, but there were far more successful episodes than failures.
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Summary: Nerds of Doom
Review: There's a lot of reasons to love Season 6-moments of darkness and desperation, little shafts of light that manage to break through and seem all the sweeter for being there, and juicy, rich, complex storytelling that went in new directions. These are the dark woods of Whedon's little universe, where the show's characters were not only likely to be stalked by the wolves, but to find out they had turned into one themselves. And that maybe they liked it. But the title (and point) of this review is to talk about the three guys who were the mainstay villains of the season-the Trio (as they preferred to be called) of Warren, Jonatahan and Andrew , the Nerds of Doom (the superteam name I've heard associated with them the most). While, as one reviewer points out, the Buffy cast was forced into grown-up roles (one big reason that Giles leaving is so portentious) and deal with life at its worst, the Nerds went in the opposite direction, as all good villains do, and steadfastly refused to grow up. It's what made them funny-arguing over which James Bond is the best, treasuring their Star Wars (and Trek) collectibles, and acting like the goofy fanboys who are a target audience for the show itself. Most of their plots are living out this adolescent fantasy life-money heists, super-spy gadgetry, all in pursuit of living out their other adolescent power fantasies, in which they are the cool guys with money, women, and respect. This is also what makes them so damned dark-the inability to let go of the past, to the point that people die over their petty deisres. They're not my favorite villain(s) of the whole series, though-that honor belongs to Willow. Willow unhinged is the culmination of an entire season's worth of set-up and plots, and she doesn't disappoint, in terms of drama or action. The one villain Buffy is unable to defeat herself (even helped out by a suped-up Giles in a satisfying last-minute rescue) she's the darkest of a dark bunch-hell-bent on revenge, and ultimately, ending the world, as her way of coping with a pit of grief and despair she can no longer fight her way out of. In Season 2, Angel proved no one can hurt you like the one you love-Willow does it again, with a methodical cruelty and power the like of which no one else in the series comes close to matching. Maybe some fans missed the point of this season-but six is still a standout, with some of the best-and most wrenching-hours in the series' run. Pre-Order it now, you fools.
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Summary: Dont Know Why Everyone Slags Season 6 and 7
Review: Over the years, I had always heard about how good btvs is, and so, when convenient, id watch it if it was on... "good show" id say, then id change the channel and get over it. That changed when I was flipping through the channels one night, and came across Willow and Tara smiling at one another, only to see a bullet fly into Tara and blood spray across the face of Willow... "Whats this" i thought... I have never seen (on television) an actor put so much emotion into a facial expression (with help from some CGI of course) like Alyson Hannigan did as she looked up at the camera, eyes glowing red... Blank to credits... "Whoah" i thought, checked out the time and day it was, so i could be sure to catch what happens next week... This resulted into an almost obsession with this television show, I mean, the end of season 6 is what got me hooked onto the whole buffyverse. Although, when spike gets his soul, i was like "so whats the big deal", then i started watching season 1 and 2... "oh... it is a big deal" i realized. Anyways, im just babbling, i guess i just feel compelled to stick up for what was clearly the series most BOLD season.. Thats it I guess...
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Summary: Uncomfortable, Disturbing, and Everchanging - That's Life !
Review: In most fan sites and forums, Season Six tends to get lambasted as a departure from what Buffy was all about. She goes easy on the quips and has to deal with so much. To be fair, Season Five was a great "War" story. They do battle all season, and at then end they find that they have "Kinda Won". But in Season 6, as others have said, the problems are all internal. To emphasize this, Whedon makes the "Villans" serve as comic relief until the very end of the season. As far as the shows, I think that OMWF, if possible, has been underrated. The tradegy and drama, as well as the amazing compression of storytelling that was achieved by the song lyrics, raise it to the level of greatness. For me though, the highlight comes in the last episode, when Buffy tells Giles all of the problems that they have had, and they both just burst into laughter. In that laughter comes the healing that Buffy (and the fans, who have been wounded by the blows of this year) truly needs, and at that point you know that (at least for now) the battle has been won.
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