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Summary: The Final Nail in the Coffin
Review: With the move of "Buffy" to UPN and the shifting of executive-producer responsibility from Joss Whedon to Marti Noxon, the final nail was driven into the Slayer's coffin--literally and metaphorically. The fourth and fifth seasons had shown a depressing decline in overall quality, but by season six, the show's writing staff not only hit the bottom of the barrel, they scraped right through it and started digging for China.The year began with an interesting concept: Buffy, killed in the season five finale, gets dragged out of heaven and restored to life by her well-meaning but ultimately clueless friends. To console herself, she enters into a degrading and abusive sado-masochistic affair with vampire Spike. There was nothing 'daring' or funny or remotely entertaining about this arc: it was all about a monster with no soul callously taking advantage of a young woman's extreme emotional vulnerability to gratify his base desires. The nadir of the arc occurs when she finally breaks off with him and he tries to rape her. For a show known for its witty feminism in its first 3 seasons, this is nothing short of vile. Parents, *don't* let your kids, especially young girls, watch this dreck. It sends so many bad messages about sex and male-female relationships that it's mind-boggling. Elsewhere, the main villains of the season are three incredibly annoying high school dropout nerds who live in a basement and argue about arcane trivia from movies, comics, etc. (Yes, let's bite the hand that feeds us!) The show's writers may have found this funny, but they were about as amusing as a case of poison ivy. Hard to believe this mindless drivel was created by the same folks who came up with the first three seasons' big bads: the Master, Angelus, and the Mayor. Don't let anyone kid you that Tara's death was some kind of big tragedy. She was a two-bit boring wet dishcloth whose sole purpose on the series (for two entire seasons!) was to remind viewers that Willow was "gay now!" (as if) and provide some occasional girl-on-girl titillation (for those turned on by pudding-faced dirty blondes who can't act; hey, there's no accounting for taste). As her presence was negligible at best, her absence scarcely made an impact the following season. And "Evil Willow?" Oh, puh-leeze. Just a tired and obvious re-tread of the far superior Buffy vs. Faith in season three, only with much more outlandish fighting and hokey special effects. Marti Noxon earned her own special place in hell for the insipid "magic addiction" plot. Xander and Anya, another complete waste of space: their thoroughly irritating "relationship" ended predictably with non-marriage. Anya gets her demonic mojo back, then does precisely nothing with it. Oh, and let's not forget whiny annoying younger sibling Dawn, who spends most of the season holding up the walls because, let's face it, when Glory died, Dawn's whole purpose on the show died with it. Alas, someone forgot to tell the writers. [This also applied to pretty much 90% of the cast, who were kept around long after their expiration dates passed, so that by the series finale a year later, the cast had swollen to the size of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.] Literally the only worthwhile episode in the entire sixth season is "Once More With Feeling," a musical that was far, far better than it had any right to be, especially coming so late in the series' decline. Anthony Stewart Head, in particular, has fantastic pipes, and he literally carries the episode from start to finish. The other cast members may not have the greatest voices, but they sing with gusto and courage. The song-and-dance numbers simultaneously parody and play homage to a variety of sources (from hard rock to classical Broadway musicals), while also delving into the characters' unspoken fears. Even the untalented Emma Caufield and Amber Benson prove surprisingly gifted songbirds, and the insipid plotlines--defying all logic--take on unexpected poignancy and meaning when set to music. Bottom line: save your money. Catch the musical in syndicated reruns, and invest in the DVD sets of first three seasons. After that, it's a greased slide straight down.
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Summary: Great Show- Disappointing DVD quality
Review: I waited so long for Fox to finally release season six in region one, only to find that, like many other collectors did, that the dvd set itself is laden with menu glitches and corrupted video/audio segments. I didn't have this problem with seasons 1-5, This is really sad because the series itself is (IMHO) one of the best written and acted TV shows ever and the show deserves better than some half-***ed profit margin first approach to it's preservation. It would have been great if FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT hadn't cheated all the Buffy fans to save a quick buck, but that's exactly what it looks like they did with the season six DVDs.In spite of this, I still recommend buying season six as well as all the other seasons, but be fairly warned to check all your discs episodes and special features as soon as you get it. (especially discs 2,4,and 5)
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Summary: an unforgetable season
Review: Season 6 of Buffy had to be the darkest season. The storylines were dealing with life, relationships,and how to go on. Episodes like "Tabula Rasa" was one of the episodes which explained, in the beginning, promises being broken and the consiquences. That episode had Willows and Taras relationship on the rocks. At the end of this episode we see Tara leaving Willow inspite of the memory spell. We also see Spike and Buffy kissing at the end of this episode, which leads there relationship in secret for awhile. Another episode ("Once More With Feeling") deals with people confessing secrets, at the end of this episode we finally hear about Buffys death and where she was. As the season went on everyone was growing, Buffy had found a job, it was almost time for Xanders and Anyas wedding. Also as the episodes went on we see the "nerd trio" devising plans to kill the slayer. At the end of this season Willow and Tara gets back together. In one later episode, Warren (Adam Busch), confrunts Buffy when he becomes powerfull. At the end of this episode, Warren confrunts Buffy in her back yard when he then shots Buffy, as he walks away shots are still going, one bullet had hit Willows bedroom window, Tara had gotten shot, she then died. That made Willow want revenge. She then became to powerfull that she wanted to destroy the world. One character talks to Willow about what she is about to do (with courage) and it stops Willow. Although people say this was one of the least favorite seasons, it shows all the characters maturing, and it also sets up for some storylines in season seven.
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Summary: DONT BUY THIS UNLESS........
Review: i bought the set the very first day it came out a found out that the second episode wont play. AFTER LIFE is messed up on the dvd. i even exchanged it hoping that i would fair better, but the second one is also messed up. so only purchase this piece of crap if you dont want to watch the entire season.
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Summary: Wonderful world of Buffy
Review: Buffy season 6 was one of the best and memorable seasons of the Buffyverse and not to have this DVD will leave a hole in the Buffy world. This DVD is a great product b/c at the end of every episode you keep thinking whats gonna happen next and u have to continue to watch! Season six has a lot of crucial moments including every charcter as one and as couplets so check it out and ENJOY!!!
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Summary: A departure... and I mean that in the best way
Review: Love it or hate it -- it seems like plenty of Buffy fans either agonized through the entire sixth season, or were more drawn in than ever. Put me in the latter category. The season was -- different. Buffy's back, but she's not the girl we knew. Willow's going all freaky. Xander -- well, Xander makes some questionable decisions in this season, and Anya is, um, herself. Anthony Stewart Head was coming & going, and so Giles was as well, and the Trio presented a different take on the "Big Bad" concept by not being very big, and being rather bad at being bad... until the end, that is. Rumor has it that even Sarah Michelle Geller wasn't entirely thrilled with her character this season, and it's true that things went in a Spike-y direction you never could have predicted a few seasons back. But I loved this season for precisely those reasons -- the change, the topsy-turvy turning everything on its head, characters going out of whack, reacting to events in ways you couldn't have predicted... but when you bring a girl back from the dead, you know, all bets are off. Mostly, I applaud Joss Whedon for being completely unafraid to take risks in season 6, to challenge everyone's perceptions and go down roads that some may of preferred he hadn't. No season of Buffy is dull or predictable, but after five years, it would have been all too easy to crank out another monster or god hell-bent on destroying the world, and then let us watch the Scoobies figure out how to get the job done. They do, of course, as always, when push comes to shove -- but not without a lot of missteps, misunderstandings, and casualties along the way. Joss Whedon chose to focus on the demons within rather than those without in this season, and the result, I believe, was nothing short of his usual brilliance.
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Summary: Another winner
Review: Great season despite the much complained-of dark bent to it. What's not to love about those sexy scenes with Spike? As always, so many small but memorable moments are cut from replays of the episodes after their first air date - it's great to see them all in their original form. Much anticipation here of the season 7 set which is allegedly to contain the opening montage from season 5 finale's "The Gift" (conspicuously absent from season 5's box set.)
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Summary: Buffy Season 6
Review: I'd like to think that I'm an expert on the subject of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer and it's spin-off show Angel: I've seen every episode of both series at least twice and I've invested a cool grand in Buffy and Angel related stuff. But when I first watched to sixth season of Buffy in re-runs on FX, I was shocked at how convoluted and surpisingly preachy and pretentious it was. Why make Willow a villian? Why have Buffy committ such sick acts with Spike? Why villianize Spike like they do? It really threw me for a loop the first time, and I could really only name one good episode in the season, Once More With Feeling, but I'll get to that later. However, when I watched to season again, the genius of it slowly seeped through into my head: they meant to make the viewer hate it, they meant to make you squirm in your chair when you watched Spike violate Buffy, and most of all they meant to make it distrubing. Season 6 is the culmination of 5 years of pent-up and previously unrealeased tensions, it shows the darker side of each character and their insecurities. Buffy can't understand why her friends would bring her back to life after she so selflessly sacraficed herself for them, Xander regressess back to his old high school self, Willow finally tastes the dark side, Giles realizes that for the first time in his life he's useless and Spike has to come to terms with his obsessive love for the Slayer. Despite each of their short comings each character makes a major leap foward forward, especially Spike, who, even more than Buffy, sacrafices himself. The stark contrast between the gritty, kind of noir-ish feel of season 5 and the just plain depressing feel of season 6 makes this a must have collection to anybody's DVD library. The stand out episode of the season and maybe even the series is teh brilliant and energetic musical episode Once More with Feeling. A musical, singing demon named Sweet is mysteriously summoned and the citizens of Sunnydale dance and sing their deepest secrets. This doesn't bode well for the Scoobies, who later realize what they have done. Whedon himself wrote the words for the songs and directed the episode.
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Summary: FABULOUS...run, don't walk to the store & buy this DVD set!
Review: A lot of people complained about Buffy season 6, and said it was too dark, however I disagree. While yes it was dark, it had to be, in order to be believable. Buffy had just come back to earth, to having to fight the good fight again, after having died, went to heaven, and been released from all of that in the season 5 finale, "The Gift". We go through the season watching Buffy adapt back to the real world, struggle with things that most 20-somethings struggle with such as bills, money, employment problems, loneliness, emptiness, sorrow, friends with problems, and a dead end relationship with someone whom she knows she shouldn't be with. Who hasn't been there? The season ends up with a twist when a beloved character is killed, thus turning Willow dark and evil, and out for blood, even if that blood is of her own best friend, Buffy. The nerd trio, while many despise them and I admit I did too at first, aren't too bad. In fact they provide a lot of light moments in this otherwise dark and serious season of episodes. Give them a chance, they might grow on you too! The end of the season brings Buffy back full circle. Again she is crawling out of a grave, just as she did in the first episode of the season, but this time, she is coming out into a world of beauty, light, and new discoveries, all waiting to be shared with her sister Dawn, rather than the fire, darkness, and misery she came into from the grave the first time. This full circle is a wonderful way to tie the season together and bring things to a close. The DVD's themselves are wonderful. The box is the same as the other seasons, folding out with 6 discs, each with a different character on each of the discs. Sound quality is superb and sounds wonderful on a surround sound stereo, and picture quality is the best of any of the DVD sets for Buffy I have seen to date. Sharp and clear with no grain. The menus are easy to navigate, while remaining attractive and in theme with the season. Inside of the season 6 set there are inserts in the side pocket that say the release for the final season, season 7 are due in stores on October of 2004. This is much faster than the other seasons have been released, and this isn't a bad thing at all in my opinion. When all is said and done, this is a must own for any avid Buffy fan, or anyone who loves DVD's of the shows they enjoy. RUN OUT AND GET THIS DVD SET...and do it soon. You won't be sorry you did!
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Summary: If you are new to buffy, beware of spoilers in reviews below
Review: Be advised that their are too many spoilers in these reviews below. I would think some people would be more sensitive and post spoiler warnings before giving away so many of the seasons biggest surprises.
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