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Summary: Buffy should have ended w/ Season 5
Review: I am a big BTVS fan & own the first 5 seasons on DVD. However, I cannot bring myself to purchase this (the 2nd worst)or the last season (the worst). BTVS lost its its soul in the 6th season. The finale to season 5 was so good, and so heart felt, that it was an absolute travesty that the show continued with 2 lack lusters seasons. They should have ended the series and let Buffy die nobely in saving her sister (the key) & the world from utter destruction. But instead, chose to resurrect Buffy & drag the show out a couple of more seasons in order to milk it for more money. It seems like the writers ran out of ideas starting with this season. The only highlight in this lackluster season is the musical episode. Other than that it was just one disappointing episode after another. How many times can we see the geek trio go up against Buffy & the gang & fail? As if they even have a chance! Its absolutely pointless! To even consider such a notion is ludicrous. Then, as if the writers realized that they needed to actually do something with the season, went overboard by having Willow go to the darkside because of Terra's death. She tries to kill all of her friends. Then, she literally rips one of the geek trio's skin right off his body & then tries to finish some ancient satanic ritual that was to destroy the world. Only by Over dosing on extra magic that Giles brings back from some witches coucil can possibly bring her back, but a catalist is needed. Zander's friendship touches her last piece of humanity and finally drains enough of her powers so that she finally gets a grip on things & breaks down & weeps all over Zander. Boo hoo!!! I don't know who was crying worse, the character or me for such a terrible season. PARENTS BEWARE!!! While the previous 5 seasons may have crossed over the line here & there as far as gruesomeness or satanic references go, THIS season blatantly leaps across it. It is NOT for younger viewers, & even as an adult, I had some queeziness about the last couple of episodes. BTVS peaked with season 5. It was all down hill after that.
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Summary: Whatever
Review: Season six Buffy really irritated me. Buffy was such a raging hell beast all season! I swear everyone just got on my nerves that season. Dawn did nothing but whine and generally be a brat, but then that might have been prevented if stupid Buffy hadn't neglected her all the time. And why the heck couldn't Willow get a job? She just mooched off of Buffy and acted like a crackhead, while Buffy had to work at that awful fast food establishment and slay at the same time! Bad Junkie Willow! Then of course there were the Buffy/Spike sexathons. You would think getting laid regularly would make Buffy less of a beotch, but no such luck. Poor Buffy can't have sex without feeling guilty about it afterwards. "I can't love Spike because he's evil and soulless, but let me screw him into the ground and then beat him to a bloody pulp because my friends ripped me out of heaven and I just want to feel. Oh woe is me!" Whatever! Then there's Xander who leaves his bride at the alter and then actually has the audacity to get mad when she gets it on with someone else. He completely humiliated her on what was supposed to be her happy day and then he thinks he has the right to criticize her behavior! What a jerk! Seeing Red! WTF? Spike goes pyscho and attacks Buffy and she all of a sudden turns into the weak female? She could have smacked him across the entire house and back and yet she just pleads with him to stop? I don't get that. Yeah she was hurt or whatever, but still. It's a fact that she was physically stronger than him. Troll hammer and all. She kicked him off finally, but why didn't she do that at the start instead of playing the victim? That was horrible. That whole scene was disgusting. And why Tara? She was actually one of the less annoying charcters! Couldn't they have offed Dawn instead? And there's Giles leaving! I get that he wanted Buffy to stand on her own and all. But the girl wasn't even capable of acting like a human at that point. How the hell could he think she would act like a responsible adult? I could go on and on, but I think I should just stop this rant now.
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Summary: Mediocre At Best
Review: Despite a strong conclusion and phenomenol musical episode I felt a bit cheated by how the characters and their storylines bent so drastically in so little time from what they had been earlier. After five strong years, the shows age was beginning to show and it never recovered since, but still if you love the show I suppose you'll pick this set up. For first time viewers, do yourself a favor and get an earlier season (3 is their best).
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Summary: A Shaft of Darkness
Review: Buffy the Vampire Slayer - The Complete Sixth Season is mostly about growing up, and what it would be like if our characters grew in different directions. It was probably one of the most remarkable moments in television history. There was a lot of confusion in which some people had their differences about their thoughts on the sixth season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. When Buffy had died last season, her friends feared she was trapped in a hell-dimension, and needed to be ressurected. But as they later learn, Buffy tells Spike that she was in fact in Heaven, not in Hell. Spike was the only one who knew about this, because Buffy still has feelings for the vampire with a soul. Then, we later discover that a music-making demon called Sweet (Hinton Battle) that has been summoned to Sunnydale and makes the whole town burst into song (and not to mention flame!) This was probably notably the only episode with a shaft of lightness throughout the whole season. Well, there was "Tabula Rasa," which followed the episode after the highly critically acclaimed musical episode "Once More, With Feeling." "Tabula Rasa" was about Tara having to plea over the fact that Willow was using too much magick and needed to make a pact that if she were to use or do one more speel, then their relationship would have to end. But Willow went ahead and made a spell to make them forget that Buffy was ever in Heaven, but when it goes wrong, it instead makes them forget who they are. This season also marks the death of Tara, in which Willow goes all evil on the gang and decides to destroy the world since Warren made a terrible mistake in killing her girlfriend, not to mention shooting Buffy at the same time. Willow is set out to conquer the world, only to be stopped by Xander's love and setting the evil witch the lies within Willow. It was a tough season, but still has some great episodes worth watching over and over. Most notably, "Once More, With Feeling," is a must. Can't wait for season seven.
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Summary: Buffy returns from the dead.......again.
Review: This sixth and next to final season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer is much more darker yet much more campy than it's previously powerful seasons. Buffy is raised from the dead, torn from heaven by the very friends she died to protect. Buffy spends the better part of this season coming to grips with that fact and revealing her feelings in a humorous musical episode. Willow and Tara separate and deal with Willow's growing power and obsession with magicks and the consequences. Tara dies from a bullet meant for the Slayer and Willow becomes the big bad of the season. Jonathon, Warren, and Andrew, three incredibly annoying geeks from high school surface and attempt to get rid of Buffy. Ironically enough Warren gets flayed by Willow and Xander saves the world. Excluding the Three Geeks this season was most impressive and paves the way for the explosive seventh season and series finale. I can only hope that it doesn't take long for that one to come out. A must for all owners of seasons 1-5. Enjoy.
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Summary: Once More, With Feeling makes this worthwhile
Review: "Once More, With Feeling," the musical episode, is my personal favorite episode of any television series, ever! In fact, it is the single best hour of scripted television in the history of the medium (again, my opinion.) Just having this episode on the DVD makes it a must-have for any Buffy fan. The only negative thing I have to say about the Buffy series, as well as Angel, is that there are many inside jokes and self-references that are all but impossible to understand if you are not familiar with the entire run of both series. Since I am, I usually catch them, but to the unititiated, it may seem that there is too much prerequisite knowledge you must have before watching the shows. I know, that's a pretty weak negative, but I can't write a completely gushing review, can I?What makes both of these shows (Buffy and Angel) special is that the characters are people you literally grow to love. My wife and I both still get a little weepy when we see older episodes that feature the character who dies at the end of season six. In fact, even when we see the person who plays that character, we start to choke up. As I write this, there is only one more Angel episode left, ever, and after that, there will be no more quality television left to watch, thereby freeing me from my slavery to the tube.
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Summary: A dark and thrilling year
Review: This was a great season of Buffy, and the dvd extra's sound like more than enough, we even get a panel discussion with the stars and more of the outtakes I love. If you can't decide whether to buy this season of Buffy, here's why I love it. You have the steamy, hot and somewhat disturbing romance between Buffy and Spike, two of the hottest people in the world. You get to watch addiction take ahold of Willow and witness her becoming one of the worst evils the gang has had to deal with yet, with the most power! Now come on, I saw this coming a mile away. She was getting more powerful than Buffy, you knew something would happen! Plus it has the musical episode, one of my personal favorites. The dark atmosphere and Buffy's depression are countered by 3 little boys who just won't grow up, kind of comic relief. It's a great and somewhat haunting year, started off with a scary resurrection but ended on a high note and a bit of a cliffhanger.
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Summary: Life's a Show on "BTVS"...or Once More, With Tension
Review: Season Six of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" will not go down as the most celebrated in the series run. But it has already earned a well-deserved reputation as the most darkly adult of them all. A couple of episodes were of truly standout quality, including the Diego Gutierrez-penned psychological set piece "Normal Again" and the oft-praised, Emmy-robbed Joss Whedon musical extravaganza "Once More, With Feeling," which will have you under its spell. There were even a couple of quirky surprise episodes where Buffy lived up to its earlier comedic form, most notably in the episodes "Life Serial" and "Tabula Rasa." The season started in a difficult place--Buffy's resurrection by her well-meaning friends pulled her out of heaven into the "hell" of Earth--and things never really got better, as the characters began a season-long slide into miasma. Long-time viewers of the show will be able to understand fully the heart-rending moments such as Giles' departure (twice), Xander's continuing troubles with Anya, and the shocking death of a major character in the season's nineteenth episode, "Seeing Red." But enough background material is presented in context that even newer viewers will be able to fathom the significance inherent in these moments. (I should know...this season was my first introduction to the Buffyverse.) They can also grimace as the show's characters, clearly coming apart at the seams, begin to act entirely abnormally...as two healthy relationships grind to a shuddering halt, a third--clearly unhealthy for both participants, though desired by both--explodes on the screen with violent and graphic power, finally culiminating in a shocking attempted rape. With its themes of growing into adulthood, the denial of reality, the dangers of addiction, and learning to let go of what was, "Buffy" Season Six attempted more than any season of the show to that date. If it occasionally sputtered and faltered along the way, I think the fault can be laid at the door of overambition--not due to the fact that the cast and crew were "goin' through the motions." And for every uneven development, there are some truly excellent ones--the delicious creepy ambience that turns blood-curdlingly real in "Dead Things," Buffy's stunning revelation at the close of "AfterLife," and the final climax in "Grave" (which strains credulity but which manages to affect nonetheless) are all examples of the season's most memorable moments. Two major characters die. Two old friends return. And there's a snazzy demon named Sweet who loves jazz. If you're a longtime fan, or just curious about the '90s cult phenomenon that was "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," you owe it to yourself to pick up this set. You'll love it. I've got a feeling...
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Summary: WHAT can I say?!
Review: I don't know if I could have a favorite season of this show, because I think it all completely works together and one big whole amazing masterpiece. This is my favorite show my far, and I think season 6 is really interesting as Willow is 'poisoned' by dark magick, as she becomes the villian of the season which is totally unexpectant and interesting as hell since shes sweet innocent Willow gone all wrong. I think that 'Once More With Feeling' was such a great episode because it was so different and it had so much meaning and WHO could deny Anthony Stewart Head's voice! Joss Whedon is a genius! It's depressing that the Series is over.. why couldn't it have been 10 seasons as opposed to just 7?? :P
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Summary: Great season, great series
Review: Yeah some people complain that season 6 was too sexual or too dark boo hoo get over it. The scooby gang continued to grow up from the kids we all loved in high school and college. Willow's powerful magical addiction storyline, Buffy's dealing with being re-born, Spike dealing with his love/lust for Buffy....and everyone sings! Fantastic season well worth the money. My only gripe would be I would love more cast interviews in the Buffy dvd sets as well.
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