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Summary: AMAZING! This is truly wonderful season
Review: This season more than proves how truly spectacular Buffy the Vampire Slayer is. Forget those people who said that it wasn't as good. The truth is that anyone who didn't like it just couldn't handle that it wasn't exactly the same as the 2nd or 3rd seasons. Well, season 6 isn't the same. It's better. The characters have grown and changed so much and it is a great accomplishment that Joss(the creator), Marti and co. were able to keep the characters engaging and interesting. Oh, yeah, and Once More With Feeling is the greatest hour of television that has ever been created. Hands down.
Rating: 
Summary: Must have
Review: While I think it's pretty obvious that season six of Buffy was not it's best season (an honor reserved for season two in my opinion), there are far too many good moments in six to call it "bad". There were of course some questionable creative decisions (magic crack comes to mind), and you either thought the nerds were funny or you hated them. Personally, I thought it was interesting to watch them go from being petty crooks and the comic relief, to becoming remorseless murderers who started a chain of events that ultimately almost destroyed the world. There were some not so good episodes, but that happened in every season (everyone's favorite seems to be season three - even that had some not so terrific episodes). Obviously, "Once More, With Feeling" is the best episode from the season (and one of the best ever), in my opinion there is much more to season six than just that. And while the execution in six wasn't perfect, and as someone else said Joss's absence from the majority of the season was pretty obvious, I should think if you call yourself a Buffy fan there's no way you can not buy season six. As with every season, this is a must have for any fan of the show.
Rating: 
Summary: Not the best one but still not that bad
Review: In Season 6, Buffy is brought back from the dead by Willow after sacrificing herself to save Dawn in the end of Season 5. She's not that happy that she was brought back though and her friends don't know that. Well not right away anyway. Spike surprisingly is the only person she found that she could talk to about it. After a Demom comes along that can make people sing and dance their feelings out, Buffy has no choice but to sing it out to her friends that she was actually in Heaven. She was happy there too. Now that she's back, she finds that she needs a job so she can keep the house and support her sister Dawn. The show just turns really silly but still entertaing when 3 nerds decide they want to try and take out Buffy. They make her invisible in 1 episode and they try a lot of other things as well. The leader of the nerds Warren gets more and more evil and more and more frustrated that he can't kill Buffy. He eventually snaps and while shooting Buffy he kills a member of Slayer gang in the process. This is when things turn darker and a lot more violent. The death of the friend makes Willow snap and use very dark magic so she can hunt Warren and the nerds down. Buffy surprisingly doesn't save the day but someone elsee does but I won't say who for those who didn't see this season. I just found that clever though. Just to throw in there, Buffy is pretty mean to Spike in this season "I know surprise surpise" but even more mean than usual. She has sex with him in a few episodes and plays with his feelings for her pretty much. I didn't think that was right but still was interesting to see them going from enemies to having sex behind a tree in front of Buffy's house lol. What makes her mean to him, is that she takes what she needs from him and tells him to take a hike pretty much. Anyway this season is different but still entertaining. It's just not the best one.
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Summary: Only reason to buy is the musical
Review: The only reason to buy this set is the musical, "Once More With Feeling." Joss consistently let us down during the season in the name of "realism". Why wouldn't Xander and Anya have gotten married? People with a lot of doubts and faults get married all the time. Then they get divorced later. That is real. Magic = drugs? What a preachy annoying concept that certainly was never mentioned before and not real in Buffyverse. The Slayer getting raped? How stupid is that? How about the only character who behaves like an adult but is also a lesbian getting killed? I don't know if it's UPN's fault or Joss Whedon's, but season six was terrible. I kept watching thinking it couldn't get worse, but it did!
Rating:
Summary: It's kinda slow, but, not as bad as the nay-sayers believe
Review: The season is without a doubt the slowest moving one of the series. I mildly agree about the Buffy/Spike thing, but, your left with Spike, Xander, Giles or one of the Tio...who do thing they were going to pick for her to shack up with? (Good guess...the one with the best body) Tabula Rasa is one of the best of the season...the funniest episode of the group. The scene where they open the door and give a scream in unison is worth it all alone. OMWF is a great episode simply because the cast had the guts to sing their own songs...and they did a damn good job. The Darth Willow arc is awesome and that alone is worth the price of the DVD. The only reason I gave this 4 stars is the disappointing fact that Ms. Gellar and Mr. Marsters let let themselves be talked into doing the rape scene, being led to believe it was a vital part of the story. I would like to close this by asking the reviewer that stated(..."The show had morphed into a stupid sci-fi show that had little in common with the world we live in.")? What city do you live in where the first five seasons of "BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER" is common with the world we live in? I would love to visit one day and check out the local demon bar, maybe take a stroll through the vampire infested warehouses or sit in one of the bloody cult sacrifices. It might be an interesting vacation.
Rating:
Summary: A fabulous season.
Review: I never really got into BTVS, until season 6. I feel that it was top of the line as seasons go. It took a very adult turn and dealt with some of those emotions. Once more with feeling was quite possibly one of the most remarkable episodes of all time. Also I felt the episode dealing with the near rape of Buffy (no matter how dark) had a purpose. I thought it demonstrated the perils any woman can face. It dispells the "can't happen to me" mentality because it could happen to her, and she is one of the strongest women out there, in the buffy universe.
I think that all the seasons are great. However if it wasn't for 6 I never would have watched any other seasons at all. I am not trying to keep the legacy of a great show alive by trying to fudge the greatness of the season, it really was that good. I wish the show hadn't ended when it did, but I am very glad for the DVD's. I can't wait till the have the whole BTVS collection. So I suggest, buy it.
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Summary: Musical episode is pure genius!
Review: This season is worth getting just for the musical episode alone. The writing, directing, and singing (by the cast no less) are all great. Once More, With Feeling is one of the best episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer ever made. It is on par with such great episodes as Surprise, Innocence, Becoming pts 1 & 2, Graduation Day pts 1 & 2, Hush, The Body, The Gift, and the series finale, Chosen. The rest of the season is still very good, despite being labelled as weak. I personally thought season 4 was the weakest season of Buffy, but that season still had many redeeming qualities. The same holds true for the sixth season of the show. Season six did mark the move to UPN, and therefore, the style changed somewhat. However, the quality is still way above most television shows out there. This is a definite must own, especially if you already have the first five seasons.
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Summary: Where do we go from here?
Review: Truth be told, Buffy's sixth season is its weakest. Aside from the amateurish symptoms that slightly bogged down the impeccable first season, six is the only year that substantially weakened the show's devout mythology by wading in it instead of expanding it. Admittedly, the self-referential qualities of Buffy have always been part of it's charm; the problem here, though, is that self-referencing is somehow supposed to pass off as plot. Examine: Jonathan (the powerless bystander who hitherto had been more or less orbiting the world of Buffy and was the source for two of the most inspired episodes of seasons 3 and 4) teams up with Warren (the borderline-creepy recluse who builds robots to fornicate with) and Andrew (who's sole claim to existence in the Buffyverse is that his brother, Tucker, tried to ruin prom with a pack of hell-hounds) to become evil masterminds and take over Sunnydale.
While in theory this sounds like an entertaining angle to toy with, the whole Nerds of Doom routine gets old. Fast. It doesn't help that all three characters are decidedly set on their moral paths that would no doubt come to a head at the end of the season: Jonathan: good but misguided, Warren: Evil. And in the case of Andrew, season seven's star player, he was given exactly one joke to play (is he gay?) the whole year.
Understandably, Andrew's character didn't grow in depth until both his friends were dead and he finally had to start thinking for himself: A valid character development but one that wouldn't pan out until next season.
As for the Scoobies, this wasn't a banner year for them as well. Buffy's main arc the whole season (instead of rescuing her from hell, her friends had yanked her from heaven) was inspired and, up through Once More with Feeling was treated with delicacy. Afterwards, the impressionable Slayer began a torrid affair with Spike, became invisible, went crazy, worked at a fast food restaurant, et al. until she finally had an epiphany when, coming full circle, she climbed out of a grave this time to see green fields and flowers instead of motor bike demons.
Willow's arc was possibly the most irksome of the bunch. Anticipated a year ago, in season five, the "addicted to magic" storyline was way too blatant and ultimately led to a finale that no-one hadn't predicted. With rumors running rampant the whole year that a Scooby was going to bite it, Tara was the obvious choice to go since Amber Benson seemed to be the most loosely affiliated member of the cast and since common knowledge led you to the realization that Tara dead = Willow mad.
Giles' decision to leave, also anticipated in season five, was (before the season had even begun) public knowledge and, thus, taken with a grain of salt. Giles had been the cornerstone of the show for some years now and without him, suffice to say, the show suffered.
Spike, reeling from the Slayer's death, continued on his path as accidental hero and ultimately served as Buffy's connection in the world. His much maligned attempted rape of Buffy sent him on his sojourn to Africa which, as we all know, restored his sole and instigated the final season of the show.
Meanwhile, Xander, Dawn and Anya were treated as merely peripheral to the plot with a few crumbs tossed their way once and a while.
No one in season six changed. That may be my biggest qualm with the season. Everyone was stuck in a funk the whole year and the show's tone got noticeably monotonous. The actors looked like they were sleepwalking through most of the season, the scripts lacked the wit and heart that Buffy was known for and the production just seemed sloppy. It wasn't until season seven that we felt the ramifications of everyone's actions in season six and because of that, most of the year is merely exposition for the final chapter.
I don't hate season six. For the aforementioned missteps I would undoubtedly call this the show's weakest year. Paradoxically, though, I don't think anyone could deny Once More with Feeling the accolades it so deserves. Everything in the episode works. For one time that year everything and everyone was working in perfect synergy to create an undeniably brilliant work of art that confirmed Joss Whedon as one of the most giddily self-assured auteurs working in any medium over the last decade. Did the best episode of the series stem from the weakest season? You decide.
With Angel simultaneously churning out of the Buffy-verses best season's ever and the brilliance of season seven that was to come, it's not entirely an insult to say that the year was lacking. With such high standards, it probably isn't an insult at all.
Rating:
Summary: For what it's worth, my favourite season...
Review: I steadfastly resisted "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" for the first 5 seasons. Despite lavish praise from friends with good taste, I just couldn't get past my conviction that it sounded really stupid. A casual "there's nothing else on" viewing changed my mind. So I'd seen the whole backstory of BTVS for the first time in the months leading up to Season 6, and I was enormously impressed with the consistency and structure of the writing throughout the arc of the series. Season 6 seemed inevitable to me--everybody's chickens did, indeed, come home to roost, as has been observed by others here. Buffy and Spike made perfect sense, as did Xander's meltdown and Willow's addiction. I don't mean to say that the season was without surprises, just that the surprises were satisfying ones that advanced the characters' personal journeys. The final episodes of the season rank as the very best of the series for me, full of beatifully-realized, honest moments for the entire cast. Finally, I'll add my voice to the chorus of praise for the musical episode, which was both a real hoot and THE pivotal moment in the season's plot.
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Summary: Buffy: MY HERO!
Review: Buffy is super! This season is a FABULOUS season! Tara is killed, Willow turns into Dark Witch Willow, and it also has the Musical! This is overall the best season, along with season 7. Buy this season now! It'll be the best thing to spend your money on in the whole world. BUY IT!!!
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