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Summary: An Excellent Comeback
Review: I'm one of the people who found the fourth season lacking, and because of that really didn't expect much from this season. I was proved wonderfully wrong.There's a lot of stand-alone episodes in this season that are incredible, most notably "The Body" but what made this season one of my favorites is the over-reaching arc and villian, Glory, the return to the deep friendship between Willow, Xander, Buffy and Giles, and, I can admit it, the departure of Riley and the beginning of the Spike/Buffy relationship. I'm not speaking about the 6th season continuation, which I wasn't a fan of, but, in THIS season, it was both funny and touching to watch them interact. Of course, then there's Dawn. But nothing's perfect. :) Overall I think season five was the last *great* season Buffy ever had.
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Summary: First of the greatest Buffy seasons
Review: As someone who couldn't stand the first three seasons of Buffy, I was amazed at how I got hooked onto the fifth season. The writers are at their best and the actors as well. But the best thing about this season was the start of one of t.v.'s greatest epic love stories: Buffy and Spike. No other couple on BTVS have the passion and chemistry that Gellar and Marsters have everytime they are on screen together. Some of the best episodes are Family,Fool for Love, Crush, The Body, and The Gift. Fifth season is the first of the best Buffy seasons followed by the sixth and seventh seasons.
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Summary: read this
Review: i think i am the only person in the world who loved buffy the vampire slayer movie thus leading to my liking of the series. i became hooked when i saw the pilot for the 1st time, but towards the end of the 3rd season i would sporadically watch the show. ( fyi i downloaded the original pilot, the biggest change was willow, she wasn't originally played by alyson hannigan thank god somebody switched the actors the 1st willow sucked) season 4 i saw the majority of the eps. but with season 5 i completly lost interest. i know people say get over dawn being introduced, but seriously she brought the show down. her addition was just blah. there are some key points in this season...once more with feeling...awesome episode and obviously the season finale was a tear jerker. i suggest getting this if you are a true buffy fan b/c you need all the seasons. i have all of the season thus far and will be getting this one for xmass. if you have no idea what buffy the vampire the slayer is then you should start with season one and go chronologically it wont make any sense otherwise...but yes i was disappointed with the addition of dawn, but whatever it's still my favorite show.
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Summary: Another amazingly great season
Review: I know some people don't like Season Five, but I really think it is excellent. No weak episodes in the entire season. Great ending. Phenomenal plot device in introducing Dawn. And I love Glory. I especially liked the way that Spike because a bigger part of the story.
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Summary: Rebutal to a ridiculous review of Season Five.
Review: The scene in which Buffy walks into her bedroom to find a strange young girl (Dawn) inside and what transpired within the next few seconds as that episode ended, brilliantly began a season of one of the most entertaining television/DVD's I've ever seen. The main storyline, complete with all of it's twists and turns, shocking scenes and developements and utterly unexpected fate of many of the shows main charcters, is unforgettable. There are more priceless moments in that one season alone than one could find in the entire running of most highly rated shows. Clare Kramer as Glory was an absolute riot. She owned that role. The casting for Buffy The Vampire Slayer has always been exmplorary. Even so, it had to be difficult to find an actress to successfully combine and simultaneously display all of the characteristics of Glory. An extremely powerful, vicious, evil, megalomaniacal, narccissistic, utterly insane, wickedly intelligent/dumb blonde. Not only did Kramer pull it off, she did it so brilliantly that every single scene with Glory was a treat. Glory became one of the most popular villains in the show. But as usual with a role like that some people were unable to grasp the complexity of the role, among them, one Mark Englhart, a critic for Amazon.com"s DVD's (please, find someone else). Clare Kramer's performance apparently went right over his head as did the season itself. How he made such a bad call is anyones guess...maybe he tried to get a date with Ms. Kramer and she turned him down. Maybe he had the flu when he saw the DVD and just wasn't feeling well, who knows. The only sure thing is that the fans have spoken. They loved her and we're the people who the show was created for in the first place.
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Summary: I CAN'T WAIT!
Review: I have all seasons on VHS and this is one of my faveorite seasons! I luv it how this is where Spike is falling madly in luv with Buffy! Its so funny and sad! I luv the episode "Crush" but its sad for Spike at the end! Spike gets beat up alot by Buffy in this season....becuz he luvs her and she cant accept it!:P! I luv the spuffy relationship! especially in the 6th season!:)! This is where Buffy is fighting the passion that she has for him! and so she beats him up ALOT!:P! I luv this season and i hope u do too! rock on spuffy fans!!! lol!
P.S.
ALSO TONS OF SPECIAL FEATURES AND STUFF!!!
Rating: 
Summary: Not Her Best, Nor Her Worst
Review: Buffy season 5 was a nice return to the bad supernatural element (for those of us left feeling really empty after the lameness that was season 4) but also left a lot of feelings in the Buffy-verse just floating around. This was Buffy's last season on the WB, which is part of the reason why this season is one of the more melodramatic of the 7. Nearly every episode had some tumultuously important emotional thing happen to Buffy (be it her new "sister" Dawn, the death of her mother, or at the end, Buffy's own "death" (yes, she dies again)) but really all that seems to happen with this season is the introduction of Dawn, and the removal of Joyce Summers from the equation that is Buffy's life. Glory makes a kick-ass villain, Spike once again saves the entire show (anyone else notice how boring Angel would be this year without Spike?), and Buffy sort of mopes throughout her life in a non-sensical manner trying to do what's right in her own eyes. It's a very transitional season in which the characters mature more than probably any other season and seem as though they are ready for anything, including the end of the series. Which is why I was sort of disappointed with the outcome of Season 5. The show was prepared for its own demise, and when that didn't happen because UPN picked it up, it seemed like they weren't really sure what to do with it. All in all, Season 5 has some great fights, some great maturing, and some great moments. I'd say behind season's 2, 3, and 7, this was Buffy's best season (making it 4th place out of the 7). If you're a Buffy fan this review was pointless to you because you're going to buy the DVD anyway based on what you feel about the show. If you're a new Buffy fan, start from the beginning or else season 5 is just going to be a big confusing mess. Whatever you do, add this DVD to your collection, because the changes brought by Season 5 are needed by all serious Buffy fans.
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Summary: A world new world Dawns for Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Review: I always think of the second season as being the best year of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," mainly because the grand two-part finale of "Becoming" was the operatic high point of the series. How could Joss Whedon ever top the moment when Buffy kissed Angel, told him that she loved him, and then killed him? The short answer is that it could not be done, but no one can accuse Joss of not trying. Besides, one thing we have consistently seen each season since the second is that if the top is not as high, the bottom and average scores are on the rise. Having dealt with the Master, Angelus and Acaltha, Faith Mayor Wilkins, and Adams and the Intiative, the ante gets upped beyond vampires and demons to the level of a god for the season's final battle. After the abbreviated first season Whedon always comes up with a first half story arc that combines with the second half story arc for the big finish, but this year Glory shows up in episode five. However, Joss remains true to the formula because the Fifth Season comes down to Dawn and Glory, and even with the appearance of a deranged deity from another dimension, it is the sudden appearance of Buffy's kid sister that defines the season. Dawn pops up at the end of the season premier episode, "Dracula," the first really comic opening for a Buffy season, and we do not find out about the "Key" until the fifth episode, "No Place Like Home." But then we do not find out that Glory is a god until Quentin Travers drops that little bombshell at the end of "Checkpoint." If anything, I would have liked Joss to have played out the mystery a bit longer, but it was fun to have Buffy and everyone just accept Dawn and the idea that she had always been there. Plus, throwing a bratty kid sister into the Buffy mix is a nice way of shaking things up. Then again, Joss had a way of topping that with regards to Joyce Summers. There are a few choice examples of significant character evolutions in the history of television programming, and with "BtVS" we can add Spike's name to the honor role that includes Margaret Houlihan and Charles Emerson Winchester from "M*A*S*H," and Lou Grant going from a supporting character on a classic sitcom to the lead of a dramatic program. The chip the Initiative put in Spike's head in Season Four was only the start of the fun, because now Spike has been having dreams about the Slayer. William the Bloody with a crush in his head. The end result is that in "The Gift" so many of the memorable moments involve Spike: Willow tells him to go and he goes, the look on his face when he realizes he has failed Dawn, and the fact that he is the one who totally breaks down sobbing at the end. Throw into the mix Spike's refusal to tell Glory about the Key and his reward from Buffy. The Fifth Season is not without its flaws. Glory is given a convenient Achilles heel regarding Ben and manages to avoid a sustained all-out assault until the final trio of episodes. In terms of character transformations we also have Xander renouncing his role as the show's "butt monkey" and Anya becoming the show's comic relief. I appreciate the desire to do the former but the latter gets played out way too often over the rest of the series. Compare the Anya that was turned human in Season Three with what we have at this point; did she really learn nothing during 4,000 years as a vengeance demon? After all, she was human once, and in a bad marriage: did she forget all that? I reached my Anya saturation point during this season, where I started wincing a lot at her comments (but Whedon does use this for a great moment in "The Body"). Of course, if we are talking changes in characters then we have to applaud the Willow that takes over at the low point of the season when Buffy retreats into her self in "The Weight of the World." In retrospect it is rather astounding to look at how many changes the gang goes through in the Fifth Season. From where they started, seldom have characters come this far; and there are still two seasons to go. In terms of DVD extras all you need to know is that Joss Whedon does audio commentary for "The Body." You already know he should have had an Emmy nomination for writing that one, but he should have been nominated for director too: pay attention to the way he uses the camera to capture Buffy's disorientation and provide one of the best portrayals of grief in television history.
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Summary: The Best Season
Review: Admitedly I've only seen scattered episodes of it and not entirely in sequence but in my oppinion this was the best Buffy season of the four on WB(unable to judge 6 and 7 since I've seen only two or three episodes out of both of them). The only part I disliked was the first episode. I have long been a fan of the vampire Dracula and was really looking forward to his appearance. With the way they played it up I expected a very interesting episode playing off his nature and her own. Instead I got a good moment or two completely sorrounded by hokey garbage(although I'll grant you the last scene with the multiple stakings made me laugh).
The part that made this series really shine though is Glory. Of all Buffy's foes she is perhaps the most disturbing. Why? Because unlike any of the others Glory's truly insane and just doesn't care. Angelus was extremely evil and depraved but his methods were well thought out. He behaves with specific goals. Glory is plain deranged. She is eiher unaware her plan will utterly destroy the dimensional barriers are far more likely she simply doesn't care. Yet despite this she has a humorous almost flippant side. Its dark comedy in a sense only one other season big bad has really had(The Mayor).
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Summary: AWESOME
Review: Completely awesome season...every episode is GREAT...the last episode is one of the best hours of TV I have ever seen...
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