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Summary: Just Keeps Getting Better
Review: I am a huge Buffy fan, and when I got this as a gift for Christmas, I couldn't wait to watch every episode! I told myself(and my parents told me too)that I wouldn't watch all the episodes too quickly, but within a week, I had seen them all more then once!
This is a great addition to the Buffy series, that every true fan should have!ANd it leads into the mysterious season 6...
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Summary: Growing Up!
Review: Season 5 of Buffy is an underrated and underappreciated and misunderstood season. It is the season where Buffy grows up and is no longer a teenager but a 20 year old woman and has to take on some adult responsibilities and I think that one of the themes for this season is that growing up and having to start taking on adult responsibilities can be scary! I also liked the addition of Dawn and I liked how the monks made everyone think she had always been there. I liked the mystery of who and what she was. I also think the whole bratty little sister thing is very realistic! I recommend this season, the DVD set is awesome and the only complaint I have is that sometimes the sound is a little low.Sometimes the music overshadows the dialogue but it only seems to happen in one or two episodes and the rest is fine!
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Summary: Can you say ... Awesome?
Review: The only word that I have to describe this Buffy season, is. . . .Awesome. This is definitely one of my favorite seasons. The comedy and drama are both much better then the first four seasons, and the first four were very funny and dramatic. One contribution to the funny would have to be the full time character of Anya. The DVD screens and menus are all very nice. I would recomend this dvd collection to anyone who likes buffy as much as I do.
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Summary: One of the best seasons for any show ever!
Review: Until I saw this season I thought it would get no better then Season 3 (my second favorite season). Ulike any of the early seasons, this one has no filler episodes. Every episode as a purpose, with outstanding writing. Season 5 is also the most serious and emotion season of them all. My only major gripe is the introduction of Dawn. I hate how she was brought into the show. Her character is fine, and brings out more of Buffy's personality, but the *poof* Dawn appears out of magic and EVERYONE remembers her as if she was with them since birth was lame. Thankfully to redeem itself for this misdeed Rylie is eventually taken out of the show (couldn't stand him).Episodes like "Buffy vs. Dracula", "The Replacement", "Out of My Mind", "Fool For Love", "The Body" (very, very, very sad episode, also one of the best), "Forever", "Spriral" (one of my alltime favorites), and "The Gift" make this the best season ever.
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Summary: Great Transition into different story lines
Review: This series keeps on getting better every season. We watch Buffy start college in the previous season, this season we watch as she gets more responsibility into becoming a grown up. The big baddie this season is interesting and adds to the comedy. We get to see more of the history of Spike. See more development in the Willow/Tara and Xander/Anya relationship, while we see the demise of Buffy's current love interest Riley. The first episode is one of their classics, where Buffy meets the "pop-star" vampire - Dracula! It is hilarious and give you a different view of Dracula. This is a must for a Buffy Collector. Buy it...you won't be disappointed.
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Summary: Difficult and Complicated Buffy Season
Review: Buffy's season 5 has a very complicated story line. For those of us that loved the show as it was, being season 2 the greatest of all, and with Angel as the best baddie of all, we suddenly get Dawn, Buffy's new love interest and her sister!.
Dawn comes to upset the confort zone in which we all were with Buffy season 1 to 4. In season 5 we get Glory, which is a very good but quite complicated baddie. And we also get little sister Dawn, a tipical teenager that you start by hating, and end up loving her. Moreover, we lose Buffy's mother to a horrible natural disease. I would say that Buffy season 5 is more than ever about emotions, and the writers play our emotions masterfully around the one topic of Dawn. The baddie Glory is not as important as all the emotions that we go through with Dawn. We begin hating her as an impostor and an intruder, then we grieve with her, Joice's loss, so that at the end we cannot but love her and protect her just as Buffy feels that she has to do. Other stories really develop well in this season. Willow relationship with Tara is strength beyond any misgivings when we suffer what Willow suffers for Tara. Xander relationship with Anya gets stronger. Giles actually kills Glory, letting us get a glimpse of Ripper's personality. And last but not least, we can share Spike's love for Buffy and not just idolatration as was in the case of Riley.
So, Buffy Season 5 is Complicated and Difficult. A rollercoaster of emotions masterfully played.
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Summary: Best Season of Buffy
Review: "The Body" and "The Gift" alone warrent purchase of this set. TV doesn't get any better than this. (except maybe Buffy season 3, sopranos season 2 and 3, the simpsons season 3-5, the x-files season 3 and 4, star trek:TNG season 3 and 4, E.R. season 1-4, and Seinfeld all seasons)
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Summary: Something Wicked This Way come...
Review: Buffy the Vampire Slayer audience. Got a very different taste for season five,
of our favorite heroine and her friends.
The season starts off with it's if not typical comedy mixed with magic,
chaos, and romps around the cemetery.
But all of this changes when the God Glory comes to town.
And starts to wreck Buffy's family and friends.
No one knew if Buffy would be able to stop her.
But that isn't even the begging of her problems this season.
When Joyce becomes ill Buffy finds herself having to play the slayer role
and being more of a mom to her 'sister' Dawn.
The Scoobies are of course all ways there to help her.
But nothing can prepare them for the episode 'The Body
and what happens after.
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Summary: "Death is your gift..."
Review: The fifth season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer was a transitional season of the series to say the least. Beginning with Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) battling Dracula (yes, you read that right) and introducing Buffy's sister Dawn (Michelle Trachtenberg) who appears out of nowhere and everyone knows her, but she's new to us. How is this possible you ask? Dawn is actually "the key"; a form of pure energy that can unlock the gates between dimensions that was made into a human form and sent to the Slayer for protection, while false memories of Dawn were implanted into the minds of Buffy, her mother (Kristine Sutherland), the Scoobies, and everyone else. Why? There's a very, very, VERY, evil force named Glory (Clare Kramer) who is after said key, but as the above Amazon review says, Glory's not a demon, she's something much, much worse: a god. This is where many of the show's fans began to lose interest in the show and felt that the introduction and story of Dawn was just too much. However, the fifth season of Buffy is pure brilliance from beginning to end, and Joss Whedon and his creative team deserve all the credit they can get for taking this gamble. Many pivotal events take place as well: including duplicate Xander's (Nicholas Brendon), Spike (James Marsters) declaring his love for Buffy, Riley (Marc Blucas) leaves after Buffy makes herself emotionally distant towards him, and the sudden death of Buffy's mother which is followed by one of the best episodes in the series called "The Body" in which we see Buffy and Dawn deal with the aftermath of they're mother's passing. Buffy's ultimate sacrifice in the season finale set the stage for quite a cliffhanger before the series left the WB and moved to UPN for two more seasons. All in all, the fifth season of Buffy contained some of the best moments of the series, and some of the best acting (Gellar, Trachtenberg, and Marsters are superb) to come along since the second season. However, the best Buffy was still on the horizon.
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Summary: VERY DISSAPOINTING SEASON OF BUFFY
Review: Now I am a huge Buffy fan but this season was VERY DISSAPOINTING. First of all Dawn's character should have been killed off. It was not enjoyable watching the show with her in it, but I didn't want to miss anything that would be in any later episodes or seasons, so I forced myself to watch it. I know Miss Trachtenberg really wanted to be on the show but I hope she knows she really ruined it. Even though Sarah is a good actress she couldn't pull off that she loved Dawn so much she would sacrifice herself instead of letting Dawn jump to her death at the end. Dawn has nothing to contribute to the world, she is worthless and useless and has a piss poor attitude. Nothing but grief with that child. The writers and Joss Whedon were so off with the story line. The Glory storyline and Willows incresing power was good. I liked that Joyce died of natural causes that made it even more powerful and sad. Everyone elses character was all good but there was too big a mistake with the whole Dawn thing to make this season a winner. Dawn's character should have just own up to the fact that she needed to be killed and should've done it herself, it would've been the only honorable thing she would have accomplished but she couldn't even bring herself to do that much because she was too selfish. And Buffy's character was so stupid to not accept that Dawn had to go, it irritated me that she told Giles and everyone else that no one's to hurt Dawn and once the ritual begins then everyone dies, I mean way to go with making sure your friends lives and Giles(who's her father figure)are going to be safe even though they stuck by her and helped her for years, which is a much longer period of time that Buffy really was in contact with Dawn. Choosing Dawn over everyone else, maybe Buffy does deserve to die. I never really had anything bad to say about Buffy the series until this season. SO IN ALL SEASON 5 WAS POOR.
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