Season 6 review.

[SOMNAMBULIST 2.0]

You can't deduct points from the season because of Tara's death, or Willow's "junkie" problem. That's what makes the season great. When the creators pull something like killing off a main character and putting characters through this stuff, it makes it shocking and it should make it more exciting that they aren't afraid to do the unexpected and break our hearts. If you can watch a show and get your heart broken by it, then it is a great show and should be rated 10/10

[Tea - Total]

Oct 30, 2010 11:45:44 GMT -5 SOMNAMBULIST 2.0 said:

You can't deduct points from the season because of Tara's death, or Willow's "junkie" problem. That's what makes the season great. When the creators pull something like killing off a main character and putting characters through this stuff, it makes it shocking and it should make it more exciting that they aren't afraid to do the unexpected and break our hearts. If you can watch a show and get your heart broken by it, then it is a great show and should be rated 10/10

I totally agree. Killing of Tara maybe sad for others, but for me it was excellent piece of storyline and even character development. I think Tara death was necessarily purposely done for willow development because if Tara was still alive we wouldn't see Willow true potential and her abilities of magic. It was tragic that willow witness her true lover getting shoot, by a man made cause and that made it more shocking because Willow was trying to get her back. And she actually used her emotion and actually screamed at Osiris. That scene gived me goosebumps.

[SOMNAMBULIST 2.0]

I think I get what you're saying, but it's hard to understand.

How old are you?

[Scarygothgirl]

Yeah, like with Hells Bells. I like it because it's an excellent episode. But I would love to see Xander and Anya get married, it breaks my heart to watch it every time. But it's still a good episode. I think it's also good because if it wasn't written and acted well it wouldn't be able to break my heart every time I watch it.

[Tea - Total]

Oct 30, 2010 12:05:28 GMT -5 SOMNAMBULIST 2.0 said:

I think I get what you're saying, but it's hard to understand.

How old are you?

17 why?, i thought i did a good paragraph? It wasn't that hard to understand.

[SOMNAMBULIST 2.0]

The number of grammatical errors made it hard to understand. I don't agree that Tara's death was the only thing that would bring out Willow's magical abilities. She could have shown them anyways, because she was BEFORE Tara's death. Tara's death just set her over the edge and brought all of the power up in a rush.

And I asked how old you were, because it didn't seem like you were 17.

[Tea - Total]

Oct 30, 2010 12:14:19 GMT -5 SOMNAMBULIST 2.0 said:

The number of grammatical errors made it hard to understand. I don't agree that Tara's death was the only thing that would bring out Willow's magical abilities. She could have shown them anyways, because she was BEFORE Tara's death. Tara's death just set her over the edge and brought all of the power up in a rush.

And I asked how old you were, because it didn't seem like you were 17.

I think the only reason their produce Willow into a junkie for because their need to show the audience how willow is coming more powerful every day.
But Willow stopped, for the shake of their relationship (cold turkey). I think Tara death was necessary, to show willow true nature of power. It succeed she become the most powerful being in the buffyverse, a couple of episode and she nearly destroyed the world.

I am sorry if am not 17, i am not good at English

[Randi Giles]

Season 6 is at the top of my list as being one of my favorite seasons in Buffy. I know many people don't like it because of how dark it was, but that's one of the reasons I love it. It wouldn't have been right for Buffy to come back from the dead and immediately going back to normal. Not to mention I think Willow had her best arc during this season that didn't always involve a significant other. The only real complaint I had about this season is that Xander and Anya didn't get married. The both of them pretty much sat on the sidelines the entire season seemingly happy until Hell Bell's came along and suddenly because of some random demon from Anya's past he see's that their future may not be picture perfect. There at least should have been more of a build up to that I thought. I won't be it too hard on it since it did lead to becoming a Vengeance demon again, yet they really didn't do much with that either.

Even though it's my favorite season I give it 9/10 overall.

[jtmaster13]

Feb 27, 2010 1:07:56 GMT -5 El Diablo Robotico said:

I'll give S6 credit for a couple of things: 1) the arc made consistent sense from beginning to end, and the writers seemed to not only know where they were going, but also how they wanted to get there; and 2) the focus remained firmly on the characters throughout. You can't say the same about S7, unfortunately, so give 6 props for that.

But still, I rank it near the bottom on my list, ahead of only 1 and 7. It just wasn't necessary to make every single character as miserable as possible all at the same time. It would've been nice if they could've at least had one happy thing happen during the year, like Xander & Anya get married.

The Willow storyline also comes off as very contrived. Suddenly, after 5 years, it's, "Oh, by the way, magic is very addictive and self-destructive." And don't even get me started on the warlock dope-dealers who you can go to who'll do 'spells' on you that work just like crack. If the show had ended after 5 seasons, what would you have thought of a fanfic that introduced these ideas, completely out of nowhere, with no previous grounding in canon? Like I said: it's too contrived.

And is it a great season if it makes me hate 2 of the 3 main characters? Because Xander and Willow did things that made me not able to stand them for large portions of the year. Willow's good enough in the other 6 years to make up for it, and keep me as a fan of hers, but in Xander's case, it's just too much, and the dislike of him became permanent (see my Xander thread).

So on a scale of 1 to 10? Meh, 6.5 or 7. There's a lot of great stuff mixed in there that still makes it really fun to watch, but the huge number of sad and depressing moments make me wanna slit my wrists at times...

I have to say though, Willow's addiction didn't just come out of nowhere. You can tell from season 4 that her powers and interest in magic are growing, and you see it even more in season 5, when Tara starts to get worried about it in the beginning of the season. It was a very progressive and gradual development of her character if you look at it closely.

I thought season 6 was executed very well and portrayed the message clearly. The reason why it is so depressing and dark is because it is life. Life is not all rainbows and sunshine, there are truly dark times in everyone's lives and season 6 portrayed that everyone hits rock bottom at some point in their lives.

[midwesternwatcher]

It always warms my heart to see people give love to S6. I have to agree about the Xander-Anya marriage, and I feel the manner chosen for Willow to end the world was a little ad hoc. The writers must've thought something like this: we've painted ourselves into a corner (after Seeing Red), the only way to save the world is to have Xander save Willow with his love (maybe Buffy could've been on the scene too, but certainly Xander). But how does he find Willow at the crucial moment? He must have an idea where to find her. That means that her manner of ending the world must require her to be in a specific place at a specific time, and somebody else must be able to figure out where that place and when that time is.