Question Best season or worst? #2

I would never put season 6 as my favorite one, but I actually think it is one of the good seasons, although my take on it is a weird one, as always. Firstly I consider the musical episode to be one of the worst of the entire show - of all seasons. I finished watching it the first time with great effort - and only because 'it was Buffy'. I could not finish it the second time and had to fast-forward almost every time the musical number started. It was as if watching one's horrible nightmare come true on screen - then again I have particular sensitivity to off-tune singing and the nonsensical plot simply drove me up the wall. ( Especially the ending - with Xander being the culprit.) I do have to apologize in advance - but I saw a few other fans express the same reaction , so here we go. Btw - my dislike of OMWF has nothing to do with my shipping preferences. I dislike the moments with Anya singing in S7 with the same passion. Strangely enough, I love Joss dancing in Angel S2. Shrug. Go figure.

My favorite episodes of S6 are Bargaining p1,2 , Normal again, ... Enthropy and Seeing Red. Getting ready to be pelted with rotten fruit. But I actually loved the pay-off from all that buildup darkness. All the accumulated, pent-up anger and frustration had to be released in a burst of dark passions and it did... it sure did. The ending of the season was actually very cathartic - and my favorite moment was Buffy and Giles laughing together. The actual ending with Willow running amok and the yellow crayon speech was a let down after that.
 
Not the worst, that to me will always be season 7, but I don't like season 6 all that much either. It has some good episodes, but overall I didn't like it very much.
 
Its not the best season, but its not the worst either. I love the whole arc of Buffy's return into an almost living-hell for her and the consequences of this for her character. Exploring these emotions was something different and it really paid off. I HATE the trio with a passion so the season looses lots of points because of a lame big bad - but I do like Dark Willow.
 
I loved it. S6, S7, S2, S3, and S5, are my personal favorites. But 6 really stands out to me as a turning point for the series. It went to a very DARK place, which I always love in a show, and just did so much with characterization more, and really had an actual villain arc, AND NOT JUST A VILLAIN OF THE SEASON, which I hadn't felt since Angelus in S2. It felt very epic. And in some ways, I felt like this would've been a good place to end it... with a few adjustments, of course.
 
Not my favorite season but...I'm re-watching it right now and I forgot how much I love it. I know a lot of people aren't too crazy about it because it's so "dark" but...I like dark. I hated that Tara died, and I will never get over it, but I do love Dark Willow. Which is a given I suppose.
 
buffenuff said:
Since I'm only about thirteen eps into Season 6, I can't give a final assessment yet, but I do feel like Joss was probably painted into a corner, in that he may not have known for certain if the show would return after Season 5, what with the network change and everything. Yes, The Gift does feel to me like it could very well have been a series finale and it was probably planned that way. The show was probably very up in the air after The Gift and the writers were stuck in wanting to give the fans a proper ending, if indeed, the show did not return. Therefore, they may also not have been as ready to resume with Season 6. The writing does seem weaker to me than in previous seasons. The humor is not there quite as much, which saddens me. The darker turn is obvious, which I don't mind all that much. I hate the idea of Spuffy, but am interested to see where it goes. I just don't think it is really what Buffy would have wanted to be involved with and she would have never allowed it. It went against her core beliefs, but then again, being a Bangel fan, Angel was a Vamp too who did have his dark moments, so it really isn't that inconceivable that she would have fallen for Spike. I don't know, for me it just doesn't have a proper feel to it and I always have felt she belonged with Angel. I also miss the presence of Giles, but the guy left the show to be with his real family. This is not the writer's fault. That is all I have, for now.
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Joss knew the show would go on, but The Gift was advertised as the series finale, not the season finale, so it was kind of like it could have ended for some peole, but it was hsi way of making everythign uncertain
 
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