Is it me? Or was Series 5 really not that good?

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Season 5 had some really great episodes.

I liked our big bad. Glory was a different and lovely villain.

I liked Dawn. She wasn't whiny, she was just being a little sister. I think it was kinda good they brought someone new to Buffy's life.

We had a HUGE revealing episode with William/ Spike. Couldn't live without that one! I could easily find a season worse than the 5th. Take season 4. Really not one I like.
 
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Your Creamy Coolness said:
Season 5 is my favorite season peroid!! It is just amazing from beginning to the end. IMHO
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I have to agree. This is my favourite season out of all 7. This was meant to be the final season of Buffy ever anyway, which is why it went out with Buffy sacrificing herself.

The only thing I found annoying was when they kept recapping the same things over and over again at the beginning. Lucky for dvd's and fastforwarding that part.
 
Season 5 is in the middle for me (I go 2,6,3,5,7,4,1), so I liked it ok. Glory was a good villan and the season had some real sparkly moments like Fool For Love, The Body, Forever, Intervention and The Gift. I am not a Dawn lover, I pretty much just tolerated her until season 7 when she got a bit better, although wingy teenager? Ive been there! we pretty much all have. And it did give us the only kinda Tara central episode ever, Family. Which while not the best ep, it was nice to get into her character for a bit.
 
You are completely of your bird! season 5 was THE season. It was brilliant.
 
By my estimation S5 had one great episode. One. S5 ate the cheese big time. It felt more like Xena than Buffy, for precisely that reason. "The Body" was the only redeeming episode.

[Edit] to pernilleborup: Yeah, Xena kicks some ass.
 
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I don't know...The body was kinda..OK I didn't like it. I think it had some great moments, no doubts about it, but to me it was just kinda...meh
 
But...but...the buffybot.... 🙁

I'll grant you that S5 maybe wasn't a wonderful stand-alone ep season, but it had possibly the greatest arc. I for one judge the season as a whole by its arc, so IMO its neck in neck with S2. Its like S4 for example... it has some great stand-alone eps, but the overall arc was a suckfest. So its kinda like, take the good wth the bad.
 
I hated season 4... worst villain ever! Adam was lame... and his hair stood straight up
 
i thought season 5 was a very strong season actually, yes it was a big risk to throw dawn in there and of course riley yikes, the strongest episodes to me would be real me which had some great scooby moments, family it was good to see tara get out in front, the body which was just fabulous the acting the drama and finally a willow tara kiss, forever i enjoyed the slight return of angel, the final 3 episodes i loved also the scoobys been trapped was great as was willow inside buffys mind and finally the gift terrific season finale so overall it was a fine season i would say its probably the strongest season after 2: popcorn:
 
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Airam
S5 & 2 are my faves too, great choices!
Just watched The Gift yesterday.... And... It a SAD SAD SAD Season... Almost all the episodes was all crying and giving up. Not complaining.. I like the Season, but its kinda heavy to watch. Joyce dies, the episode The Body is disturbing and well done, Tara become a mad woman, Willow is lost, Giles is lost, Buffy is lost (and dead!)

The highlights are: Spike relationship with Dawn (somebody said to me here in BB´s I´d like them.. they were right!)... so funny and cute *_*

And the BuffyBot! I love the Buffybot! It´s so damn funny to see SMG with that odd face xD

About Dawn, in the first episodes I was like "what a hell?? a sister?? Joss smoked something!"
 
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I wouldn't say S5 was bad. I enjoyed it. Yeah Dawn was a slight emotional during that season, but so is every average teenage girl. Hell, I STILL appologize to my mother for the way I acted as a teen. LOL. I enjoyed the interaction between herself and Spike, I bawled like a baby when Joyce died, and at the end when she died. Not to mention Glory cracked me up. I'd say it was pretty stellar.
 
I absolutely LOVED Season 5! It was so confusing at first, and then the pieces fell together and it was awesome. All the characters grew and changed so much, and I LOVED Glory... She was the best villian ever. Her and the Mayor!
 
Season 6 was and will always be my favourite. BUT season 5 is absolutly my second favourite. i love the "big bad" (glory), dawn, the buffy bot, etc etc. I was really surprised when i watched season 5 for the 1st time. 😉
 
In my opinion, season five is actually the best season of Buffy. While season seven is my favorite, I thought that it was the best written, and there were so many good episodes in here.
While Dawn was annoying at first, I grew to really like her after a couple of episodes.
"Family" was such an amazing piece of work, and the relation that I can make to Tara really made me like it so much more. "Fool For Love" was such a great episode, there was such a great interaction between Spike and Buffy, especially when they sighted together at the end of the episode. "The Body" was just so amazingly beautiful and sad, and that's another plus of the season. And "The Gift!" Probably one of the best episodes of BTVS, second or third only to "Once More, With Feeling". I think that a lot of people didn't like season six (in my opinion) mainly because season five was so good that it was hard to live up to it.
 
Season 5 is my favorite season, almost every episode is either good or great, it had the best overall arc, big bad, episode and finale.
 
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Yes, I agree. I think it's the best - but like Ellyce, I also really like season seven. And six.
I think season 5 was great, there was just certain elements that didn't work for me. Mainly, the whole brain sucking thing, just a little bit silly for me, and tara very much suffered from it. Would have loved to have had tara and willow fight the big fight together. Especially since tara only had one season left, bit of a waste. The whole idea of dawn actually worked brilliantly, shouldn't have but it did.
 
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