Worst season?

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i love season 6, i like how most of the characters have their own stories going on, Xander and Anya's marriage and their problems after, Tara and Willow with her magic addiction and Spike and Buffy. i'm torn between thinking that Buffy was really harsh to Spike over their 'relationship' telling him that she's only using him and messing him around, one minute she's with him the next she's repulsed by him, and telling him he's beneath her too (thats just evil). but then i think 'he's a vampire so he deserves it'
The trio are brilliant and i love Dark Willow. i like the fight Giles and DW have in the magic shop
 
I suspect season 6 would have been very different if it hadn't been for the fact that Joss and the other writers knew for sure that they had season 7 guaranteed after it, and that this would in all probability be the last one. I see seasons 6&7 as part of a package, where they first had to deal with the dark effects of bringing Buffy back from a heavenly place and later Tara's death, before Buffy and Willow could work their way back to seeing meaning in life and end the show gloriously in season 7. For this reason I love everything of season 6, with the possible exception of the hamburgers (seeing The Slayer flip burgers dressed in a silly uniform makes me feel slightly ill).

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I think i am one of the only few on here that like the Doublemeat Palace Ep. I just found the Idea cool of Buffy working for the first time in her life, and it being at a burger joint lol. Plus all the employees, and that manager she had was so creepy, but funny. It wasn't an episode you would remember as a classic, but i don't think it's as horrible as people make it out to be.
 
I like season 6 less and less every time I watch it...but it's still way better than season 7. And it has more than its fair share of memorable and quality moments. And I, for one, really found Doublemeat Palace to be insanely entertaining.
 
Joan the Vampire Slayer
Joan the Vampire Slayer
agreed. very entertaining but pretty bad actually lol
Seasons 6 and 7 are by FAR my favorite seasons, so I definitely don't think it's the worst...the only thing really I have against this season is the use of magic as a metaphor for drugs...it's a bit silly, especially since it came out of nowhere and magic was never "addictive" before...and the effects they started using for magic were a bit "Sabrina the Teenage Witch".
 
Joan the Vampire Slayer
Joan the Vampire Slayer
agreed. they're my two favorites as well!!
Angel's Avenger said:
I'm going through season 6 and decided this my 2nd least favourite season. I only like one or two episodes, and some are really bad:

Double Meat Palace.
Wrecked
Smashed
As You Were
Dead Things

Thank goodness for the trio, they provided some comedy relief during this rather dark season.
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My least favorite season is S1.

And...Dead Things is one of my favorite episodes 🙂

And I agree: Doublemeat Palace is pretty bad...
 
Count me in on the season 6 love. I only hate it for the magic addiction storyline and the fact that it was the end of Tara's arc (Gah, how I hate that).

But I think the adult themes are as complex as they ever got on Buffy and I felt that it was time for the characters to go through them. I mean, it was hard to watch but it did make people think and feel a lot. I kinda like that.
 
I don't think there is such a thing as 'the worst season' in the Buffyverse because really none of them are bad. Season 6, the first time around wasn't one of my favourites I have to say. However, it's been a long time since I watched it through and I have a feeling I will find a new appreciation for it the second time round. Every single season of Buffy has it's own merit which quite franly is amazing for a show that went that long.
 
I love this season. It's my second-favorite after Season 2, and I love it because of its darkness.

It has some absolutely amazing episodes, and even more amazing arcs and themes. It has a musical. It has depth and darkness. It has sadness and incredible joy. The only episode I ever skip is Hell's Bells....because I love Anya, and I hate how that episode works out. 🙁

Dead Things bothers me, but I think that's the point of that episode...it's supposed to disturb people.

But the rest of it, mmm, could watch it over and over.
 
I think this season really showed the dramas of life in general and how they can be magnified and can control lives. It had a lot of emotion but all the characters really grew also within the season. It's personally one of my favorites, because it is one of the most realistic to life 🙂
 
I like some scenes in S6, but all of the episodes had bits I would have changed around. Because of that, there are very few (OMWF and, to a lesser extent, Tabula Rasa) that make my list of most-watched Buffy episodes; since I tend to rank seasons by the number of episodes I can watch over and over again, S6&7 are down at the bottom.

I've never quite been able to articulate why I so dislike the character arcs, but something feels off about them... I mean, Giles is gone, Buffy is all angst all the time, Dawn is still around, Willow is addicted to magic because, suddenly, magic = crack (Just Say No!). It felt like no one's story was developing organically, and that they all sprouted issues at the exact same time so that the season could be "dark."
 
sapientiapaucis said:
I've never quite been able to articulate why I so dislike the character arcs, but something feels off about them... I mean, Giles is gone, Buffy is all angst all the time, Dawn is still around, Willow is addicted to magic because, suddenly, magic = crack (Just Say No!). It felt like no one's story was developing organically, and that they all sprouted issues at the exact same time so that the season could be "dark."
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Agreed! I was trying to think of a way to say it, but I think you hit the nail on the head. That magic suddenly turned into an addictive drug was... off, and had nothing to do with Willow's real flaws--her tendency to need complete control and her stubborn belief that she knew best. Xander came off looking like a bigoted jerk half the time, and Buffy was so.... bleak and sad the entire season.

Giles angered me as well, because really, who deserts someone who just got back from heaven? His leaving just added more weight to Buffy's already heavy burdens, and it only made her more depressed than before. And Spike's storyline was kind of a mess, because I don't think the writers had a clear view of what the wanted from him; kind of good, but not really, but not really evil, but yeah, okay, evil.

But there are some great, great things about it too, so I wouldn't say it's my least favorite.
 
Season 6 is my favorite season, so I'm biased. I feel as though the conflicts did grow very organically. Willow's power and abuse of that power had been an issue pretty much ever since her first spell gone wrong. Xander's insecurities had also always been right there with him, so it made sense that someone would prey on those in order to take revenge on Anya who, frankly, did sort of deserve some come uppence for her thousand year reign of STDs and exploding intestines. Buffy's story was very much about coming back from Heaven and facing an overwhelming world of adult responsibility, things that had been in motion with her ever since her mom got sick.

I do agree about the criticism of Giles' story, though. I know ASH wanted to go home, but his timing made Giles' decision seem forced, rushed, and completely out-of-character for a man who had spent the last several years caring for Buffy and the Scoobies as though he were a father.
 
sapientiapaucis said:
I've never quite been able to articulate why I so dislike the character arcs, but something feels off about them... I mean, Giles is gone, Buffy is all angst all the time, Dawn is still around, Willow is addicted to magic because, suddenly, magic = crack (Just Say No!). It felt like no one's story was developing organically, and that they all sprouted issues at the exact same time so that the season could be "dark."
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Well, Buffy's makes total sense. Obviously her arc is suddenly different, because what had happened to her was sudden, and different, and bound to make her depressed.

Willow's addiction made perfect sense to me. Ever since S4, we've been told that she's getting powerful very fast. She surpassed Tara in just a short amount of time, magically. In S5, she's the only one able to hurt Glory after she brain-sucks Tara. Maybe the addicted part came on quickly, but that's what addictions do sometimes.
 
fly on the wall said:
Willow's addiction made perfect sense to me. Ever since S4, we've been told that she's getting powerful very fast. She surpassed Tara in just a short amount of time, magically. In S5, she's the only one able to hurt Glory after she brain-sucks Tara. Maybe the addicted part came on quickly, but that's what addictions do sometimes.
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I always felt it was more an addiction to power than magic, which is where I find my problem. Going from a shy, unconfident girl to an extremely powerful witch made Willow feel important and special, and that wasn't something she wanted to give up. Also, she'd always shown a tendency to try and take control of situations, usually without everyone's approval--way back in Season 3 she wanted to do the de-lusting spell on Xander without his permission. It was the power and the control Willow became addicted to, not the magic itself. So Willow craving and going through withdrawals over magic didn't fit with the flow of her plotline, in my opinion.
 
palabravampiress
palabravampiress
Hmm. Good point. I never thought of it that way.
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