Buffy season six review by a newbie (BIG with the spoilers)

POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Saturday, May 13, 2006 14:25
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CHRISISALL

Sunday, April 30, 2006 4:54 PM

It was the darkest season so far.
Buffy clawing her way out of a grave, shaging Spike, being depressed, Tara dying, Willow skinning Warren, etc.
But it pushed my buttons, and was mostly well done.
The magic/crack metaphore was hammered a little, but it still made it's point.
And of course, OMWF was an absolute joy.
Overall, better than season 1, but not quite as good as season 5. (*thinks* Well, maybe equal...)
The final ep was great, with Xander being the one to save us all...
Still better than most other crap on TV (except FF and Dark Angel).

Briefly, Chrisisall

GROUNDED

Monday, May 1, 2006 11:03 AM

You absolutely tore through it!

CHRISISALL

Monday, May 1, 2006 3:51 PM

What can I say; I'm Reaver-like about my shows.
I'm four eps into seven now. Spike is facinating me, might have to pick up Angel S5 to follow up on him...
Seeing Spike sink so low as to try to rape Buffy was harsh, but it made his fighting for his soul quite well motivated and believable IMHO.

And to think, a while back I was stopping with Buffy's fourth season!?!?

Spike not bugs Chrisisall

GROUNDED

Monday, May 1, 2006 10:15 PM

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Originally posted by chrisisall:
but it made his fighting for his soul quite well motivated and believable IMHO.

That was a bit of a cheat if you ask me. Spike clearly has no intention of winning back his soul as he rides out of Sunnydale. The writers deliberately word his lines ambiguously, but it's all in his delivery - he clearly wants to come back evil. I thought they were going to deal with this in S7, but Spike just goes ahead and claims he fought for his soul. Lame.

CHRISISALL

Tuesday, May 2, 2006 3:12 AM

And Simon personally assisted in River's escape. Uh-huh.
As long as it's well done, I'm willing to overlook inconsistancies. And I think, so far, 6 and what I've seen of 7 are good. Definitly not the tight perfection of 2 and 3, but any Buffy is, well, Buffy, and therefore better than most other stuff.

But I can see why you'd be sour on 6 and 7, a year ago it would have soured me, too. It's all in the timing, I guess (and the demands of viewers who may or may not require consistancy...)

Undemanding (of Joss, anyway) Chrisisall

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Wednesday, May 3, 2006 10:19 AM

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Originally posted by chrisisall:
And Simon personally assisted in River's escape. Uh-huh.
As long as it's well done, I'm willing to overlook inconsistancies.

The big difference is that the inconsistencies in Serenity were practically essential due to the uniqueness of the cancelled-TV-show-to-movie thing. BtVS can make no such excuse.

CHRISISALL

Wednesday, May 3, 2006 2:34 PM

Point taken.
I allow a lot more in Buffy than I would FF/Serenity. It is a show about demons and end-of-the-world ploys, after all.

I mean, even Dark Angel had some inconsistancies...Chrisisall

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Wednesday, May 3, 2006 4:55 PM

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Originally posted by chrisisall:
I mean, even Dark Angel had some inconsistancies

Having said that, I can't remember any off the top of my head...

CHRISISALL

Wednesday, May 3, 2006 5:00 PM

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Having said that, I can't remember any off the top of my head...

"Twelve of us escaped that night..."
Ummm...Zack didn't; he got zapped.
Must have slipped out later that evening

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I can forgive it, though Chrisisall

EMBERS

Wednesday, May 3, 2006 7:03 PM

actually I would argue that there was never any inconsistancy in Spike's wanting his soul back...

obviously Joss worded it very carefully so that the viewers would think that Spike was going to get the chip out...
but if we had, any of us, thought about it logically:
the chip wasn't a barrier to Spike hurting Buffy and he knew that...
so he wasn't talking about that.

Spike keeps repeating that he is going to give Buffy what she deserves, but what Buffy deserves is a man with a soul...

the clues were there all along, the only people who refuse to see that are the ones who wanted Spike to stay a villan and not invade Angel's realm of Only Ensoul Vampire.

Personally I rolled on the floor laughing (literally, fell off the couch and rolled on the floor) when Spike got his soul,
because I should have seen it coming.
The only reason I was fooled is because Joss made James Marsters play it as angry as possible...
that isn't an inconsistancy,
that is bait and switch
(perfectly legitimate IMO)

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