IS BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER season 6 a good blind buy
06-12-04, 06:20 PM
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IS BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER season 6 a good blind buy
i have season 1 - 5 and i have to say this is the best tv show i have ever seen. but i have never seen season 6 of buffy. i personally dont know if i should shell out 50 bucks for this season. its recieved allot of negative reviews from fans and critics alike. so do yall think i should just get it in order to further my collection.
06-12-04, 09:00 PM
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Since you've come so far, you owe it to yourself to get it. I mean, despite what even the harshest critics say, it isn't suddenly a different show. The characters are all taken to a dark place and undergo changes but they're still the characters you've grown to love from seasons 1-5. Personally, I love the season as well as the next.
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06-14-04, 09:31 AM
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I personally don't understand the (somewhat) negative reaction to this season. I enjoyed it just as much as the others. If you liked 1-5, you'll probably like 6.
ps - shop around. There's no reason you should be shelling out 50 bucks for any Buffy season.
ps - shop around. There's no reason you should be shelling out 50 bucks for any Buffy season.
06-14-04, 01:15 PM
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Originally posted by bboisvert
I personally don't understand the (somewhat) negative reaction to this season. I enjoyed it just as much as the others. If you liked 1-5, you'll probably like 6.
I personally don't understand the (somewhat) negative reaction to this season. I enjoyed it just as much as the others. If you liked 1-5, you'll probably like 6.
Even though there were a handful of "dud" episodes in S6, I enjoyed the overall arc a lot, and since it involved
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I also thought the
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I also see people complain about the darker tone this season adopted, but in a lot of ways, the series has been building up to this darkness for the past five years.
06-14-04, 04:02 PM
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I would recommend picking up 6 very much. Yes, it has its problems. But it is still a very, very good season. Heck, if you still bought season 5 after watching the dreadfull (for BtVS standards) season 4 (imo, the worst of the series), then you should definitely get 6 & 7. And although the series did take a somewhat "darker" turn, it still has some of funniest moments of the series with "the trio" - Buffy's arch nemesisis(es).
06-14-04, 05:17 PM
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Re: IS BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER season 6 a good blind buy
Originally posted by maki
i have season 1 - 5 and i have to say this is the best tv show i have ever seen. but i have never seen season 6 of buffy. i personally dont know if i should shell out 50 bucks for this season. its recieved allot of negative reviews from fans and critics alike.
i have season 1 - 5 and i have to say this is the best tv show i have ever seen. but i have never seen season 6 of buffy. i personally dont know if i should shell out 50 bucks for this season. its recieved allot of negative reviews from fans and critics alike.
i heard the same bad WOM that you did, and i was expecting to just ignore the last two sets...but then i happened to catch the second hour of the season opener on FX, and it made me very curious to see the rest of the season.
in so much as i had never seen the season before that would constitute a blind buy- and in that case i can say that this was one of the best blind buys i ever made.
i loved the season.
the negative comments about it baffle me.
i got so jazzed after mowing thru the 6th set that i went out and picked up S2- and frankly, after going thru the first 1/2 of that set, i'm a little disappointed.
that second season ends great from what i remember, but i find much of the material to be quite ...dispensible- especially after the emotional roller coaster of 6.
S6 was GREAT episodic tv and i feel sorry for anyone that wasn't able to appreciate it.
06-14-04, 05:56 PM
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Re: Re: IS BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER season 6 a good blind buy
Originally posted by ckolchak
especially after the emotional roller coaster of 6.
especially after the emotional roller coaster of 6.
06-14-04, 07:07 PM
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I really enjoy S6, but during its original run it was a bit hard to take - unrelenting grimness for months on end. Blasting through it in two weeks on DVD was so much better.
Also, ckolchak, - IMO the series as a whole doesn't start to get really good until the second half of S2, so stick with it.
Also, ckolchak, - IMO the series as a whole doesn't start to get really good until the second half of S2, so stick with it.
06-14-04, 09:55 PM
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Re: Re: Re: IS BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER season 6 a good blind buy
Originally posted by Adam Tyner
I think it would've been better liked by fans if there had been at least some glimmer of happiness (the rollercoaster moving upwards); I know the intent was to infuse Buffy with a bit of reality, but real life isn't that relentlessly bleak. (Also note that there's a difference between "better liked" and "better", and I'm not suggesting the latter.) The season seemed a lot darker to me when I first watched it on UPN. Rewatching these episodes, this time in quick succession on DVD, my complaints didn't seem to hold anymore.
I think it would've been better liked by fans if there had been at least some glimmer of happiness (the rollercoaster moving upwards); I know the intent was to infuse Buffy with a bit of reality, but real life isn't that relentlessly bleak. (Also note that there's a difference between "better liked" and "better", and I'm not suggesting the latter.) The season seemed a lot darker to me when I first watched it on UPN. Rewatching these episodes, this time in quick succession on DVD, my complaints didn't seem to hold anymore.
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But I can understand how seeing a lot of these plotlines dragged out over several months could wear on viewers, especially during a run of weaker episodes/plotlines.
06-15-04, 12:03 AM
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I really enjoy S6, but during its original run it was a bit hard to take - unrelenting grimness for months on end. Blasting through it in two weeks on DVD was so much better.
in my case, i finished this season in 3 days.
i haven't been this compulsive about a tv show since Alias (which i also didn't see during its network run).
06-15-04, 08:01 AM
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I never watched Buffy during her entire run on the networks. I did not hear about the show until the 4th season and by then began hearing rumors of a dvd release, so I just waited and have watched the entire series that way. In this way, I have been able to watch at my own pace and have really enjoyed all seasons. I feel that each season had some weak episodes but that overall the characters made the weak shows interesting.
In relation to season 6, I feel the entire arc was very well done and expressed in very Buffylike terms that life is tough and bad things happen to good people. Very good season.
I am trying not to be caught up in the comments on season 7 as I will probably enjoy that one also when it is released.
"Where do we go from here...?"
In relation to season 6, I feel the entire arc was very well done and expressed in very Buffylike terms that life is tough and bad things happen to good people. Very good season.
I am trying not to be caught up in the comments on season 7 as I will probably enjoy that one also when it is released.
"Where do we go from here...?"
06-17-04, 01:05 PM
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Josh-da-man, your pointing out the highlights really reminded me that there was a lot of good in the season. It tends to blur together with the dreaful season 7 for me, which really was like watching a different show. But 6 had a lot of excellent stuff in it. Don't forget the scene early on when Spike tries to talk with Buffy about his own experiences in hell and how she drops the bomb on him. I get shivers thinking about when I saw that scene the first time.
