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| ![Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Season 6 (Box Set 1) [1998]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51BBBR5J43L._SL500_.jpg)
| Actor: Sarah Michelle Gellar
Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Category: Video
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Rating:  47 reviews
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Language: English (Original Language)
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 buffy season 6 February 11, 2003
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
Bargaining part 1 2:pTese first two episodes covered buffy being raised from the dead. Some good acting but the plot was a little thin and tiring. I expected more action for the opening of a season. pAfter life:pThis was a good episode that dealt with issues of buffys ressurection. For buffy coming back something else arrives too.pFlooded:pAnother tiring episode with the trio aka Jonathon warren and andrew. I found this episode aimed towrd little children. pLife serial: pBoring episode with the trio (noticing a pettern) a few laughs but not a gripping storyline.pAll the way: pThis was quite a good episode focusing more on Dawn and her life.pOnce more with feeling: pGreat episode, bringing lots off the gangs issues together with song and dance, excellently written and superbly acted and sung ecspecially Tara, Buffy, Anya and GilespTabula Rasa: pGood episode focusing on willows magic use, sadly Tara and willows breakup and superb song from Michelle BranchpSmashed:pWillow using the magic a bit to much brings back Amy from being a rat (took long enough). pWrecked:pWillow and her addiction to magic gets more of an issue, although starting to drag out a little bit.pGone: pboring episode, with the trio (see the pattern) buffys invisible and she has a bit of fun. (notice the song buffy whistles - going through the motions from Once more with feeling)
 Second time round - much better January 20, 2003
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
I absolutley hated Season Six when it first aired on Sky One. I just felt that the show lost all sense of focus and only really got it together for the final three episodes. pAfter watching Season 6 Part 1 on video, I've started to change my mind.pBargaining I II: Fairly predictable start to the season, with Buffy being raised by 'a spell'. However, the excellent ritual sequence and seeing the gang try to cope without Buffy make this a highly entertaining season opener. br4/5pAfter Life: The darker tones of Season 6 start to come to the fore. Excellent way of exploring Buffy's return. br4/5pFlooded: Not quite as strong as previous episodes, but again shows Buffy trying to adapt. br3/5pLife Serial: Again focussing on Buffy's ressurrection, this episode demonstrates how the gang are slowly losing their way. br3/5pAll The Way: Entertaining in places, this is fairly predictable stuff. Good, but by no means great. br3/5pOnce More, With Feeling: This is one of the best Buffy episodes ever. Everything comes together perfectly, and the secrets the gang have kept from one another expose themselves through cheery song. Genius.br5/5pTabula Rasa: This is a great comedy episode, but also deals with the break-up of Willow and Tara's relationship. br5/5pSmashed: Willow's increasing dependance on magic becomes the main focus of the story, as does Buffy's relationship with Spike. Despite dealing with important issues, the episode sometimes loses focus.br3/5pWrecked: Featuring the complete breakdown of Willow, Wrecked is a good dramatic episode, with the final 2 or 3 scenes particularly standing out.br4/5pGone: Poor attempt at comedy. I smiled once or twice, but this really isn't worth watching.br2/5pSeason 6 Part 1 Rating: 4/5 pI really enjoy the darker moments of this season, something which I know a lot of fans disliked. It makes sense, as the show needs to mature and start to deal with the ever-present dark forces in a way which reflects this maturity.
A personal best January 13, 2003
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I don't understand the criticism this latest series of Buffy recieved as I found it to be the best series yet! It's powerful and thought invoking plus Spike has become well sexy (well have you seen the bod??!!). I almost didn't bother watching this series but am very glad I did and therefore highly recommend it to anyone else in two minds whether to buy the box set. However the episode where Buffy is actually crazy and Sunnydale is a mere figment of her imagination was a litlle to close to the whole Dallas 'and it was all a dream' scenerio for my liking and finished leaving a little too much doubt in my mind! xxx
Impressive stuff that takes the series in a new direction December 16, 2002
Alain English (London, England)
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
Following on from a cataclysmic finale to Season 5, Season Six of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" takes the series into a new direction altogether. This season is less preoccupied with large-scale demonic villainy, but relies more on the relationships between the characters as the source of much of the action and drama.pAfter Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) died at the end of last season saving the world, the rest of the gang are finding it hard to survive in Sunnydale without her. But Willow (Alysson Hannigan), who is becoming an increasingly powerful witch, has a plan to bring the Slayer back from the dead.....pWhen Buffy crawls out of her own grave, she finds re-adjusting to the land of the living much more difficult than she could have anticipated. Her hardest challenge, and the recurring theme of this season, is simply being an adult. Lost, she turns to neutered but still evil vampire Spike (James Marsters) for comfort. It doesn't help that her friends are preoccupied with their own difficulties.pHer mentor Giles (Anthony Stewart Head) returns to England, feeling Buffy will never become a responsible grown-up so long as he's around. Her sister Dawn (Michelle Trachtenberg) flounders and turns to thieving to try and get some attention. Willow's Wiccan lover Tara (Amber Benson) worries about her girlfriend's overuse of magic and is forced to leave her. Meanwhile Xander (Nicholas Brendon) is reluctant to announce his impending marriage to the feisty Anya (Emma Caufield), as he inwardly questions whether he really made the right choice proposing to her...pConflicted and vulnerable, the gang fall prey to the whims of a trio of slackers (Adam Busch, Danny Strong and Tom Lenk). Bored with playing Dungeons and Dragons and lacking any real incentive in life, the three of them decide to bedevil the Slayer and set themselves up as the new Big Bad in Sunnydale. This being a fantasy show, the geeks are armed with magic and improbably high-tech weaponry like freeze guns and invisibility rays.pThe first part of the season isn't actually too bad. There are some slightly weaker episodes, such as "All the Way" or "Life Serial", which seem to exist merely as filler episodes that don't bring the story on in any significant way.pThe opener is a great start to the season, which a potentially disturbing sequence where Buffy digs herself out of her own grave. "Flooded" features a rivetting confrontation between Willow and Giles. Giles damns Willow for resurrecting Buffy, calling her "a rank, arrogant amateur". Willow's coolly threatening response hints at her development later in the season.p"Flooded" also introduces the villainous Trio, two of whom we've met before. Although they will turn much more serious later on, here they're played as amusing comedy relief, and this works very well. Their antics in "Flooded" and "Gone" are especially amusing.pBut little doubt the highlight of the season is the much-touted musical episode. Show creator Joss Whedon, who directed the episode as well as writing the music and script, has truly outdone himself here in a fantastic show which brings out the best from his regular cast. Their vocals might not be entirely note-perfect, but the songs are performed with gusto and verve.pNot quite on par with the best of "Buffy" but still an entertaining show, these episodes pave the way for some very interesting developments later in the season.
Buffy Bounces Back October 4, 2002
Russell Tofts (Cambridge, Cambs, United Kingdom)
14 out of 16 found this review helpful
In Season Six we're plunged into darker, more sinister territory. This is made clear right from the first few episodes. Buffy is wrenched back from the dead and finds herself, in a disorientated state, surrounded by motorcycle-riding demons, mayhem, noise and conflagration, and all that before she witnesses the violent destruction of the Buffy-Bot. It is not surprising that she is convinced she must be in Hell. And who can blame her? It must be disconcerting for her, to say the least, that the first thing she sees on her return is her own tombstone. No wonder she is miserable about being brought back by her well-intentioned, but ultimately misguided, friends. The gang can't understand her melancholy. Why, they ask themselves, is she not dancing for joy? Eventually, in "Once More, With Feeling", Buffy blurts out the reason she is unhappy and, for the first time, Willow and the others wonder whether they have mucked things up for her. Xander hits the nail squarely on the head when he says that, sure, he was selfish in wanting to have her back, when Buffy herself might have preferred to remain in a dimension she now believes was Heaven where, in her own words, she was "warm and loved and finished", but is it wrong for him to feel a certain smug pleasure that she's back? As he so eloquently puts it, with characteristic Xander-like succinctness: "Me like Buffy - Buffy back - Me glad."br The episode in which Buffy returns to life is one of the strongest, and one of my personal favourites, although that is not to say it is perfect. There are a number of glaring inconsistencies. Buffy emerges from her grave, dishevelled, but looking amazingly clean. Her hair doesn't appear even to have any dirt or leaves in it. And I am far from convinced that, having been dead for almost 148 days, she would have the strength to walk, let alone kick some serious demon ass within minutes of her resurrection.br For reasons which are explained in the show (I won't bother going into detail here; you'll just have to watch it to find out what they are), the method by which Buffy is brought back can never be repeated. Ever. It was a one-off. This is, perhaps, just as well because otherwise it would rob the programme of much of its excitement, knowing that every time a major character is killed off, he/she could be brought back to life again in a trice. ("Dr Who" was never quite the same when you realised that it didn't really matter if the Daleks or the Cybermen got the upper hand, because the good Doctor would simply regenerate into a different, and inexplicably younger, body each time.)br Much of Season Five and the first half of Season Six were slightly marred by Willow's over-reliance on magic, until it got to a stage whereby you knew that, whatever dire adversity the Scoobies faced, Willow would simply invoke a spell to banish or incapacitate the demon. But I now see this as part of the larger picture. Willow was getting hooked on magic. The drug addiction metaphor is unavoidable, and comes to its apotheosis when Willow crashes the car, almost killing Dawn. (A pity there are too many dramatic conveniences within the series, like just how did Buffy (and Spike) contrive to wander past at the exact moment when the accident happened?)br Some of the best episodes are: "Bargaining"; "After Life"; "Wrecked"; "Gone"; and (the less-than-brain-taxing premise notwithstanding) the extended musical extravaganza, "Once More, With Feeling". This last episode, which I didn't think I would enjoy, proves that writer Joss Whedon could, if he so wishes, carve quite a comfortable career for himself as a writer of musicals.br The worst episode is "Life Serial". The one original idea in it - that time moves at an accelerated rate for Buffy when everyone else is on "real" time - is never fully explored and is resolved too soon. The interminable scene in the Magic Box, in which Buffy is caught in a time loop and having a little difficulty with a disembodied Mummy's hand, is just too preposterous. And can anybody explain how the Three Geeks, Andrew, Warren and Jonathan, are such great inventors of incredible gadgets when they appear as so calamity prone?br I can understand the darker story lines not meeting with the approval of every die-hard fan, but I found the new direction a refreshing change from the levity that characterised the early seasons which, at times, was inappropriate for the grave situations (no pun intended) in which Buffy and the others found themselves. The characters in Season Six are older, wiser; they've mellowed; they're facing adult responsibilies. Xander is even preparing for marriage. And Buffy is finding that slaying all the evils the Hellmouth can unleash against her is a piece of cake compared with such mundane issues as mending a leaking water pipe, pacifying the social services who want to take dawn into care, and applying for a bank loan (the latter a stressful task at the best of times, even if you're, unlike Buffy, you're not interrupted by a demon intent on robbery).br I enjoyed the "pop culture" references which pepper the script as thickly as they have done in the past, which show that BTVS does not exist in isolation, but the characters inhabit the same world, and are exposed to the same cultural influences, as the rest of us. The danger is that such topical references might prematurely date the show when episodes are repeated on television (as I'm sure they will be) in ten or fifteen years time. br The major problem facing the scriptwriters must be (to paraphrase a song refrain in "Once More, With Feeling") where to go from here. Having had Buffy face such apparently indestructible foes as The Master, The Judge, The Mayor, Adam, and Glory, it can't be easy for the scriptwriters to think up new protagonists for Buffy to pit herself against.
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