Death and Destruction |
This rant is written by my good friend Brittany, who pretty much has the same opinion as me on everything Buffy! Thanks to Britt for the great rant :)
Season 6. The year that Joss is gone and Marti takes over. Don’t intend to sound rude, (Joss, you are my God) but this was a huge mistake on your behalf. For starters, season 5 was a good way to end the show. A fun way. It made sense to end it there. The contract with the WB was up, SMG was ready to end it, Joss was ready to give it up –he wrote ‘The Gift’ as the series finale. Buffy died and I thought it was the best way they could have ended the show. Her character needed to be put to rest. They couldn’t end the show with her alive, as they did with her later in ‘Chosen’. It seemed right to have her die saving the world. The voice-over was great, the battle scene was great, the acting was amazing. Why could they not have left it there? Joss why did you approve another season, when you weren’t even interested in being head of the series for that season anyway?
Bringing Buffy back for another season was resurrecting something already dead –literally. The first mistake Marti made as head of the series was having Buffy come back depressed. Having the title character shut-off from all the other characters, and from the show itself makes the show very hard to watch. I hope she learnt something from that, because for me personally: I lost my heroine. Buffy had always been my hero. That was up until this point. But once this season began, she distanced herself from her friends and she turned to Spike to feel something. Someone she hated. Everything she let him do to her was disgusting. It made me feel sick that she would just stop standing up for herself. That she let him hurt her. It got me pissed. That the person I looked up to and admired wouldn’t just kick his vampiric ass. This brings me to another mistake from Marti and the writing team who decided to give him the entire seasons storylines–not everybody loves Spike. Me being one of those people who despise him. So having him prancing around with no clothing is not going to be hip hip hooray for everybody. Naked Spike every, single episode? I was about ready to wash out my eyeballs…
And in doing the dirty deeds with Spike, Buffy was furthering herself from her friends. Okay, we get it, Buffy was in heaven, they ripped her out blah blah blah. We heard it already. Get over it –spank your inner morbid. It’s sad, you’re depressed, but they didn’t know. Your friends thought that you were in some kind of hell, they had no idea you were at peace. You must forgive. Miss Summers, forgive. Say it with me! They can’t help you if they have no idea what you’re going through. Talk to them, or better yet, get some professional help!
Yes, I realise that they need Buffy to be human. They need her to make mistakes, but I still dislike the way that they proved these things. It was completely out of character. To have her hate someone for 4 years, and then suddenly turn that hate into lust was strange. The writing was untrue to Buffy’s character for the last 5 years. This is not something she would do. Okay, so there was that incident with Parker a couple of years ago… But she was a college freshman. She was un-knowing, trying desperately to get over her previous love. She has grown since then. She learnt her lesson and talked out her problems with her friends and family and it all turned out okay. She used to be happy, bright. Not during season 6. Buffy wasn’t happy. Wasn’t strong. She stayed in her dark, dank, shell-of-misery because she wanted to. That is why I dislike this season, because Buffy was no longer the hero. Joss has said this himself.
Now it seems strange to me, that Riley Finn of all people, made me extremely happy this year. It seems even stranger, that he made me happy simply by being there. By stopping Buffy’s rampage of sex with that peroxide blonde freak. What the hell, I’m going to say it: RILEY FINN –I LOVE YOU!!!!! Yes! You knocked some freaking sense into your past love. You have no idea what I’ve been going through this season. Although I don’t approve of the wife. Ugh, her hair is just… too severe. She looks like she’s used a full bottle of gel to slick that back. It just doesn’t work for her face shape. She needs some kind of body to it. Some movement in her hair. Let her know would you? You seem to be putting out fires all over the place…
Now I must move on, before this starts to sound repetitive… Not only did I lose Buffy this season. On top of my ever growing hate, I lost Willow. Nerdy, wallflower, cute, fuzzy-jumper-wearing Willow. I thought that I could depend on her to keep the show at least a little bit innocent. She disappeared, and in her place is some crazy with black hair and blue veins, intent on bursting my ear drums with her high pitched scream. I feel lost; I may never find the show that I used to enjoy watching again… See what you created Buffy! If you had of talked to your friends, TALKED, LISTENED! Maybe we wouldn’t be in this mess!
He –hem.
Tara. Sweet, quiet, SANE, Tara. COME BACK!!! Buffy is experiencing near rape, Xander is leaving women at the alter, WILLOW HAS GONE CRAZY (!) please, we need you. And again an example of me losing EVERY BODY I EVER LOVED. Thanks a lot Warren, just when we really needed some happiness. Willow was HAPPY! For a few minutes with Tara she was HAPPY! SOMEONE THROUGHOUT THIS SEASON WAS HAPPY! Then you come along with your stupid gun, and your stupid mission to kill Buffy, and your terrible aim, and you shot the one person I could truly rely on throughout this year of gut-wrenching horror.
Despite all of this, I see how one good thing came out of the season: Xander saved the world! I love ya Xand.
So you see, ladies and gentleman, THIS is why season 6 is my least favourite season. It was a year of death, destruction, and much hate on my behalf. I lost a role model. I lost all respect for my ex-favourite character. I’m sorry Buffy, but I can’t stand to look at you. It’s too much to bear. See what this season has caused? PAIN. Much, much pain. I told Riley I loved him. Enough said.
Signing off,
Brittany.