And unexplainedly klepto Dawn

It seemed pretty transparent to me. She was acting up and acting out, because her life sucked. Her father ignored her. She'd just found out she wasn't real. Her mother died. The only person who seemed to really love her died, and then was dragged out of heaven, and was a depressed crank who was ignoring her and babying her.

Also? Summers blood. The monks made her out of Buffy, who shoplifted before she was a slayer (see the 'calling of the slayer' flashback in Becoming).

I've always assumed that I'll like them better when I watch them again.

So had I. Unfortunately, I think Katie M nailed it when she said:

Well, the first time around you don't know that you've got thirteen more episodes of this to go.

I am getting some fun out of it, since I still llove OMWF, and I knew enough to fast forward the Loan Shark part of Tabula Rasa.

I seem to have stalled at the prospect of watching Doublemeat Palace again. Maybe tonight, when I am too tired to care how much it sucks.

I've always assumed that I'll like them better when I watch them again.

So had I. Unfortunately, I think Katie M nailed it when she said:

Well, the first time around you don't know that you've got thirteen more episodes of this to go.

This is like a jumbled version of me. I liked season 6 the first time around. I liked it when I rewatched select episodes between seasons 6 and 7. I couldn't wait to get the DVDs. Now I have had them for a week, and can't make myself start watching. It is a hard season, and a lot of the non-Buffista fandom really came close to ruining it for me.

knew enough to fast forward the Loan Shark part of Tabula Rasa.

I love the Loan Shark. Cause, get it?! He's a shark! Sorry, but I found it terribly amusing.

I seem to have stalled at the prospect of watching Doublemeat Palace again. Maybe tonight, when I am too tired to care how much it sucks.

That was a weird episode cause the TV Guide episode guide called it one of the best episodes of the season or something, and then I watched it and was all, "Buh?"

Willow's pseudo-science in that episode bugged me. SCIENCE IS NOT ALL ABOUT COLORED LIQUIDS. IN FACT, MOST LIQUIDS ARE FUCKING CLEAR.

What d'ya want? She was a junkie.

I think at the very start and the very end it was brilliant, and there were flashes of brilliance in the middle such as "Normal Again," "Dead Things," and most especially OMWF. But while I think the season as a whole was good from a critical standpoint, most of the rest wasn't enjoyable. And when it comes to rewatching, enjoyable keeps a hell of a lot better than critically good.

Honestly, it seems to me that once they got rolling a HUGE amount of the creative energy and resultant fun got sucked out of the middle of the season and concentrated in the musical.

Honestly, it seems to me that once they got rolling a HUGE amount of the creative energy and resultant fun got sucked out of the middle of the season and concentrated in the musical.

I agree with this. Up until Tabula Rasa, I was actually doing okay with the season on rewatch, despite some dislike, but then I hit the Smashed/Wrecked/Gone section, and it all went to hell.

I liked season 6 the first time around. I liked it when I rewatched select episodes between seasons 6 and 7. I couldn't wait to get the DVDs. Now I have had them for a week, and can't make myself start watching. It is a hard season, and a lot of the non-Buffista fandom really came close to ruining it for me.

This is me. The only ep I've watched so far is OMWF, twice. But I liked a lot of the season. Loved Life Serial, OMWF, Tabula Rasa, Normal Again, and Smashed. Also, Two to Go and Grave. So, most of the season. And I don't mind the season being so dark and depressing. I loved seasons 4/5 of AtS and I think they were just as dark, if not darker. But I can understand a lot of people not handling dark on Buffy. It wasn't what they thought of the series as being. Didn't help that S6 just reinforced S5, which was also a very dark season. Can't get much darker than committing suicide. So, you end on a downer and keep seeiming to go even deeper into a pit in S6. It was pretty unrelieved for quite a while. The only problem I have with S6 is that it was followed with S7. S7, while I liked it, didn't bring me back out of the (enjoyable to me) funk of S6. There wasn't enough funny to it and it started to take itself too seriously, like Joss was trying to prove a point and kept just missing it by an RCH. I really rather he had ended Buffy at S6 with the climbing out of the grave scene for Buffy. Then I could have wanked my way to a mucher fluffier fictional S7 of my own.

Joss was trying to prove a point and kept just missing it by an RCH

This is a unit of something with which I am not familiar.

Erm, P-C, it was a term used by a bunch of smart-assed Navy electronics techs in the day. It means by a very miniscule amount, like the thickness of a "red c--t hair."