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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cthulhudrew" data-source="post: 2603351" data-attributes="member: 4090">I tend to agree. I really enjoyed Season 6, myself, though a lot of people seem to have objected to its dark tone. In the context of the series as a whole, though, I think it is even stronger than it was when it aired.Season 7... meh. I thought it started out very strong, and I know part of my disappointment comes from the fact that I was subjecting myself to spoilers at the time (stupid me!)Like you say, though, I got the sense the theme was "passing the torch", yet it too quickly lost its focus that way and found itself centered on Buffy too heavily for such a theme. If it was supposed to be about her learning to share the responsibility, she should have, and we should have seen the pain and reluctance from her to let that responsibility go. Instead, we got too many episodes of lectures and Buffy getting beat up and recovering to beat the baddies herself. (Not saying we should have had less Buffy, mind, but more of her angst over turning over the responsibility. I don't know, maybe they felt they'd done that in Season 3 with Faith- in which case, why do it again.)Plus there were questions left unanswered, chiefly "why did the First Evil pick now to attack? What exactly did it mean when it said there was a weakness in the Slayer line?" Despite answers outside of the show (fan and official) this was something that really needed to be addressed in the show itself.Haven't picked up S7 on DVD yet, so maybe it will work better when viewed in its entirety. Season 3 was that way for me, for sure.</blockquote>

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