Is this season just objectively bad and I never realized?

[NotASlayer]

I mean the whole concept of the First Evil is mocked in Amends but now we have to take it seriously. Sod it, its Joss and he's God am I right

And it was still impossible to take it seriously in Sunnydale. Except if Faith had to look bad; then it could predict the future almost down to the second.

Also the Uber Vamps that are hard to kill in Episodes 10 and 11 are now so easy that even non super powered beings can kill them easily.

Given what they knew about the Punyvamps, entering the Hellmouth was suicide. Heck, even though they were now so puny that they could be killed by toddlers with pointy sticks, entering the Hellmouth outnumbered that badly was suicide. Buffy's "plan" was idiotic.

 

[Btvs fan]

And it was still impossible to take it seriously in Sunnydale. Except if Faith had to look bad; then it could predict the future almost down to the second.



Given what they knew about the Punyvamps, entering the Hellmouth was suicide. Heck, even though they were now so puny that they could be killed by toddlers with pointy sticks, entering the Hellmouth outnumbered that badly was suicide. Buffy's "plan" was idiotic.

I got do fed up of Buffy constantly punching or attacking Faith in this season. It made Buffy completely unsympathetic imo

 

[AlphaFoxtrot]

Re: The First as a Concept: I think the god of suicides part could have been terrifying. Like, the First isn't Satan or Ahriman, it's a hive mind of the damned, who really have nothing but hatred for the living left, but are also in a state of decay, so suicides are something of a sacrifice that keeps it going. Something that appeals to your most nihilistic impulses to end it all. But it also wants to live again, and the season becomes about stopping that. But that could get pretty dark, and Buffy hadn't committed in years to being horror.