The Buffy/Angelverse Headcanon 6: Something To Sing About

About a year into my fiance slowly, and I mean s-l-o-w-l-y watching through Buffy, he reached roughly this season, which I enjoy much more than some of the earlier seasons. So I joined in the rewatch and found it lived up to my memories. Sure, now you have to do your best to forget that Joss Whedon was a big ol' misogynist, racist dirtbag. And if you've read some of his comics, you have to contend with the fact that he's actually a terrible writer and that these wonderful episodes were definitely written by his more talented writing staff.

Season Five (and that last paragraph) was So So So Dark. Everyone you love died. So let's start over. We can't erase our past, but we can start over, right?

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Season 6:
Something To Sing About

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Episode 1: Bargaining
(Buffy, Giles, Willow, Xander, Anya, Dawn, Tara, Spike)

How can you have a show called Buffy The Vampire Slayer is Buffy is dead? Do you get Sandy Duncan to join the cast and call it The Hogan Family? Add James Garner & David Spade until the show suffocates under its own mediocrity? Nah, it's a sci-fi show, BRING HER BACK FROM THE DEAD!!! Everything will now be fluffy unicorns and sparkly vampires. Yay!

 
Episode 2: Deep Down
(Angel, Cordelia, Wesley, Gunn, Lorne, Fred, Conor, Lilah, Gavin))

Everything's fine over here in LA. Angel is keeping up with his swimming lessons, his somehow nearly adult son is hanging out with his vampire fighting friends, and Wesley is practicing his throat singing. This season is just so bright and shiny!


Episode 3: Once More With Feeling
(Buffy, Giles, Willow, Xander, Anya, Dawn, Tara, Spike)

In fact, everything this season is Just So Wonderful, that it's time for a musical episode!  Sing about how happy you are! Keep singing until the world is happy forever!


Episode 4: Spin The Bottle
(Angel, Cordelia, Wesley, Gunn, Lorne, Fred, Conor, The Beast)

Love is in the air! Let's get all middle school slumber party and play a game of spin the bottle. Oh, you know what, forget it. Just forget everything. It will all work out in the end. This is the happy season!


Episode 5: Apocalypse Nowish
(Angel, Cordelia, Wesley, Gunn, Lorne, Fred, Conor, Lilah, Gavin, The Beast)

Love is in the chair! That's why we keep tying people to it and demanding information! Love is in the chair! But who is The Beast? And why is making people's dreams all boo-hoo-hoo when he could be making them a reality like in those late night infomercials?


Episode 6: Tabula Rasa
(Buffy, Giles, Willow, Xander, Anya, Dawn, Tara, Spike)

It's Spin The Bottle again! But this time in Sunnydale! It's so easy to be so happy when you don't know who you so are! But once you remember, oh, it's time for the ones you love to leave you.


Episode 7: Normal Again
(Buffy, Willow, Xander, Joyce, Dawn, Tara, Spike, Jonathan, Warren, Andrew)

What if Buffy never died? What if Buffy never moved to Sunnydale? What if Buffy wasn't The Slayer at all? Would that have made everyone happy? Is this what happiness looks like?


Episode 8: Awakening
(Angel, Cordelia, Wesley, Gunn, Lorne, Fred, Conor, The Beast)

How  can everything be sunshine and lollipops if someone has blocked out the sun? LA is So Dark under the rule of The Beast. Well, at least if nothing's happy here then Angel can't be turned into Angelus. Nobody wants to see that guy again.


Episode 9: Seeing Red/Villains
(Buffy, Willow, Xander,  Dawn, Tara, Spike, Jonathan, Warren, Andrew)

See, everything is all happy again! Tara and Willow have reconciled, Buffy is a completely sane slayer, the season's villains are just three dudes the Scoobies went to high school with. Nobody could possibly be in danger from these three idiots. So everything will be fine.

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Episode 10: Two To Go/Grave
(Buffy, Giles, Willow, Xander,  Dawn, Tara, Spike, Jonathan, Andrew)

Last episode revealed a new Big Bad for this season. So much more dangerous than three high school idiots. So much more heartbreaking than an angry god or an old vampire. So say goodbye to this happy, joyful season.