Okay…Buffy the Vampire Slayer is my favorite show in the world. However it is not above criticism. My biggest problem with the show as a whole is season 5. Buffy season 5 is perhaps one of the worst things to happen to the show and quite frankly television as well. I will complain about this in further detail but the addition of Dawn and introduction of Glory were so wildly out of left field and inconsistent with the show as it had been established that it did nothing but bring out bad writing, weird and wrong character development and some terrible recovery after the fact. This season is not good and I almost always skip it but here we go.
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Overall I think everyone should always skip Buffy season 5. It is terrible and in the context of the current world that was already set up and solidified for 4 seasons it actually makes no sense. Dawn is whiny, annoying and she adds nothing to the show or to the group dynamic. If we needed the Buffy dying and being resurrected storyline there were about 1000 better ways to do that without bringing in a literal God. And honestly if you removed this entire season from the show and jumped back in at season 6 nearly everything would still make sense. So anyway Buffy is better if you skip season 5.
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