555: Dawson's Crypt

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.7 • 704 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2021

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

The sixth season of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” features dark and unpleasant themes, a painful magic-as-heroin allegory, and creative decisions that manage to be cruel to both the show’s characters and its audience. But there’s also a musical!

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0:00.0	The Incomparable, number 555, February 2021.
0:09.0	Welcome back, everybody, to The Incomparable.
0:14.0	I'm your host, Jason Snell, and we are continuing our walk through season by season through
0:18.0	my favorite TV show of All Time Buffy, The Vampire Slayer.
0:20.0	We've reached season six, which means I think technically we've moved to UPN.
0:27.5	What is UPN?
0:29.1	It's part of the, like the WB, it's part of the CW now, but they were one separate networks,
0:36.2	and Buffy moved from one to the other
0:37.9	after season five, leaving people who only got the WB, got like on their rabbit ears, on their
0:45.1	TV or something, to think that Buffy just died, and that was the end of the show. But it continued.
0:49.9	They still have Angel. They're all right. Yeah, even though Buffy died, though, they kept making Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
0:55.5	And that'll put Marzapan in your pie plate bingo.
1:00.0	The BuffyBot says, I love that.
1:03.3	Because the Buffy bot's out there trying to be Buffy, but she's not.
1:06.6	Let me introduce my panelists who are going to talk about.
1:09.7	Season 6 with me, Alinems is here. Hello. Hello.
1:15.5	It's going to be interesting. It's going to be interesting. Big size. Gene McDonald. Hello. I'm here to
1:24.8	bring the fun in. I don't care. Okay. Excellent. Excellent. Quinn Rose is here. Hello. Hello. I was a good five minutes into a rant about this season before my partner stopped me and said, didn't you say this was your favorite television show? I was like, it's complicated. It's complicated. And Steve Lutz is here. Hello.
1:44.6	Hello, Jason. It's not a joke. It's complicated. And Steve Lutz is here. Hello. Hello, Jason.
1:45.6	It's not a joke.
1:46.5	It's just my name.
1:47.7	So, Steve,
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