The fifth season of Joss Whedon's hit series started out in excellent form as slayer extraordinaire Buffy Summers (Sarah Michelle Gellar) did battle with the most famous of vampires (that Dracula guy) and then went on to spar with another nemesis, little sister Dawn (Michelle Trachtenberg). Wait--Buffy has a teenage sister? Where has she been the past four years? And why is everyone acting like she's always been around? Turns out that young Dawn is actually "The Key," a form of pure energy that, true to its name, helps open the gates between different dimensions. To protect said key from falling into the wrong hands, a group of monks gave it human form and sent it to the fiercely protective Buffy for safekeeping, creating new memories of Dawn for everyone as if she'd existed... well, always. Why all the super secrecy? There's this very, very, very bad girl named Glory (Clare Kramer) who wants the key very badly, and will do anything to get it. Oh, and by the way, Glory isn't just a run-of-the-mill demon... she's way worse.

Buffy suffering = history tv time

22: Checkpoint = 6.8/10
21: Triangle = 7.0/10
20: Out Of My Mind = 7.2/10
19: I Was Made To Love You = 7.5/10
18: Shadow = 7.8/10
17: Real Me = 8.0/10
16: Buffy vs. Dracula = 8.6/10
15: The Weight Of The World = 8.8/10
14: Spiral = 8.9/10
13: Tough Love = 9.1/10
12: No Place Like Home = 9.3/10
11: Intervention = 9.5/10
10: Family = 9.6/10
09: Listening To Fear = 9.9/10
08: The Replacement = 9.9/10
07: Fool For Love = 10/10
06: Crush = 10/10
05: Blood Ties = 11/10
04: Into The Woods = 13/10
03: Forever = 14/10
02: The Gift = 15/10
01: The Body = 19/10

5 episodes above the 10
this season has some a little weak episodes.
but in jeneral, it's an awsome and sad and wonderful season.
it's so sad and episodes like The Body are so very well acted.
this is when Buffy suffers the most, her boyfriend leaves her, new sibling that's a key, a god mutch sronger than her...and she loses her mother

Excellent Season!

Buffy the Vampire Slayer is one of my favorite television shows I didn't watch it when it first started but one night I turned the televison on and switched the channel and there was an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and I really liked what I saw and became a big fan of this show! The Fifth Season is one of my favorite seasons and all of the episodes are very good but my favorite episodes are The Body and The Gift. Sarah Michelle Gellar, Alyson Hannigan, James Marsters and the rest of the cast are all fantastic and this is the season in which Buffy meets Dracula, mysteriously gets a 14 year old sister named Dawn (That mystery is later revealed) and Buffy has to battle an evil goddess named Glory and I think that Glory was one of the best Big Bads and like The Mayor who was the best Big Bad this show ever had Glory could also be humorous but also having that creepy undertone and this is the season in which Riley who I actually kind of liked in the Fourth Season gets very whiney so I was happy when he left and also this is the year Spike declares his love for Buffy which really freaks her out and I liked this season so much I bought this DVD set and I think that the DVDs are very good and I'm very happy with the quality of the picture and the sound and I liked the extra features and I very highly recommend this DVD boxset!

An original and uniquely entertaining TV series...

The brainchild of writer Joss Whedon, Buffy The Vampire Slayer originally entered American pop culture as a full-length feature film, starring Kristy Swanson, in 1992. But creator Whedon felt that the project never quite did justice to the full scope of his vision, so he managed turn the film into a television series in 1997. The result of Whedon's increased artistic freedom is a series that has enjoyed both critical acclaim and audience notoriety. Nominated for 14 Emmy's during its seven year run, the show managed to win only two (both in 1998 for Outstanding Makeup and Outstanding Music Composition in a television series). Yet, the true success for Buffy The Vampire Slayer is indicated by the massive success of the show's long run, strong DVD sales, and the overwhelming success of the series spin-off Angel...

Sarah Michelle Gellar plays the title role of Buffy Anne Summers, a teenage girl who stands alone among her generation as the "chosen one" able to "stand against vampires, demons, and the forces of darkness. She is the Slayer..." But Buffy is not alone in fulfilling her destiny as a slayer of vampires. She also receives help from the high school librarian, Rupert Giles (Anthony Stewart Head), who is a Watcher - the one chosen to train and guide slayers on their developmental path. In addition, new friends Willow Rosenberg (Alyson Hannigan - of American Pie fame) and Xander Harris (Nicholas Brendon) quickly uncover the truth of Buffy's destiny, and they often aid her in defending the world against evil forces...

The Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Season 5) DVD offers a number of exciting episodes including the season premiere "Buffy vs. Dracula" in which Giles decides to leave Sunnydale believing that Buffy no longer needs him. But when Buffy runs into a vampire who claims to be Dracula (and he exhibits powers far beyond the scope of most vampires), she and Xander are forced to work together to slay him. In so doing, Dracula reveals that Buffy's powers derive from a source of evil, thus stoking the curiosity of Buffy who enlists Giles' help in studying the nature of the Slayer (as a result, he stays in Sunnydale)... Other notable episodes from Season 5 include "The Replacement" in which a demon's spell splits Xander into two versions of himself (one with all his positive attributes, one with all of his negative), and "Triangle" in which Willow and Anya accidentally conjure a troll which runs around Sunnydale leaving a path of destruction in its wake...

Below is a list of episodes included on the Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Season 5) DVD:

Episode 79 (Buffy vs. Dracula)
Episode 80 (Real Me)
Episode 81 (The Replacement)
Episode 82 (Out of My Mind)
Episode 83 (No Place Like Home)
Episode 84 (Family)
Episode 85 (Fool for Love)
Episode 86 (Shadow)
Episode 87 (Listening to Fear)
Episode 88 (Into the Woods)
Episode 89 (Triangle)
Episode 90 (Checkpoint)
Episode 91 (Blood Ties)
Episode 92 (Crush)
Episode 93 (I Was Made to Love You)
Episode 94 (The Body)
Episode 95 (Forever)
Episode 96 (Intervention)
Episode 97 (Tough Love)
Episode 98 (Spiral)
Episode 99 (The Weight of the World)
Episode 100 (The Gift)

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