Buffy Season 6 UPN promos
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A series of Buffy Season 6 UPN promos were aired by UPN to promote Buffy the Vampire Slayer in 2001. These clips hold interest for fans because unlike most other promos these featured the actors playing in character without resorting to using footage from the material being promoted. Thus the promos make up part of the fictional universe known as the Buffyverse.
Content and analysis
- :The promos are available for download below
- Anya (1) - "If she was here right now, I know she'd tell us how proud she is of us. She'd say 'Yay, You guys. Fighting evil without me' That's what she'd say. You know... if her vocal cords aren't all decomposed and stuff."
- Anya (2) - "Death is stupid. You plummet off a tower, and that's it. It's shocking and I don't like it."
- ::Anya had already recently experienced death in "The Body" where for the first time, she emotionally came to an understanding of what mortality meant. Here Anya has moved on from grief.
- Dawn (1) - "My sister died saving the world... saving me. Who's gonna save us now?"
- ::Dawn is referencing events that happened in "The Gift", Buffy jumped from the pillar to save Dawn.
- Dawn (2) - "All my life, one person has kept me safe in Sunnydale. But she's gone. Now it's up to me to stay alive".
- ::Dawn seems to place value on her own life likely due to the events of "The Gift", where Dawn's life was saved at the cost to Buffy's life.
- Spike (1) - "Knew this girl once, not like me at all. They say the good die young, they weren't lying. "
- ::This simple statement contains considerable foreshadowing. Spike implies that because he has lived a long time, he is not 'good'. He says that Buffy is not like him, suggesting he believes she is human, and fundamentally good. However when Buffy returns, she is not quite human, Spike later discovers he can hurt her despite his implant which prevents him causing injury to humans. Furthermore Spike finds a darkness in her that is not unlike his own, and the two embark on a sexually violent relationship.
- Spike (2) - "It hurts when I think about her, but soon I'm not going to be the only one, 'cause without her, all hell is going to break loose."
- Willow - "Even in high school she warned me, she told me she'd die young. I never believed her, until now."
- Xander (1) - "The Slayer is dead. Everybody else... We're next."
- ::Xander looks into the future of the Scoobies. He later tells Dawn in "Potential", that because he has no powers of his own, he is the one that "sees everything". Ironically Caleb takes an eye from him in "Dirty Girls",
- Xander (2) - "We live on a Hellmouth and we're down one slayer. If my calculations are correct, we're in big-ass trouble."
Production details
Buffy the Vampire Slayer aired for Seasons 1-5 on the WB network. After five seasons WB lost a bidding war to continue airing the show. The final episode of Season 5, "The Gift" featured Buffy Summers dying. However the show was transferring to the United Paramount Network (UPN) for its final two seasons. UPN produced promotional clips of individual members of the Scooby Gang commenting on recent fictional events in character. The promotional clips aired until the airing of the sixth season opener on October 2, 2001, "Bargaining, Part One".
Continuity
Canonical issues
Timing
- These all take place shortly before the episode Bargaining I
- Buffyverse stories taking place around these times:
| Location, time (if known) | Buffyverse chronology: Fall 2001 - December 2001 (non-canon = italic) |
|---|---|
| L.A., 2001 | Buffy/Angel novel: Cursed (Buffy/Angel novel)>Cursed |
| L.A., 2001 | A3.01 Heartthrob (Angel episode)>Heartthrob |
| Sunnydale, 2001 | Buffy UPN promos: Buffy Season 6 UPN promos>Scooby Gang talk about Buffy |
| Sunnydale, 2001 | B6.01 Bargaining, Part One (Buffy episode)>Bargaining, I |
| Sunnydale, 2001 | B6.02 Bargaining, Part Two (Buffy episode)>Bargaining, II |
| L.A., 2001 | A3.02 That Vision Thing (Angel episode)>That Vision Thing |
| Sunnydale, 2001 | B6.03 After Life (Buffy episode)>After Life |
| L.A., 2001 | Angel book: Sanctuary (Angel novel)>Sanctuary |
| L.A., 2001 | A3.03 That Old Gang of Mine (Angel episode)>That Old Gang of Mine |
| Sunnydale, 2001 | B6.04 Flooded (Buffy episode)>Flooded |
| L.A., 2001 | A3.04 Carpe Noctem (Angel episode)>Carpe Noctem |
| Sunnydale, 2001 | Buffy comic: Reunion (Buffy comic)>Reunion |
| Sunnydale, 2001 | B6.05 Life Serial (Buffy episode)>Life Serial |
| L.A., 2001 | A3.05 Fredless (Angel episode)>Fredless |
| Sunnydale, 2001 | Buffy graphic novel |
| Sunnydale, 2001 | Buffy book: Blood and Fog (Buffy novel)>Blood and Fog |
| Sunnydale, 2001 | B6.06 All the Way (Buffy episode)>All the Way |
| Sunnydale, 2001 | Buffy graphic novel: Note from the Underground (Buffy comic)>Note from the Underground |
| L.A., 2001 | A3.06 Billy (Angel episode)>Billy |
| L.A., 2001 | Angel anthology book:The Longest Night (Angel novel)>The Longest Night |
| Sunnydale, L.A., Monster Island, 2001 | Buffy/Angel novel: Monster Island (Buffy/Angel novel)>Monster Island |
| L.A., 2001 | Angel book: Endangered Species (Angel novel)>Endangered Species |
| L.A., 2001 | Angel book: Impressions (Angel novel)>Impressions |
| Sunnydale, 2001 | B6.07 Once More, with Feeling (Buffy episode)>Once More, with Feeling |
| L.A., 2001 | A3.07 Offspring (Angel episode)>Offspring |
| Sunnydale, 2001 | B6.08 Tabula Rasa (Buffy episode)>Tabula Rasa |
| L.A., 2001 | A3.08 Quickening (Angel episode)>Quickening |
| Sunnydale, 2001 | B6.09 Smashed (Buffy episode)>Smashed |
| L.A., 2001 | A3.09 Lullaby (Angel episode)>Lullaby |
| Sunnydale, 2001 | B6.10 Wrecked (Buffy episode)>Wrecked |
| L.A., 2001 | A3.10 Dad (Angel episode)>Dad |
| Sunnydale, 2001 | B6.11 Gone (Buffy episode)>Gone |
| L.A., 2001 | A3.11 Birthday (Angel episode)>Birthday |
| Sunnydale, 2001 | Buffy graphic novel: Creatures of Habit (Buffy comic)>Creatures of Habit |
| Sunnydale, 2001 | Buffy graphic novel: |
| Sunnydale, 2001 | B6.12 Doublemeat Palace (Buffy episode)>Doublemeat Palace |
| L.A., 2001 | A3.12 Provider (Angel episode)>Provider |
See also
Buffyverse oddities
- In chronological order of Buffyverse continuity:
- History of the Slayer
- Unaired Buffy pilot
- Lydia Chalmer's "Thesis on William the Bloody"
- Christmas Buffy promo
- Corrupt (unaired Angel episode)
- Unaired Angel pilot
- Buffy Season 6 UPN promos: Scooby Gang talk about Buffy
External links
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Information
Parody (5MB avi file)
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