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Great review. S6 is and will forever remain my favorite season of the series, and your review does a great job of illustrating why.
I do have a question, though: where did you get the idea that Willow's character arc and her addiction to magic is based on a hunger for power? There is nowhere - that I can find, anyway - in any of the previous seasons where this is even implied. The one defining factor in Willow's arc in this season and in previous seasons is insecurity, not some suppressed desire for power.