I'm brunette (and also want to be a redhead) but beyond that you sound scarily like me. Were we separated at birth, maybe?

And I'm with you all the way on S6. Not objectively the best season (in terms of plotting, pacing, etc) but the one I felt and feel most deeply. I had to watch nvrbnkisst's video "Feels like Home and read gabrielleabelle's Buffy Came Back Wrong metas immediately after finishing the season just to be able to help process it. My initial response was "What the hell did I just see and how do I feel about it?" Which was my response to the two films that hit me the hardest emotionally when I first saw them: The Piano and the Hours. The things that really, really matter to me emotionally, whether film, tv, a painting, etc, are things that are difficult for me to get ahold of, to wrap my mind around. A simple "love it/like it/hate it" response isn't sufficient.