Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Myth, Metaphor & Morality
Language: English
Pages: 868
ISBN: B00BKPAJI2
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Collected essays covering each episode of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
American Remakes of British Television: Transformations and Mistranslations
Stephen J. Cannell Television Productions: A History of All Series and Pilots
Esmerelda. WILLOW: They could have the wedding right there. Beneath the very bell-tower where he labored thanklessly for all those years. “TARA: No, see, it can't, it can't end like that, 'cause all of Quasimodo's actions were selfishly motivated. He had no moral compass, no understanding of right. Everything he did, he did out of love for a woman who would never be able to love him back. Also, you can tell it's not gonna have a happy ending when the main guy's all bumpy.” The problem is,
stealing to support her sudden “habit”, and multiple clichés such as Willow in the shower trying to wash her soul clean. I know a lot of people were turned off by the seemingly relentless dark tone of the show at this point. The dark tone even inspired a book title: Buffy Goes Dark. That didn’t (and doesn’t) bother me, but I don’t have anything particularly good to say about Wrecked. It’s one of my least favorite episodes in the series, since I think it suffers from clunky dialogue (“meat party
on a dubious course. Of course, if Buffy’s supposed to be the General, as Giles insists in their conversation, then it’s hard to explain how her chief lieutenant is conspiring behind her back. For a sense of just how controversial this got, here are two sides of the debate on the quality of Buffy’s Generalship: Malandanza: “I think there was significant good to come out of the episode -- we got to see more of the evolution of General Buffy. At the start of the episode, we saw people making
clue to Buffy’s intuitive solution in Chosen. Two quick points about the paralleled love scenes with Heather Nova’s “Only Love” playing in the background. Not surprisingly, Joss had to fight to get Standards & Practices to permit the Willow/Kennedy sex scene. It was, AFAIK, the first lesbian sex scene ever shown on network TV. Since you all know that I don’t mind Kennedy but that mine is a distinct minority view, I’ll let Masq give her verdict on that scene: “I think we all wish that when a
of spoilers, but I will say that the theme of this episode fits right in with the most important seasonal theme. And there’s a very good reason why this episode appears at this particular point in the season. I need to add that “Rules change” is a great moment. Trivia notes: (1) Buffy read in voiceover from Jack London’s The Call of the Wild. If you haven’t read it, the story involves a dog raised in civilization but taken to a brutal environment in Alaska. The dog is able to survive only by