Buffy's legacy

[Tonguez]

Terminator:Sarah Conner Chronicles had 2 female leads who overshadowed the male lead

Then you have the whole change in TV genre which gives us things like Desperate Housewives, Sex in the City, Revenge, Cougar Town etc. They have strong female characters and female friendly storylines anc are better suited to the tv format


Xena, Buffy, Dark Angel and its ilk were innovative for bringin movie sensibilities to the small screen but the genre is one b better suited for cinema...

 

[Umbran]

Buffy was popular but it wasn't what it is now. It was a hit for the WB, but never their top show and was often overshadowed by Dawson's Creek and 7th Heaven (and, to a lesser extent, Charmed). It took a while before it really started getting mainstream attention.

It took a while? One half season. It started as WB's #6 show, based on 12 episodes. It jumped to #3 in the second year - an average of five million viewers per episode, and stayed in the #2 or #3 slot for the network it was on five years, even through a switch of network.

Was it competing with shows on the Big 4? No, of course, not.

 

[trappedslider]

Article on the BBC.

Buffy's biggest legacy is.....http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePage

 

[Kramodlog]

Aren't they all the legacy of Ripley from Alien?

 

[Tonguez]

Aren't they all the legacy of Ripley from Alien?

You could argue for Linda Carters Wonder Woman being earlier and perhaps Lt Uhuru and Emma Peel of the Avengers before that. Of course WW stands out as being the title character of the show...

 

[sabrinathecat]

Buffy was big enough that UPN wanted it enough to buy it out from under WB by paying Joss more than he could turn down.
Depends which version of Wonder-woman.
Ripley was more of a survivor chick in the first movie, and then a tough-as-nails but still maternal in the second one.

Buffy also picked up the idea of season arcs from Babylon 5 and brought it back to more mainstream non-soap opera dramas.
Now, that's old hat, and abused to the point of the stupid arcs that Moffat forces onto Doctor Who.

 

[Kramodlog]

Buffy was big enough that UPN wanted it enough to buy it out from under WB by paying Joss more than he could turn down.
Depends which version of Wonder-woman.
Ripley was more of a survivor chick in the first movie, and then a tough-as-nails but still maternal in the second one.

Buffy also picked up the idea of season arcs from Babylon 5 and brought it back to more mainstream non-soap opera dramas.
Now, that's old hat, and abused to the point of the stupid arcs that Moffat forces onto Doctor Who.

You're saying Babylon 5 invented season arcs?

 

[jasper]

No B5 was one the first scific series with preplanned and written season arcs. Which then allowed/made acceptable other scific shows to have season arcs.

 

[Morrus]

No B5 was one the first scific series with preplanned and written season arcs. Which then allowed/made acceptable other scific shows to have season arcs.

Doctor Who was doing season arcs in the 1960s. I think B5 is better known for the entire 5-year *series* arc, which I can't recall a sci-fi series doing before it.

 

[sabrinathecat]

Doctor Who was doing season arcs in the 1960s.

Um, really? Can you name one?
Key to Time was late 70s.
Trial of a Time Lord was mid 80s, and a huge portion of the fan base at the time found disappointing.