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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Edena_of_Neith" data-source="post: 343573" data-attributes="member: 2020">Buffy, as a series, has now reached my definition of a 6 (mildly good.)  Initially, it was a 4, but it's been improving steadily, and it still is.  Now, remember, that's my opinion, not the actual truth of the matter - how good or bad the series is has nothing to do with what I think!  The reason I am liking Buffy for the first time is because the actress is growing up, and the series is growing up with her - in this case, there is an actual parallel between Real Life and Fantasy.  As the actress grows up, her character grows up.  As this happens, more and more mature themes crop up in the series, and these are more appealing to me than the themes appropriate to an adolescent girl.  - - -  Anyways, now that I've offended everyone who likes Buffy and the series ...  There is ONE thing I REALLY like about Buffy.  In a world where females are always running from danger, Buffy isn't.  Yeah, yeah, I know that you see females not running - in sci-fi shows and films, and in other special cases - but Buffy is just an ordinary GIRL, not a superheroine, or an army specialist, or someone from another planet, or ... etc, etc.  Nor is Buffy a girl who walks into danger, and then the obligatory male shows up to save her when the going gets rough.  I liked Buffy's latest quote:  I will hunt them.  I will find out who they are.  Then, I will kill them.  But this is no psychopathic girl, no test result from an army experiment or genetic lab, or the result of a freak sequence of events.  This is just a GIRL.  A girl, who actually behaves like a girl (when she is allowed to!), and who wants to be ... just a girl!  She doesn't like killing.  She doesn't like combat.  She doesn't like danger.  She doesn't like any of this kind of stuff, any more than any average, normal person would like it.  But she WILL kill.  She will fight.  She will walk into danger.    She goes alone, most of the time, and does not thus drag her friends into danger.  She stands toe to toe against her enemies, takes her licks, and she wins.  So maybe all that adolescent stuff, is actually a really good thing after all, and what I said above is not appropriate - for all that adolescent stuff helps make Buffy a girl, a human being, not some superperson.  Gods, it gets tiring to see shows depicting girls running from danger, running to men for help, screaming for help - I mean, that may be realistic (I'm a male, and ... I ... try to run from dangerous situations!) but ... it gets old after 70 years of such fare.  Buffy not only does not run, she deliberately goes right in there to give battle to the foe.  Her job, that - to carry war to the enemy.  She is the Slayer.  The Slayer - the one who kills Vampires and contests with other Netherworld forces.  And if Buffy is solemn, and oftentimes bitter, sad, and morbid, I can understand that.  If she resents the normal life she cannot have because she is stuck being the Slayer, I can understand that.  And if she is tired of killing and battle, of constant danger and constant stress, I can understand that!  I do believe Buffy the Vampire Slayer may become one of my more favored shows before too long.  If it keeps going in the direction it's going - after all, the actress is getting older - I think it might became a favorite show of mine.  Edelaith</blockquote>

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