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A Buffy Question
Apr. 9th, 2008 01:11 pmSo I have this friend who thinks that Chosen crapped all over the basic idea of Buffy. His argument is thus:
"In every generation there is a Chosen One. She alone will stand against the vampires, the demons, and the forces of darkness..."
This setup for the series is blown all to hell when there are two Slayers on every corner- never mind that "one girl in all the world" went away in season, well, two. Chosen is certainly a big change to the mythology. I really think the themes kind of force it, though.
I certainly went through a moment of duh-piphany where I said, wait a minute, life sucked for a lot of people in high school, not just me. My problems are not unique and special, they're just mine. And I had that moment in my late teens, about two years after I left high school. :) I think many of us have that moment. So if the basic idea of Buffy started out as "high school is hell", isn't Chosen kind of the ending you have to have?
"In every generation there is a Chosen One. She alone will stand against the vampires, the demons, and the forces of darkness..."
This setup for the series is blown all to hell when there are two Slayers on every corner- never mind that "one girl in all the world" went away in season, well, two. Chosen is certainly a big change to the mythology. I really think the themes kind of force it, though.
I certainly went through a moment of duh-piphany where I said, wait a minute, life sucked for a lot of people in high school, not just me. My problems are not unique and special, they're just mine. And I had that moment in my late teens, about two years after I left high school. :) I think many of us have that moment. So if the basic idea of Buffy started out as "high school is hell", isn't Chosen kind of the ending you have to have?
