Buffy Season One Episode Two: Suspension Of Disbelief Not Fully Achieved

[koganbot]

(1) Why doesn't Buffy get more scared?
(2) Why do she and her gang need to keep this all a secret? (Still not explained.)
(3) Absence of cops not yet explained either. Obviously Buffy and crew won't call 'em, but kids who are being attacked in dance clubs would. (And hey, this was maybe 12 years ago, but cell phones existed, and so did worried parents.)
(4) Don't, like, any other students use the library?
(5) Angel WTF?

(Please, no spoilers in comments.)

Comments

[cis.livejournal.com]

in my experience of being a teenager, kids who were e.g. mugged in the street on the way back from a dance club would explicitly not tell their parents because it would lead to going-out privileges being taken away for their own protection, which is even worse than being grounded.

[koganbot]

Er, this is not very convincing, even if you phrase your opening sentence "the vast majority of kids who were mugged." It has to be 100 percent, and in this instance it has to be 100 percent of youngsters who watched someone apparently being murdered on stage in a dance club but who don't mention this to any authority figure whatsoever. But anyway, in Episode One a dead body is found in a school locker, and not only is there no cop presence, and no investigation, this leads to no change in the school routine.

My provisional theory is, "No time/room in script to provide explanation, and Whedon et al. are hoping that viewers won't be anal or literal or trivial enough to give a shit about the missing cops."