Buffy Season One Episode Five
May. 24th, 2009 09:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Saw this three days ago. What I remember most is that Sarah Michelle Gellar came through as an actress. She was required to be all flustered when the handsome brooding boy asked her out for a date, and she was required to ache convincingly when demon fighting interfered with her love life. In fact, I thought the conflict was written rather clumsily - Nikita did this much more pointedly - but I was feeling it as I was watching it.
Still don't think the show has done enough in creating either its world or its relationships. So far it relies on conventions regarding high schools rather than bringing the high school to life, and this is why it bothers me that police don't show up to investigate murders and students don't show up to screw around in or take books out of a library, except when suddenly the plot demands it. If you don't create your world then conventions are what you've got. Hewing to conventions for cheerleaders and dating but inexplicably ignoring them for libraries and murder investigations makes the latter stick out. If you do the work of creating your world, you can create your own conventions. Like in WKRP In Cincinnati it made perfect sense that receptionist was the highest paid position at the station. Anyway, we'll see how this develops, and you guys have promised me that explanations will appear, eventually.
(Double-checking the spelling of "Gellar," I typed "Sarah" into the Google box, and the sixth suggestion down was "Sarah Michelle Gellar." "Sarah Palin" was first and "Sarah Connor Chronicles" second, whatever "Sarah Connor Chronicles" is. (Well, a quick Wiki and now I know...))
Still don't think the show has done enough in creating either its world or its relationships. So far it relies on conventions regarding high schools rather than bringing the high school to life, and this is why it bothers me that police don't show up to investigate murders and students don't show up to screw around in or take books out of a library, except when suddenly the plot demands it. If you don't create your world then conventions are what you've got. Hewing to conventions for cheerleaders and dating but inexplicably ignoring them for libraries and murder investigations makes the latter stick out. If you do the work of creating your world, you can create your own conventions. Like in WKRP In Cincinnati it made perfect sense that receptionist was the highest paid position at the station. Anyway, we'll see how this develops, and you guys have promised me that explanations will appear, eventually.
(Double-checking the spelling of "Gellar," I typed "Sarah" into the Google box, and the sixth suggestion down was "Sarah Michelle Gellar." "Sarah Palin" was first and "Sarah Connor Chronicles" second, whatever "Sarah Connor Chronicles" is. (Well, a quick Wiki and now I know...))