Buffy Season One Episode Nine

[koganbot]

Observers find old Catskill comic wooden.

Also, policeman is briefly glimpsed in vicinity of body of murdered dancer, possibly investigating. Sousaphone player attributes her own indifference to dancer to "that whole dance/band rivalry." New authority figure looks like an older version of Eliot Spitzer.

Ho hum.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

i don't have a mental timeline of when it happens, but i think the rough strategy the show adopts here is to suggest, with brief scenes as you suggest, that the town's authority figures like the principal and the mayor and perhaps the cops are used to weird things happening which they sweep under the rug. sometimes the suggestion is that the citizens would freak out, and especially once the mayor storyline starts up, the stronger suggestion is that minor authority figures kowtow to the mayor. but we rarely see anyone covering up supernatural/unnatural hijinks for motives other than 'gotta keep the important people happy', 'gotta hide this mess from the citizens', or 'the mayor or his minions will kill you', and those are rarely linked together in any way that gives a clear picture of what the motivations of the corrupt authorities could be when they're not very much in the know (like the principal for quite some time, it seems).

in all that, though, cops still play an incredibly minor role. whedonco did pick up those themes in s01 of angel, though, putting angel in the vigilante position vis-a-vis his mulderized police counterpart.

s01 of dollhouse makes me think that the whole crew don't really have their feet where law enforcement stuff is concerned.

[(Anonymous)]

forgot:


j.