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Buffy Season Two Episode Twenty
Nov. 6th, 2009 01:40 pmAh, this is a refreshing change of pace, a thoroughly mediocre episode. There was a nice exchange, though:
"You you you. What about me? It's one thing to be dating the lame unpopular guy. It's another to be dating the creature from the blue lagoon."
"Black lagoon. The creature from the blue lagoon was Brooke Shields."
( Cordelia watch )
The rest of the episode involved so-what monster transformations, a boring villain with obvious motivation you could see miles away, and some correct but boringly done swipes at jock privilege and date rape, almost no emotional resonance. Felt like hack TV, really. But it did get me thinking even more about the Cordy role, which is the most problematic, and about the show's neglecting to give the school an underlying social fabric. Buffy The Vampire Slayer isn't about the school's social fabric, so the neglect isn't debilitating, but I wish Whedon and his colleagues had nonetheless given the fabric more thought, worked out a deep social background they could draw on. So under the cut we go for speculations and wishful thinking.
( Cordy and the missing social landscape )
( An Artist Of Style )
( The social canvas reimagined )
"You you you. What about me? It's one thing to be dating the lame unpopular guy. It's another to be dating the creature from the blue lagoon."
"Black lagoon. The creature from the blue lagoon was Brooke Shields."
( Cordelia watch )
The rest of the episode involved so-what monster transformations, a boring villain with obvious motivation you could see miles away, and some correct but boringly done swipes at jock privilege and date rape, almost no emotional resonance. Felt like hack TV, really. But it did get me thinking even more about the Cordy role, which is the most problematic, and about the show's neglecting to give the school an underlying social fabric. Buffy The Vampire Slayer isn't about the school's social fabric, so the neglect isn't debilitating, but I wish Whedon and his colleagues had nonetheless given the fabric more thought, worked out a deep social background they could draw on. So under the cut we go for speculations and wishful thinking.
( Cordy and the missing social landscape )
( An Artist Of Style )
( The social canvas reimagined )
