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Buffy Summers, a high school sophomore, transfers to Sunnydale High. There she meets her new "Watcher" and learns she cannot escape her true destiny. The Harvest. In an effort to inject some normalcy into her life, Buffy tries out for the cheerleading squad--only to discover the competition wants her dead. Teacher's Pet. Xander falls for a beautiful substitute teacher who is actually a She-Mantis intent on mating with, then decapitating, virginal boys.
While awaiting the arrival of the warrior vampire called the Anointed One, Buffy's big date at the Bronze ends with an assault on a funeral home. The Pack. A field trip to the zoo turns deadly after Xander and a clique of mean-spirited kids become possessed by the spirit of a demonic breed of hyena. A moment of passion turns to terror as Buffy discovers Angel's true identity and learns about the Gypsy curse that has haunted him for almost years. Critics hailed it, placing it in the No.
It received major awards recognition, including an Emmy nomination for its writing. And when it moved to UPN in its sixth season — because UPN was willing to pay a higher licensing fee than The WB — it helped reestablish that network as well, paving the way for later Buffy -alikes such as Veronica Mars.
The show was clearly in love with language, with arranging words in unexpected ways and delighting in the fizzy alchemy of the resulting scripts. Take the moment in season one when Buffy goes up against ancient vampire the Master and full-on drown s , but is resuscitated by Xander to defeat him. It might seem weird to modern audiences, but Buffy , despite fighting a monster of the week in nearly every episode, was considered a heavily serialized show when it debuted in And it only became more serialized as it progressed, especially in seasons six and seven, when it prioritized grand, complicated arcs at the expense of episodic coherency.
Every season of the venerable monster-hunting show Supernatural , now in its 12th season, uses this model. Lost used it too, but broke its overarching story into smaller pieces and swapped primary objectives getting off the Island, etc. Probably not. But the format is present even in non-genre shows, from Scandal to Justified. Each season, some major crisis or villain dominates the storytelling, and every episode reflects on it somehow, sometimes in a major way and sometimes in a much more minor one.
And his debt to Marvel shines throughout the show, particularly in its wildly inventive plot twists. Characters on Buffy are never one thing. They all flirt with evil. Sometimes they actually become evil. They float in and out of relationships, have their hearts broken, and emerge stronger in the end. That sister turned out to be the center of a massive magical conspiracy, of course.
From the beginning, Whedon envisioned a structure for Buffy that at the time breached a whole new frontier for TV but has since became something of an assumed routine. Every week, Buffy and her friends ran up against monsters that would in some way tie into the struggles they were facing in their own lives.
People who felt invisible might literally become invisible. Seductive preying mantises might make a teenage guy feel less lonely. When Buffy lost her virginity to Angel in season two, his immediate transformation into an evil version of himself made the omnipresent reality of men who turn on a dime once they sleep with someone searingly literal.
And when the world felt like it was ending For Whedon, this came from wanting to make a high school show in which the horrors of being a teen came to terrifying life, but could be defeated by the end of the episode.
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