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Buffy Studies

I've never claimed to have my finger on the pulse of pop culture. I tend to avoid touching it because you never know what you might catch. But after enduring all the hype that surrounded The End of Buffy, whenever that was, and seeing TV shows come out on DVD, it seemed, if not exactly inevitable, but, well, if it sucks we just send it back. This DVD-thingy is a good way to watch TV shows, although we tend to yell "Commercial!" at every fade to black.

Oh, and it's addictive, like brain candy.

Oz points out, "The episodes are only 45 minutes long."

"Yeah, but you can't watch just one."

Thanks to lo the many hours of indoctrination in my youth, I really like the Young Adult (YA) story structure as it works in novels. (I was the girl whose parents limited the number of books she could check out of the library at once by refusing to help carry them. I went through fifteen or sixteen books a week.) They utilized the YA genre fiction structure perfectly for this show. If you don't know what I mean, read something by Diana Wynne Jones and you will. Anyway, all through engineering school I've been resting my brain with YA novels and now it seems that I can partake in video form.

I'll still get all my homework done. I can stop watching any time.

235 words | February 8, 2005 09:56 PM | Real true story