God, what a ride.
Seven years is a long time to love something and I, for one, am proud that I will be crying very real tears when Buffy the Vampire Slayer comes to an end. People who have never been grasped by the power of truly good writing will call it corny, but that's because they don't understand that when a show has characters so well developed, plot lines so incredibly gripping and realistic, and writing so...damn good...seeing it end is like losing a friend.
Nope-- not a typo. I just used 'realistic' to describe Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Let me explain. Normally, when you watch a drama, you are asked to take a bunch of leaps of faith and suspend a few beliefs to make things gel. We are asked to believe that characters would stay friends after horrible betrayals, that no one would quit a job after they dated ALL of their co-workers, and that when life at an apartment building seems to breed nothing but infidelity, insanity, and pain that no one would simply move out. This has never been the case with Buffy. Joss Whedon looks us in the eye and says "grant me vampires, and I'll make everything else stick". Allow the existence of the superntural for an hour a week, and you'll never want for consistency or realism in any other facet of the show. He has created a world in which the rules may have changed, but within that world, everything else makes so much sense.
And I'll let you in on one more secret: It's not about vampires. It's about everything else. The lives of the people on the show aren't hard because they live on a hellmouth; they are hard because they live on earth. The Scooby gang can handle an apocalypse. But no one was given any supernatural powers to get through everyday life. Buffy is lucky because she gets to fight the literal manifestations of the demons we all have to fight, and the ability to deliver such a brilliant and well done metaphor is one of the things that makes Joss a genius.
And we'll miss it. It may be time to go, but we'll still miss it. It's like a break-up when one person just moves away: It never got bad, so you'll always remember it being perfect, and you never get over those break-ups. So here's to that perfection. Here's to every hilarious pop-culture reference, here's to Buffy and Angel, here's to the Scooby Gang, here's to the surprise of first meeting Kendra, here's to every big bad, here's to that deliciously sick feeling you still get when you here "Full of Grace", here's to Tara, here's to the musical, here's to Joyce, here's to first and last loves, here's to the man with the cheese slices, here's to friendships that stood the test of time and the end of the world...over and over again, here's to Jenny Calendar, here's to the yellow crayon that saved the world, here's to Joss. Here's to Buffy Anne Summers. She saved the world a lot.
Seven years is a long time to love something and I, for one, am proud that I will be crying very real tears when Buffy the Vampire Slayer comes to an end. People who have never been grasped by the power of truly good writing will call it corny, but that's because they don't understand that when a show has characters so well developed, plot lines so incredibly gripping and realistic, and writing so...damn good...seeing it end is like losing a friend.
Nope-- not a typo. I just used 'realistic' to describe Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Let me explain. Normally, when you watch a drama, you are asked to take a bunch of leaps of faith and suspend a few beliefs to make things gel. We are asked to believe that characters would stay friends after horrible betrayals, that no one would quit a job after they dated ALL of their co-workers, and that when life at an apartment building seems to breed nothing but infidelity, insanity, and pain that no one would simply move out. This has never been the case with Buffy. Joss Whedon looks us in the eye and says "grant me vampires, and I'll make everything else stick". Allow the existence of the superntural for an hour a week, and you'll never want for consistency or realism in any other facet of the show. He has created a world in which the rules may have changed, but within that world, everything else makes so much sense.
And I'll let you in on one more secret: It's not about vampires. It's about everything else. The lives of the people on the show aren't hard because they live on a hellmouth; they are hard because they live on earth. The Scooby gang can handle an apocalypse. But no one was given any supernatural powers to get through everyday life. Buffy is lucky because she gets to fight the literal manifestations of the demons we all have to fight, and the ability to deliver such a brilliant and well done metaphor is one of the things that makes Joss a genius.
And we'll miss it. It may be time to go, but we'll still miss it. It's like a break-up when one person just moves away: It never got bad, so you'll always remember it being perfect, and you never get over those break-ups. So here's to that perfection. Here's to every hilarious pop-culture reference, here's to Buffy and Angel, here's to the Scooby Gang, here's to the surprise of first meeting Kendra, here's to every big bad, here's to that deliciously sick feeling you still get when you here "Full of Grace", here's to Tara, here's to the musical, here's to Joyce, here's to first and last loves, here's to the man with the cheese slices, here's to friendships that stood the test of time and the end of the world...over and over again, here's to Jenny Calendar, here's to the yellow crayon that saved the world, here's to Joss. Here's to Buffy Anne Summers. She saved the world a lot.
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