One further attractive thing about 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' is how well its basic moral messages pander to my basically conservative prejudices:
*Messing with occult forces leads to tragedy and death.
*Smoking leads to tragedy and death. [Smokers are either (a) monsters, or (b) kids who go down the basement to smoke and are eaten by monsters.]
*Lying to your parents (or other authority figures) ends in tragedy and death.
*Premarital sex ends in tragedy and death.
*Underage drinking ends in tragedy and death.
*Staying out late ends in tragedy and death.
*Living in California ends in tragedy and death.
Dave alluded to the relevance of Buffy to our so-called 'troubled times' in his comment on the first Buffy post, which reminds me of another conservative prejudice it panders to (but not one I share, which is why it missed this list):
ReplyDelete"Our enemies are irrevocably and totally evil to the core and should be exterminated without mercy."