TV Garlic

New at Reason: Virginia Postrel seeks the true meaning of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Comments

[fyodor]

Admit it, you only print or link to Postrel to get a rise out of koppelman!!!

[Kenny Bishop]

In this piece, Virginia Postrel (whose work, "Enemies of the Future" I admired) seeks to reify the so-called horrors of today's world, using a televised metaphor. But it ain't necessarily so. Life doesn't necessarily imitate art, or, in this case, a vampire slayer.

[Douglas Fletcher]

This reminds me of when Camille Paglia goes off about how important Madonna is to modern culture. I grant that both Virginia and Camille are brilliant minds but sometimes you can read too much into crap culture -- Marvel comics, anyone? I don't think Buffy is any different from many genre heroes, i.e, she tries to maintain a normal life while at the same time struggling to fight the forces of evil. Christ, Joe Friday had that much going for him.

[Lefty]

Now we know where the "axis of evil" concept came from.

[s.m. koppelman]

And only four months too late to sell as a column! Good thing the crew at Reason is amenable to publishing its former editor's stale crusts.

[Anonymous]

The people that dismiss the column do so for the wrong reasons. Obviously, you are not fans of the show and I doubt if you've spent sufficient time watching to understand its depth.

The column falls short in its analogy and is a bit flat all around. But the show has many more layers more than a mere piece of pop culture and bubble gum drama.

[Anonymous]

S.M.: The article appeared two months ago in the print edition.

[Franklin Harris]

Douglas, "crap culture" is where the action is, and it always has been.

[Douglas Fletcher]

Depends on what you mean it is.

[Jean Bart]

Having watched every episode through season four I have to agree with Douglas Fletcher; she reads far too much into this.

BTW, Angel is a much better series IMHO than Buffy is. The level of whining and whimpering is much lower than in Buffy.

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