Scholars Lecture on'Buffy' Show (questions of morality and evil at stake)

AP ^ | 5-28-04 | Karin Miller

[zeugma]

I really think that BTVS was one of the smartest shows on TV for quite a while. They covered a lot of topics in a thoughtful way that you rarely see on TV. I'm really suprised that "The Body" didn't win some kind of TV award, as it was really extraordinary IMO.

[jocon307]

"Buffy's mom was a great, very likeable, character..."

Yes, she really was, and the way she'd get aggravated with Buffy, I relate to that more and more as my own daughter advances through adolescence.

They really made a believable mother/daughter pair. Not quite up to the absolute gold standard set by Agnes Moorehead and Elizabeth Montgomery on "Bewitched", but very true to life.

[GreatOne]

I had the same feeling as both of you about the lesbian b.s. they pushed on the show. I used to get into huge flame wars on the AICN website about this, and I was happy as a clam when they killed off Tara. For the final season, the forcing of a 2nd lesbian relationship was so blatant that even the liberals were acknowledging its stupidity. Aside from "Once More With Feeling" (the musical), a show they which focused on Anya's post-reversion to being a demon, and the final arc of the show, when they brought Faith back, you didn't miss much.

Did you guys here that in the new version of "Salem's Lot" to be shown at the end of June on TNT that they have taken the character played by the excellent Andre Braugher and made him a sodomite? Completely stupid and unnecessary. I'm waiting for the re-makes of "Gone With The Wind" and "Casablanca" with all male romances in the next 20 years, and the laudatory reviews that will surely accompany them.

[Tribune7]

Anya's a Republican.

[FairWitness]

Anya's a Republican.

And beautiful to boot - thanks for the reminder. Her portrayal of a "thousand year-old capitalist demon" came fairly naturally to her I guess.