>>5967597well Sarah Michelle Gellar is not really my type hehe she is a bit short lol besides everyone knows love between mortals and vampires is forbidden, it is very naughty, very very bad and wrong
I guess it was inevitable that the generation of empowered lesbian feminist heroines nurtured by Joss Whedon's imagination would turn against him feeling betrayal in the end with all the MeToo persecution antics etc the cadence of it is almost such a predictable script denouement that could have been written by Whedon himself. Exactly as portrayed by Rene Girard mimetic conflict / scapegoat / hero sacrifice philosophy hehe. I still have that project about "redoing vampires" ie finding a new or modern different fictional perspective or alternative cultural inspiration for them (this is really difficult), I was just rewatching and backfilling some of the old Buffy episodes I remember them from when they were being shown on BBC2 on tv in the 90s / 2000s here in the UK, I only saw a few of them sporadically though at the time. Joss Whedon is clearly very influential (I know Serenity and Dollhouse but I have not seen any of his recent stuff, I have zero knowledge or engagement with Marvel superheroes), Joss Whedon's logistical management of all the interweaving story threads is incredibly impressive and worthy of study (or at least the abilities of his team of writers) though the moral lessons imparted, the dramatic impetus and archetypes he deploys are generally superficial, shallow (maybe this is the appeal? They are just simple and easily understood in a 45mins episode?) For Buffy originally I never saw any of the episodes past probably season 3 back then. Looking now through the historiography of the fandom and episode wikis it is interesting to reflect on how a lot of the series episodes lined up with various events of the era eg Columbine, or start of Iraq invasion (final season 7 war, actual episode quote: "the mission is all that matters!!" we must militarise the innocent girls/ women!! / Sunnydale apocalypse storyline etc). The literal last scene of Buffy is her staring at a gigantic smoking crater (it is Iraq / the Middle East?); that is the message of the show; that is what you get when you "fight evil"
I watch and read a lot of period and costume dramas Jane Austen or Bronte sisters or Virginia Woolf stuff, they furnish most of my literary heroines. But I guess for some it might be easier to enjoy these fantasy horror or sci-fi feminist hero narratives back when they were written by men tee hee hee
