RogerM <rodger.mckay@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote :
> The show could only be appreciated as a comedy. It simply made too
little sense
> to be taken seriously. I mean, come on, tiny Buffy Summers beating up on
demons
> and monsters with her bare hands?
Actually, she often used a sword or an axe, along with the du rigeur
wooden stake. Guns would have been more logical, maybe, but there's
that whole Standards and Practices problem.
> Please! Good comedy, sure. ****y drama.
Must all Spider-Man stories be treated as comedies, simply because the
much smaller Peter Parker beats larger villains? Buffy is, after all,
a superhero, and in later seasons even explicitly called such. She
has a healing factor comparable to Wolverine's, super strength and
speed, and is inhumanly proficient at armed and edged-weapon combat.
Is any film in which a little guy like Jimmy Cagney or Bruce Lee beats
up much larger men inherently a comedy (sure, both Cagney and Lee were
superb physical specimens and actual martial artists, but in the real
world size does count, and neither of them were playing characters
with supernatural powers).
> The first few seasons, the show was an entertaining farce.
Warning, SPOILERS for Season 2.
Yep, all that stuff with Buffy losing her virginity to Angel, him
losing his soul, him snapping Jenny's neck, Buffy being hugely sad
about it all, and Buffy finally sending Angel to Hell even though he's
gotten his soul back, that was right up there with DUCK SOUP and M.
HULOT'S HOLIDAY. It was very astute to Whedon and company to
construct the 2nd season (and the first full one) around such a string
of farcical hijinks. Pure hilarity, it was.
> When it started the
> Joyce-has-cancer storyline, the show started sinking.
But it was all laughs up until then, sure. Croggle.
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