Day 16 - Your guilty pleasure show
Jun. 22nd, 2010 07:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thessalianYeaaaaaaaah, it's got to be Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
I shouldn't really feel guilty about liking this particular show; it's the lead character I have issues with. The more I watch this show the more I think it ought to be renamed "Psychological Problems: The Series (now with vampires)". It's got its seriously good moments, but mostly it's there for the one-liners and the pretty. I admit to it being a guilty pleasure because it's really such fluff, at the end of the day. It pretends at moral conundrums that it never entirely delivers and peppers it all with the one-liners and the pretty, and calls it ground-breaking television. I don't see the feminism that a lot of people laud the show for, for a start. Buffy herself strikes me as whiny and irritating and, as with most Whedon shows, I watch it for the supporting characters, who have far more interesting character arcs than the broody, morally overweighted, romantically and emotionally crippled leads.
I'm just sayin'.
I shouldn't really feel guilty about liking this particular show; it's the lead character I have issues with. The more I watch this show the more I think it ought to be renamed "Psychological Problems: The Series (now with vampires)". It's got its seriously good moments, but mostly it's there for the one-liners and the pretty. I admit to it being a guilty pleasure because it's really such fluff, at the end of the day. It pretends at moral conundrums that it never entirely delivers and peppers it all with the one-liners and the pretty, and calls it ground-breaking television. I don't see the feminism that a lot of people laud the show for, for a start. Buffy herself strikes me as whiny and irritating and, as with most Whedon shows, I watch it for the supporting characters, who have far more interesting character arcs than the broody, morally overweighted, romantically and emotionally crippled leads.
I'm just sayin'.