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"Being stalked isn't a real turn on for girls"
Buffy rocks.
Period.
"Twilight" can go suck on a stale bag of O Neg and perish quickly into the aether never to return.
Please.
Now-ish!
This is of course, memed everywhere.
This the text that accompanies this brilliant remix at the blip.tv link:
In this remixed narrative, Edward Cullen from the Twilight Series meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer at Sunnydale High. It's an example of transformative storytelling serving as a visual critique of Edward's character and generally creepy behavior. Seen through Buffy's eyes some of the more patriarchal gender roles and sexist Hollywood tropes embedded in the Twilight saga are exposed in hilarious ways. --- This transformative work constitutes a fair-use of any copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US copyright law. The remix is licensed under a creative commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 license. -- Find me at www.rebelliouspixels.com
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Buffy is <3 forever!
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The way a show is structured, interactions between characters, etc.
Most popular teevee wouldn't be what it is without Buffy.
Buffy isn't cult - the following may appear cultist, but it's huge. It's just been a while.
The cultural significance of Twilight is the same as any other mainstream juggernaut - money. If it makes an actual impact on people (I cannot tell you how many people I know who view Buffy as a life changing text) then there's something to talk about.
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As to Twilight, you admit you're not a fan, and outright dismiss it, so how can you say for certain who it's touched, and what its significance will be in a decade hence. I'm not saying it's going to outlast Buffy, or is artistically superior, but waving it away right now sounds like nothing more than a Trekkie saying Lucas is a hack, and Star Wars will never mean anything.
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I don't know what you're talking about.
I'm dismissing Twilight because it is just bad. I'm an HP fan, and if it weren't for Harry Potter, Twilight wouldn't have been as successful - as far as I'm aware everyone there is High School age - Harry Potter itself, are badly written books, the only thing worthwhile there is fandom, very likely the only thing worthwhile in Twilight is fandom.
I think Buffy, as a show, is more than just the fandom.
The episodic procedurals, as a type, have been around for decades. The kind of storytelling told in Buffy was not the type you'd find in young adult television - not to mention that its a transgenerational show - people from the age of 12 onwards can watch Buffy, understand and enjoy - which is something that occurs so much in television now we're barely aware of it, but before Buffy that sort of thing was very, very rare.
And now, I'm going to sleep!
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I hate it with the fire of a million suns.
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