Thursday, September 30, 2010
Buffy vs Graceling
So the other day in class we watched Buffy, that was I think my first time ever seeing it, and probably my last. I'm not that big on shows that deal with super hero's fighting. It did resemble the book Graceling in many ways. Both of the main characters are young (Katsa younger than Buffy) and don't live the normal teenage/kid life. They both have to go out and protect the ones close to them by killing people/monsters. By them killing others shows they do have some maturity to them, because not a lot of people can truly kill someone just like that. They both just done kill for fun, they kill for a purpose. Katsa kills for the king, and Buffy killed to protect her friends and the other students at the dance. It was different seeing Buffy actually kill people, because in the book Graceling we kind of have to imagine Katsa killing people. This show is defiantly for low teenagers and maybe even some kids. When I was watching it I was like "really that's so fake looking". I really don't feel like Buffy is unhappy with her gift, or at least in the episode we watched it didn't seem that way. It more seemed like she was unhappy because her guy broke up with her right before the dance.
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Well…I agree in a way. Buffy definitely wasn’t all that displeased with her powers in this episode. Her agonizing about wanting to be normal is an on/off thing. There are times when she’s completely fine with it and others when she hates it to the max. Yeah, I’d say she was okay with it this time. Plus she did make her friends happy by saving their prom, so that’s a good thing. (I never really saw the attraction of it so I didn’t go to mine but to others I guess it’s a big deal) Besides, if you were in her position would you constantly moan about it or shrug it off every now and then? Let’s face it, with those Hell Hounds running all over the place, this episode would’ve been a bad time to have a “but I want to be normaaaaaaaaal!!!” moment.
ReplyDeleteDon’t let this one episode throw you off. By this stage she’s definitely growing into her ‘duty’ (if you really want to call it that). In the first season or two, she was much more sensitive about it.
As for the fake looking bit- thankfully it was. Can you imagine how many people probably wouldn’t have watched it? It’s meant to the younger generation which means “cleaning” it up some. Sort of like Disney for teens. Well…today’s Disney I guess. Well no, I wouldn’t wish that kind of Disney on anyone. Old Disney was definitely better. Much much better…
….Sorry what was I saying? XD
I wouldn't necessarily say Buffy was sensitive to her powers at first she always accepted them but a lot of her issues had to do with that fact that she couldn't tell people this is what she was and it made it hard for her to make and keep friends and even her mom didn't know. A lot of Buffy's issues stemmed from before the show started when she had to move to Sunnydale because she burnt down the gym in her old school because there were vampires. How do you explain that? I don't think in the normal world being sent off to a different school would be punishment for arsen of a school gym. But once she's able to tell her friends and her mom what she is it's make it a lot easier for her to accept who she is and accept her powers even though she still struggles a little such as wanting to have a normal prom. I went to my Prom it wasn't all that exciting. I think planning them were way more exciting than actually going to them.
ReplyDeleteAnd I agree with the comment above me (below me?) with the fake looking. A lot of that has to do with the audience I think a lot of that also has to do with the fact that it was made in the late 90's so obviously things weren't quite as high tech as they are now. even though it was only like 10 years...