Ok so this week we watched "Innocence" and I couldn't help but notice the trend of the teeenager's life that is represented throughout the media over and over again. Boy meets girl (in this case undead boy who is cursed meets girl, they fall in love, they do "it", he gets in , gets off, gets out and leaves.). Don't get me wrong I understand that it was needed for the plot of Buffy to move along and it was an inevitability, however it all moved a little too fast. When Angel says to Spike "to kill this girl you gotta love her" I find that to create more pain you draw it all out in one nice unbearably sweet... well you let it go on for a very long time, instead of just telling her "it's over" the day after.
The effect that this has on Buffy forces her to act faster towards the destruction of Angel, just as fast as he was to break her heart. Don't misunderstand however that what they did have seemed genuine before the events that took place, but when you force someone into the corner they either cower or fight back and let's face it he picked the wrong teenage girl to F*$# with.
This episode, through the quick break up of Buffy and Angel, also demonstrated a higher symbolic meaning for the essences of "being human". After the breakup Buffy is devastated and like all teenage girls who lose the man they lost their virginity to she cries a wholehearted cry. This shows that despite living out the destiny of a slayer and having the weight of humanity of her shoulders, Buffy is still just a teenage girl with problems of her own. She experiences heartbreak from losing boyfriends, and joy from being with her buddies. But with that pent up aggression of being who she is, killing things just makes life a bit easier.
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Before we watched the show it was implicated by someone, forget who, that their relationship was about to change drastically.
I thought she was going to get knocked up. My approach to the series I'm trying to pretend like I'm still in high school so I can relate to it on that level, and not judge it too harshly given it is geared towards a younger audience audience.
Half human/half vampire baby, that'd be interesting birthed by a vampire slayer, that'd be interesting. I'm not all that familiar with most vampire series but I'm sure someone like Anne Rice has probably touched upon the subject.
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