“Knowing” is Contagious Was Buffy the Vampire Slayer just an entertaining show or did it have a deeper meaning embedded into it? Why did the show have such a big fallowing? Well before we jump into these questions a little background of the show is in order. Buffy the Vampire Slayer was first aired in 1997 and was created by Joss Whedon. The premise of the show is a young girl comes to age and discovers that she is destine to slay vampires and other hellish creatures: she also has to deal with the struggle of fighting these creatures and her real life but luckily she has a group of friends to help her. This show became a big deal because Buffy was this strong young girl that can handle anything that came her way. She did not take any crap
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What I believe is meant by this is that the characters, especially Buffy, needs to do research on whatever is going on in the town and for the viewer the “knowing” part comes from tuning in every week. Those who do tune in on a regular basses will be more inclined to learn what Buffy and her friends are learning. This particular show is deeply rooted into learning about history. The one location that keeps popping up is the school library. Now if that in its self is not a major symbol of the thirst of knowledge, “knowing”, then I would have no idea what is. Because Buffy and her friends are always in the library looking for ways of “knowing” their foe, the whole show is based around this idea of knowledge or “knowing.” Hastie suggests that there has been no other television show that has been so centered around a library (13). Hastie goes on to state that in the first three season Giles, Buffy’s watcher¸ is indeed a librarian and the library provided the prefect training ground in research and debates about the acquired knowledge (13). In Season two: Episode eighteen, titled “Killed by Death”, Buffy gets sick and Willow and Giles are in the library trying to make sense of what could have happened to her. Giles suggest that Buffy can get sick and it is natural. Willow suggests that since they are on top the “Hellmouth” that they should look into the doctor. Then they go off to do some research. They find put that the doctor has numerous complaints and lawsuits against him. Latter they find out that the doctor was helping the kids in the hospital and there was an invisible creature that was terrorizing the kids. Giles goes back to the library to find out what the creature is. Even though in this particular episode the main location was the hospital, the library is where almost all the information is found and the “knowing” takes place. Hastie also suggests that the underscored theme of the show is the necessity of
What I believe is meant by this is that the characters, especially Buffy, needs to do research on whatever is going on in the town and for the viewer the “knowing” part comes from tuning in every week. Those who do tune in on a regular basses will be more inclined to learn what Buffy and her friends are learning. This particular show is deeply rooted into learning about history. The one location that keeps popping up is the school library. Now if that in its self is not a major symbol of the thirst of knowledge, “knowing”, then I would have no idea what is. Because Buffy and her friends are always in the library looking for ways of “knowing” their foe, the whole show is based around this idea of knowledge or “knowing.” Hastie suggests that there has been no other television show that has been so centered around a library (13). Hastie goes on to state that in the first three season Giles, Buffy’s watcher¸ is indeed a librarian and the library provided the prefect training ground in research and debates about the acquired knowledge (13). In Season two: Episode eighteen, titled “Killed by Death”, Buffy gets sick and Willow and Giles are in the library trying to make sense of what could have happened to her. Giles suggest that Buffy can get sick and it is natural. Willow suggests that since they are on top the “Hellmouth” that they should look into the doctor. Then they go off to do some research. They find put that the doctor has numerous complaints and lawsuits against him. Latter they find out that the doctor was helping the kids in the hospital and there was an invisible creature that was terrorizing the kids. Giles goes back to the library to find out what the creature is. Even though in this particular episode the main location was the hospital, the library is where almost all the information is found and the “knowing” takes place. Hastie also suggests that the underscored theme of the show is the necessity of