Originally Posted by
LDAHL
I learned from Public Radio yesterday that Buffy the Vampire Slayer premiered twenty years ago. Being Public Radio, they did their best to suck the fun out of it with tedious discussions about cultural impact and feminist subtexts. I was a little surprised to learn that there was so much Buffy scholarship out there. Apparently, there are people out there willing to dedicate years of their lives to writing dissertations about various aspects of a TV show. I remember liking the show when it ran, but it never struck me as being all that significant. Of course maybe there were people who thought the same thing about Hamlet. Who knows what they'll be studying as great art in the future?