Six Quick Thoughts on Buffy

1. In the last number of seasons, there was more sex on Buffy than in Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer novels.

2. In the end, Xander was the bravest Scoobie, since he had to face all the dangers with no mystical powers.

3. Making Willow a Wiccan was probably a mistake. There are real life Wiccans. The writers could not be as freely allegorical with Willow as the could with other plotlines and characters.

4. While Buffy was all about female empowerment, the original Dracula was both a buddy story and a model of Anglophone cooperation. (IIR the Count is destroyed, not by a stake, but by a Bowie knife wielded by an American.)

5. While Buffy generated critical raves because of its "girl power" sensibility, it is highly unlikely that the same would be true of a story where boys became men in the old fashioned Louis L'Amour/Richard Hannay mode.

6. The best Buffy tribute/follow-up/sequel/exploitation would by Buffy on Ice.