Pick of the day
The following passage was written by Barbara Hooks
on the episode "Helpless".
Elsewhere in the world, kids grow stronger through
challenge and adversity. But in downtown Sunnydale, what doesn't
kill you will suck your blood. Indeed, it's the extra-curricular
activities that tire a teenage slayer - patrolling for vampires,
pile-driving practice and keeping one's aura clean and untarnished.
Exhausting! As for boyfriends, it's hell falling for the enemy.
"I tried to make you go away," moans Buffy to Angel,
her vampire lover. "I even killed you, but it didn't help."
As Buffy's 18th birthday approaches, she mysteriously loses her
slayer powers. Off her crystals, she can't hurl a dagger to save
herself. Meanwhile, every vamp in town senses her weakness and
feels a snack coming on. Scared of being helpless and pathetic,
Buffy has visions of herself "hanging out at the old slayers
home, talking about my glory days and showing them Mr Pointy,
the stake I had bronzed." Love this girl. What her controller
hasn't told her is that when the slayer turns 18, it's tradition
to strip them of their powers and entomb them with a cross between
Herman Munster and Hannibal Lecter. How's that for a party favour!
Buffy decides to sit this one out. But when her Mom is kidnapped,
she has no choice. Moreover, she is not the only one being tested.
Ironically, while Hollywood is busy reducing women in their 30s
and 40s to stuttering, stumbling schoolgirls, Buffy The Vampire
Slayer is at the vanguard of razor-sharp, whip-smart teen
queens who are empowering the millennium generation. Long may
she prosper. And all to the power of Mr Pointy
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