Actually, I know some of my friends, including my boyfriend, never watched the Whedonverse. The last episode of such aired 12 years ago.
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For that reason, I am going to summarize the Whedonverse from the point of view of someone who LITERALLY USED IT AS AN EMOTIONAL LIFELINE >
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> and realized years later that it had horrible messages >
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and also that 100,000 monkeys on a typewriter would produce a more consistent modern gothic horror setting
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So, the first thing to know is that there was a movie called Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It had none of the same characters except Buffy
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The show maintained the pretense of following up on the events of the movie, but only in a way that work if you saw the movie years before
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So, we are told at the beginning of every episode of the first five of seven seasons that the Slayer is a Chosen One in "every generation"
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She protects us from the vampires, the demons, and the forces of Darkness.
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This monologue does not outright state that the Slayer is always female, but the "she" is intentionally exclusive
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It's also wrong in that by the end of the show there are several hundred Slayers, all in the early Millenial generation
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Sure but that's not "wrong" that's explicitly changing the rules
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Yeah, but it's wrong even before that because of the whole "Slayers work based on heartbeat status not brain status"
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Like, BIG SPOILER FOR THOSE FOLLOWING: BUFFY DIES AT THE END OF SEASON 1. In the medical-in-1900-sense.
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