Into every generation, there is a Chosen One...

By Buffyrules01

Hello all! We're going to start doing something a little different here at the Fangdom. Every month, us at the Random Fangdom will go over a form of entertainment that has our beloved vampires starring in it. This month, Buffy was picked at random for the start of our new column, and I don't think we could've picked a better show to start with (yes, I'm being biased)! So of course, I was asked to introduce you all to this wonderful TV show. Who better to talk about Buffy the Vampire Slayer than me? I don't go by Buffyrules01 for the heck of it.

Moving on...so as you probably have noticed, the month of July is already half over. What are you going to do about that, you ask? Easy, we're going to go into August. For a little over a month and half we will be going over everything we can about Buffy to let those of you who have never seen the show fall in love with it, and to let those who have, reminisce with us.

Buffy first came out in March of 1997, five years after the awful movie of the same name came out. Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Movie is a far cry from the successful show, and rightfully so considering Joss Whedon actually walked out in the middle of production when the movie people refused to go with his vision. It just goes to show you that when Joss Whedon is involved, you should listen to what he says; the man is a genius.

The concept of Buffy came to Whedon after he saw that in every horror movie there's always a little blonde girl who goes down a dark alley and gets killed. He wanted to flip the idea and make it so that yes the little blonde girl goes down the dark alley, but she beats the crap out of the thing that's chasing her. That's how Buffy Summers was born.

Years after the bomb that was the movie, Whedon was approached and asked to make his version of Buffy into a TV show. Whedon explained that "They said, 'Do you want to do a show?' And I thought, 'High school as a horror movie.' And so the metaphor became the central concept behind Buffy, and that's how I sold it."

The supernatural elements in the series stood as metaphors for personal anxieties associated with adolescences and young adulthood. Such as the girl who is ignored and feels like she's invisible to others in school. In the Buffyverse, that girl really would become invisible, go insane, and try to kill everyone who ignored her. Or that teacher that every body fantasizes about, in Buffy she'd probably turn out to be a creature and try to kill off all the boys who liked her.

For those of you who have been living under a rock and have no idea what Buffy the Vampire Slayer is about, I'll give you a quick synopsis of the show.

Buffy Summers is a sixteen year old girl who is sent to the fictional town of Sunnydale, California after getting kicked out of her old school in LA for burning down the Gym. The reason for the burn down was because there were vampires in the gym and Buffy is a Vampire Slayer (hence the name of the show). A Vampire Slayer is one girl in all the world, a Chosen One, she alone will stand against the vampires, the demons, and the forces of darkness. So technically Buffy isn't just a vampire slayer, she kills all evil things, but vampires are her specialty.

Each Slayer has what is called a Watcher, a Watcher looks after and trains the Slayer so that she can fight all of the evils in the world until she passes and another one is called.

How did a Slayer come to be, you ask? A bunch of monks took the essence of a pure-demon and put the essence into the body of a girl; the first Slayer. This mystical force gave the Slayer her supernatural abilites such as strength, speed, and superhuman senses.

There are seven seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and each season is basically a year in the life of Buffy. The first season is shorter than the others, and is Buffy's second semester of her sophomore high school year. The second season is her junior year, the third season is her senior, and so on and so forth through college and whatnot.

What I love so much about this show is that it has every genre you can think of for a series. It's a comedy, a drama, a romance, mystery, thriller-whatever you can think of all rolled into one! The dialogue written for the characters is absolute genius, and we at the Fangdom will go over some of our favorite quotes from the show as we go along. We'll also do some character explorations/spotlights so that you will all get to know and love the characters as much as we do.

If you haven't seen the show yet, I highly suggest you go watch it. The first season is on Hulu, and you can buy two seasons in a pack for about twenty bucks!!! A great deal considering I bought all mine individually back when they were all about forty dollars, dang it.