The show appears as a bubble-gum program, aimed at teens and while it's fan-base is largely younger viewers (teens-twenties), it's major themes profoundly confront the more mature ideas of good vs. Buffy embraces those symbols in one hand and hones and wields them to fight evil in the other.
Many of those are women who have forfeited the ultra-feminine symbols of their gender-love, compassion and vulnerability in order to maintain equal footing with men. How many times did we see that scene and feel just a little bit disgusted with the victim for not even trying to fight back? How many times did we see that scene and feel disgusted with the directors for typing female victims in this way over and over again? Buffy, herself, isn't the "traditional" feminist TV icon. About the show itself-Buffy is the antithesis of the "pretty-blond-victim" who runs from the "psycho ax-murderer" in horror films past-the girl who always twisted her ankle and fell in her attempt to get away. Some good examples are S3-The Wish, Helpless, Doppelgangland, S4-Something Blue, Hush and Restless, S5-Fool for Love, Triangle, Weight of the World, The Gift (I'd also say The Body but that one gives too much away) S6-Bargaining, Tabula Rasa, Older and Far Away, S7-Beneath You, Selfless, Conversations With Dead People, The Killer In Me, Get It Done (I'd say Chosen but it's the series finale which also would give too much away). If you decide to give it a try, I suggest checking out a handful of episodes from season three on before passing judgment. Believe me, it gets more intense and complicated and dark as it goes on. It really gives you no clue as to what the series ends up being. Season one is the most shallow end of the series. Frequently, they are people who haven't really seen enough episodes to form a well thought-out opinion on the series, the content, and the characters as a whole-especially, people who have only seen a few eps from season one. Very often, when you find a particularly negative review of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, you find someone whose glancing opinion bounces off the surface "appearance" of the show and does not delve into the actual substance therein.
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