Newsgroups: alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer
Subject: "Buffy" malice towards audience
Date: 28 May 2002 10:16:32 -0700

The cast and crew of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" created engaging
characters, characters that viewers came to care about, and then
through the various seasons would tare their hearts, crush their
souls, break their spirits. Occasionally, they would kill off one of
them.

  I can only speculate about the malevolence of the producers, writers
and actors of "Buffy" towards the characters they created and,
ultimately, toward their audience. Some clues have been provided by
"Buffy Bites" that run during the breaks of the "Buffy" reruns on the
FX station.

  One of the crew members said that if series creator Joss Weadon had
had a date in high school, there would be no "Buffy the Vampire
Slayer" today. It seems that Weadon has found a way to strike back at
all the beautiful people in high school who would have nothing to do
with him.

  On those "Buffy Bites", co-producer Jane Espenson would actually
gloat over the tragedies that befell the characters. It was a definite
policy of the series that none of the characters would find happiness.
None of the relationships would ever work out.

  I have no idea what Espenson's problem is.

  Series star Sarah Michelle Gellar may be a major contributor to the
series' malice towards its audience. One of the Gellar websites quoted
her as saying: "Just because you donate sperm does not make you a
father. I don't have a father. I would never give him the credit or
acknowledge him as my father."

  One could hardly blame her for such bitterness. However, it is the
nature of such feelings that whenever it can't strike back at the
source of the hurt, it would seek other targets for the rage.

  Thus we have a group of angry, bitter, mean people devoting their
great talents to produce a series to hurt their audience.