Silver
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Post by Silver on Aug 31, 2010 17:32:45 GMT -5
I've often wondered would Buffy had been so popular if everything had been reversed? What I mean is: Buffy's charater was male Xander was gay and Wilow hadthe strange freaky monster/demon relationships. Angel of course becomes Angelica etc. The stories are basically all the same but everything reversed as above. So, would our super have been the same and as popular? For me, I think the idea would have worked (but you have to try and forget the real Buffy for the imagination to work! And that's hard work for me  ). But not as popular as the Buffy that we already know and love. If they hadfound some good looking guy for the Buffy part, then it may have worked for the female fans. At the end of the day it was a cool idea to have a super human girl whose only real friends were geeks and demons. Now that would not have worked with a male Buffy. And his name would not have been Buffy but something else like ........  |
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Astray
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Post by Astray on Aug 31, 2010 18:11:43 GMT -5
Hmm, interesting question. I guess I would like the show, but definitely not as much. I dig the whole feminist, girl power thing. But the idea of Xander being the gay friend of a male Buffy would be interesting. Does that mean Xander would be with Oz lol ? I'm digging this show more and more... |
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Post by Billie Erin on Sept 2, 2010 13:07:19 GMT -5
Something else like . . . just "Buff" maybe?
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Post by Skytteflickan88 on Sept 2, 2010 13:15:56 GMT -5
I don't think the show or "Buffy" would have been as famous, since there seems to be more male power icons in today's pop culture than female.
And I don't know, that it was a girl who was forced to save the world, a vulnerable cute ex-girly girl makes her more fascinating than if a teen age guy had been forced to save the world. She looks like such a under dog, so her strength is that more impressive. Maybe a thin geeky teen age guy, could have been as vulnerable and fascinating, I don't know.
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The Girl In Question
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Post by The Girl In Question on Sept 3, 2010 2:04:48 GMT -5
I think the show would have been almost as amazing (with the dramedy and the metaphors and dialogue, etc). But I don't think it would have been as popular.
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Post by lightandmagic on Sept 4, 2010 11:06:24 GMT -5
It would have been nowhere near as popular. A large reason why Buffy is so popular is the whole female empowerment aspect of it, or girls kicking ass. If it was just a guy hunting down vampires I don't think it would have achieved anywhere near the height in cult popularity that it has today.
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Post by midwesternwatcher on Sept 5, 2010 11:58:09 GMT -5
So a male slayer would kill his vampire girlfriend at the end of Season 2? That would've been harder to accept. The head would get, but maybe not the heart. The idea of a man practicing violence against a woman is so repellent, I don't think we could've gotten over that feeling.
And a male slayer would've died for his sister at the end of season 5? Or his brother? Dawn would've been, uh, Don? It would've been hard to get that terrible tender-heartedness of the Buffy character into a male shape. In a way, I wish it'd been tried.
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Post by The Girl In Question on Sept 14, 2010 14:12:17 GMT -5
^^Eh. I don't have any problems with a male slayer killing is evil vampire girlfriend. Although I'm not sure her turning evil after sex being a metaphor for a girl who doesn't call her boyfriend back after taking (or recieving, however you want to word it) his virginity would have been as effective.
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Post by wenxina on Sept 14, 2010 14:36:20 GMT -5
^^Eh. I don't have any problems with a male slayer killing is evil vampire girlfriend. Although I'm not sure her turning evil after sex would it being a metaphor for a girl who doesn't call her boyfriend back after taking (or recieving, however you want to word it) his virginity would have been as effective. No, but they could take the cougar-teacher/neighbor approach, and send a different PSA message out: the one where young boys can also fall prey to sexual predators. Entirely different subplot, though... but definitely more current. |
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Post by Miss. Rogueh on Sept 14, 2010 20:26:51 GMT -5
I don't think it would have been as popular because as said earlier it gave girls a female empowerment figure and as all of us old enough to recal the 90's was very big on GIRL POWER... (spice girls anyone) It can be compared to a women's liberation movment, instead of burning our bras we imagined ourselves saving the world. It also brought to light the difference in girl and guy superheros. The girls not only save the world but look awesome, pick up the hot guy, dis the b*tch, and still have time for mom doing it.
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