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It probably underwhelmed you because it basically boiled down to "because The Patriarchy".

I agree with the general competence level of the bad guys being pretty poor, but honestly that's par for the course for any TV series of the era so I don't really hold it against Buffy specifically that much. Not sure what you mean here -- there are plenty of different supernatural beings in...

Oh, yeah, I definitely get it. There's nothing wrong with the trope. Even in the sorts of cases like this, where someone is clearly indulging their own fetishes, I don't have any problem with it. If you're a creative and you want to be a bit self-indulgent with it and cater to your own...

Whedon thinks "strong female character" means literally physical powerful, without really understanding what makes a strong character. That might be okay on its own, but then he refuses to cast women with any actual muscle mass in favour of his 'waif' archetype -- he's got a Thing for tiny hot...

I rewatched most of it a couple of years ago. The dialogue feels a lot more forced than I remembered it being, but that might just be me getting tired of Whedon-isms and every third line being a quip. Given the show's feminist reputation, I didn't feel like Whedon's performative faux feminism...