Buffy overload imminent

Sea­son Five of Buffy has just recent­ly end­ed, Sea­sons One and Two are now of DVD and now part of my col­lec­tion, Sea­sons One, Two and Three were played on Fox­tel over the East­er long­week­end. And to top it all off I’ve just spent the last few days re-watch­ing Sea­son Four.
So now I’m in the weird posi­tion of hav­ing all of Buffy fresh in my mind. I’ve nev­er had any­thing close to this expe­ri­ence with Doc­tor Who. The sheer vol­ume of Doc­tor Who makes that more dif­fi­cult, even ignor­ing the miss­ing episodes. And then on top of that there is the long list of unread Doc­tor Who books.
Yet I call myself a Doc­tor Who fan (proud­ly, but with­out the need to be obvi­ous) and do not call myself a Buffy fan. I enjoy Buffy, I enjoy talk­ing about it with fel­low view­ers, I enjoy the get togeth­ers to watch it, but Buffy is not a reflec­tion of who I am or what I believe.
Com­plex.
Doc­tor Who did not always hit the mark, but the over-all non-vio­lent hero-teacher real­ly res­onates with me.
Buffy on the oth­er hand deals with some very impor­tant con­tem­po­rary issues, but when it comes down to it she pokes things with a pointy stick.

4 thoughts on “Buffy overload imminent”

  1. That the Doc­tor is a non-vio­lent hero-teacher is Nineties fan revi­sion­ism. The Doc­tor is often vio­lent… it would be clos­er to say that the Doc­tor rarely uses direct phys­i­cal and fatal vio­lence.
    In fact, giv­en a 26 year his­to­ry, the Doc­tor is rarely any­thing con­sis­tent.
    And when it comes down to it, Buffy does­n’t stake things. That’s just a super­fi­cial read­ing.

  2. Doc­tor Who should per­haps go down in the var­i­ous jour­nals of coun­selling psy­chol­o­gy as not so much fic­tion but ther­a­py for who­ev­er wrote a par­tic­u­lar sto­ry or nov­el. The angst the Doc­tor dances with, has very lit­tle to do with a social enti­ty and more to do with the inner world of the writer. I keep going on this but is there a point in Doc­tor Who?

  3. From Lance Parkin:
    Oh there are some great life lessons in there, too — read­ing is bet­ter than fight­ing; being clever is bet­ter than being strong; one joke is worth a fleet of war­ships; be seri­ous about what you do, but not how you do it; robot dogs are cool; peo­ple should wear more hats … er … strug­gling now.

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