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So what's all that got to do with Buffy then? It's principal themes were about everyday teenage/young adult life - the superficial trappings of the supernatural were only ever thinly veiled, and often terribly witty, metaphors for regular, day to day life. That's why BTVS as a show had such wide appeal and popularity - school kids could get it because they were in the sort of regular high school Buffy was set in and viewing such social ills for example of drink and drugs abuse being dealt with in terms of Vampires being a metaphor for people with drink and drugs related problems was approached in a way that didn't preach but in a funny kind of way told it like it is - adults got it equally because the same metaphors of demons and monsters personifying certain sociological issues from their own experience of the same rang true on a great number of levels.Agitprop said:I'm not advocating for sorcery, Mr.A. and I know squat about Buffy except that the theme is supernatural. Free market capitalism won't work indefinitely on a finite planet and the emphasis on mastery of the spiritual and mental realms, rather than material ones, has acquired a great appeal for many, as a consequense.
For example - A love struck Vampire Slayer in love with a Vampire with a soul acquiesces to teenage passion and sleeps with her paramour - the morning after she awakes to find him a soulless, swaggering asshole no longer interested in the her as a person, only a conquest - its a parody of real life few of the shows female audience failed to get instantly and it was on exactly these kind themes and levels Buffy The Vampire Slayer worked exclusively for its audience.
Quite what the show had to do with the supernatural I have absolutely no idea - let alone you're interpretation of its popularity being evidence of some stand point the show in question had absolutely nothing at all to do with.
So I'm remaining rather curious - what does BTVS have to do with some perceived sociologically evident dissatisfaction regarding the Free Market Economy?