Blog #4: Oh no, Buffy

I decided to watch, yet another episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer because it is intriguing and the episodes apply to daily life issues. The episode I watched was “Never Kill a Boy on the First Date” and found this episode to be better than the last episode, “Teacher’s Pet.” The main issue in this episode had to deal with balancing social and work aspects. Buffy had to deal with the issue of dating and wanting to have a social life along with slaying evil characters. It teaches us that balancing the different aspects of our lives is an important skill and that every teenager has issues with it. Buffy shows us that you should not mix work with pleasure because it doesn’t always end well.  In Buffy’s case, when she mixed the two she ended up with a broken heart in a way because the guy ended up liking the thrill of her work more than Buffy herself.

Along with balancing your life, the episode teaches about that judging others and fighting for guys’ attention is common and that every girl deals with it at some point in her life. It shows us that judging others based on their job, looks, or status is not right and ends up making you look bad instead. It also shows that sometimes fighting for attention doesn’t always turn out the way you want it to. For example, one of the popular girls tried to steal Buffy’s date by throwing herself at him and in the end it turned out that the guy liked Buffy more because she was ‘real.’ This episode, to me, related to my life the most and I really got into the show even more. I feel that majority of the Buffy episodes have a real life issue and show how to solve it. I think that more people, well teenagers, should watch this show. Anyways, I am really excited to watch the next episode and can’t wait to see what Buffy will face next!