Episode 25

WITS chats Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 1 Retrospective

Rebecca and Tori reflect on Season 1 and bestow some WITS awards for their favorites and bests. We cover the gamut of topics from The Divine Comedy and Shakespeare to "Night of the Comet," the heroines journey, and post-feminist theory.

Citations

Galati, C. A. (2022). Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter...High School? Dante’s Commedia and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The Journal of Popular Film and Television, 50(2), 80–92. https://doi.org/10.1080/01956051.2022.2057406

Owen, A Susan. 1999. “Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Vampires, Postmodernity, and Postfeminism.” The Journal of Popular Film and Television 27 (2). Washington, D. C: Taylor & Francis Inc: 24–31.

Stratton, Jon. 2005. “Buffy the Vampire Slayer: What Being Jewish Has to Do with It.” Television & New Media 6 (2). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications: 176–99. doi:10.1177/1527476403255828.

Award Music by Denis Maksimov from Pixabay

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Rebecca B

Rebecca has always appreciated nerdy and cult-classic media such as Star Trek (in all its iterations), Star Wars (leaning toward the early stuff), Battlestar Galactica, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and so on. She has also been a huge fan of Fantasy content like Lord of the Rings, Piers Anthony, The Wheel of Time, Game of Thrones, and many others. She is relatively new to Marvel content and the world of Buffy, but she is enjoying the ride. She loves to talk about ALL of the above and could not be more thrilled to do so with her long time friend and often partner in crime, Tori.
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Tori S

Tori is a life-long tv and movie fan, growing up with classics such as Gilligan's Island, Lost in Space, M*A*S*H, and movie musicals. Alas, she never got into "fandom," which is probably because her mom wouldn't buy her the teen mags needed to be a super fan back in the day. Now, this Pacific Northwest transplant is trying to rectify this by chatting television and movies with her intrepid friend, Rebecca.