To be clear: Joss Whedon’s 90s supernatural fantasy Buffy the Vampire Slayer was everything. They crowded out the original Scooby Gang (Willow, Xander, Giles and Cordelia) and required Buffy to be more “military general” than “Slayer”. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Those meddling kids: the Scooby gang. Photograph: Fox Television/REX/ShutterstockIn fact, any attention paid to the regular cast mostly focused on vampire and affiliate Scooby Gang member Spike (James Marsters). At the same time, the feminism that always suffused Buffy the Vampire Slayer suddenly became crassly overt, culminating in the crashing line in yet another of Buffy’s speeches to the Slayerettes about why only one special slayer is called per generation.

Source: The Guardian March 27, 2017 12:00 UTC