Buffy against the vampires

Buffy against the vampires ( Buffy the Vampire Slayer , sometimes shortened BtVS ) is a American Televised series in 144 43 minutes episodes, created by Joss Whedon and diffused March 10th 1997 with the May 20th 2003 on the networks WB then UPN. In France, the series was diffused April 3rd 1998 with the October 17th 2003 on Série Club and starting from the July 3rd 1998 on M6 within the framework of the trilogy of Saturday . With the Quebec, the series was diffused on VRAK.TV for the first 5 seasons, then, due to too ripe topic, the series was diffused on Z tele (with 2 or 3 seasons of delay, the series finished in 2005 in Quebec).

Presentation

Buffy against the vampires is a series created by Joss Whedon, drawn from its film éponyme, Buffy, Tueuse of vampires , which very had only moderately met success. Not being satisfied with the result and the production of film, the scenario writer nourished the project to decline it in series in order to obtain the format suitable to develop in all independence his idea on the scenario. Today, this series counts many fans and it reached the stage of series worship.

Synopsis

The series is placed in the end of the 20th century of a populated fantastic universe of vampires and demons. An young girl, only elected with each generation, Tueuse (the Slayer, in original version), equipped with fantastic athletic qualities, is charged to fight vampires, so that its contemporaries can live in peace. The series follows the adventures of Tueuse in title, Buffy Summers, in the small town of Sunnydale to California, which is being a convergence point of malefic energies: Sunnydale is on the Mouth of the Hell (Inferni Os, in Latin)! Pulled by its Observer, Rupert Gilles, and helped by his friends (the scooby gang) particularly Willow and Alex (Xander in original version), Buffy tries to assume its mission of Tueuse, its frivolity of teenager having gradually to evolve to a more responsible attitude, while carrying out its life of high-school girl then of coed, and by making good figure in family.

Developments

With the length of its seven seasons, the series got busy to mix the kinds skilfully: within the framework of a fantastic account of Vampire S, demon S, and Phantom S, within the framework of a series according to the life of a teenager, one being in general a mirror symbolic system of the other, comic, melodramatic, epic intersect, often within the same episode, been useful by an esthetics mixing comics , film of horror, martial arts and sentimental series for teenagers.

Devoting the experiment of their inexhaustible author, his funny dialogs, ends and, contributed much to its success in the Anglo-Saxon world; they are unfortunately considerably affadis in the French version. The growing number of its characters generated the popular side of this new legend told with the wire of the episodes. Series on adolescence, the side feuilletonnant of Buffy makes it possible to the spectator to follow their evolution during their passage to the adulthood.

Lastly, the series clearly dissociates series for teenagers strictly speaking by a certain audacity, in particular on the topic of sexuality: it was classified in the 2002 like “worst of the televised series” by very preserving association “Relative television council”.

Today, even after the stop of the series, of many fans continue to make it live, in particular thanks to Internet and with the official magazine which is stopped today.

Distribution

See also: Characters of Buffy against the vampires

Supporting characters

Equip with writing

See also: Mutant Enemy

The writing of the scenarios is carried out by Mutant Enemy, a production company created by Whedon in 1997. The scenario writers generally appearing in the credits are: Steven S. DeKnight, Jane Espenson, David Fury, Drew Goddard, Drew Greenberg, Rebecca Kirshner Rand, Marti Noxon and Doug Kneaded. Howard Gordon, David Greenwalt and Joss Whedon is always mentioned.

Rewards

Episodes

See also: List of the episodes of Buffy against the vampires

At the end of season 3, part of the characters (Angel, Cordelia Drive out, Wesley Windam-Pryce) leave the series for a Spin-off: ''Angel'' . The scenarios of the two series interfere within the framework of several Cross-country race-over S, and of the characters make appearances out of their own series, like Buffy, Angel, Willow, Spike. Some leave the universe of Buffy to settle in that of Angel , like Faith, Darla, Drusilla, Harmony, Andrew, and especially Spike (after the stop of the series Buffy ).

Comments

The French translation of the titles of the episodes is often different from original, this change weakens of it sometimes the cultural connotation (see the article on the episodes). The fourth season marks a change of format of the image, a quality improved of framing and a greater number of turnings except studio with the surge of the means. Each season is equipped with an experimental episode in its expression.

The dead end will not have to be made on the masterly one and upsetting episode - With the drift (normal again) - season 6, which pushes us to ask to us whether Joss Whedon, to create all this series, did not plagiarize the diary of a schizophrene… Our heroin faces there a crisis about the principle of reality.

Analyzes

A reading on several levels

The televised series Buffy against the vampires cause contrasted appreciations: deeply weak for the ones, immoral for the others, televisual masterpiece for the last.

Joss Whedon, its creator, director and principal scenario writer based the topic of this series on an inversion of the traditional principle of films of horror. Instead of showing a blonde pursued by vampires, Buffy is a blonde who kills out of the vampires!

The result can cause a deep misunderstanding: it is possible to appreciate BTVS by a reading with the first degree, by looking at a pretty girl court-vêtue demolishing thanks to her capacities the vampires and other demons in effective scenes of action.

But the originality of the scenarios is to allow a reading other levels, which give to the adventures of Buffy an unusual metaphorical dimension for a series supposed to provide a simple entertainment to the general public. The journalist of the specialized magazine DvdRama declares: Never a series as well will never have known to mix the registers with such an amount of talent. All the kinds are in Buffy: the fantastic one, the comic one and the romantic one of course, but also the satire, the burlesque one, tragedy, the parody, science fiction… .

The many references cross and superimposed between the work shakespearienne, the myths, the tales for children (revisited) and the fantastic folklore which form what one will call Buffyvers (Buffy/universe), offer to the televiewer a new jewel of the pop culture. This original universe revisit and looks further into the mythology of the vampires intelligently, allowing Buffy to be much more than one Van Helsing with the sauce Pamela Anderson. Joss Whedon often rewards the spectators faithful (or fidélise occasional spectators) by respecting to the letter the universe which it itself created.

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