re: "Vampire Slayer: Buffy the Conservative"

Evan Pokroy at Big Hollywood decrypts the secret Conservative themes of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."


Money quote(s):


"The fact is that Buffy the Vampire Slayer is, at its core, an exceptionally conservative show. There are a few episodes that break this general mold but, as a whole, it is everything that Hollywood is not. There is a main theme that runs throughout the entire span of the show and is apparent in every single episode.

Evil exists and you do not negotiate with it; you fight it."

Never forget what Will Rogers had to say about diplomacy.

(I rather like dogs, and never throw rocks at them.)

"You don’t need special powers to confront evil."

That's why there's a Second Amendment, so everyone can have special powers to fight evil.

"Actions have consequences."

So do elections. And economies. And foreign policies. And wars.

"You are the master (or mistress, if we’re going to stay in context) of your own destiny."

We all have choices, every moment of every day. How we respond to them, how we make them, tells ourselves (and others) what kind of a master (or mistress) we are of that destiny.

"Government is suspect."

Again: this is why, in extremity, we have a Second Amendment.

(But let's keep going with elections in the meantime.)

" No one is so irredeemably evil that they cannot, after much hard work and rebuilding of self, find themselves unequivocally on the side of good."