Seven Seasons of Buffy: Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors Discuss Their Favorite Television Show (Smart Pop series) by Gilene Yeffeth Read Free Book Online Page A
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between the characters.
It’s in Faith’s hands, no wait, she’s injured, handoff to Buffy. No, Buffy can’t handle the testosterone charge, quickly pass to Willow. Wait no, give to Xander, oh wait, Anya has them. Ultimately, it came down to Buffy and Spike. Spike, though he was fighting off to the side, was the vampire we knew him to be. The man who defeated the demon to get his soul back. The one who took his punches and then demanded arrogantly, “Is that all you’ve got?”
This Spike was worried because his medallion wasn’t working. I kept waiting for him to proclaim to all, “I don’t need no stinking medallion. I’m here to kick them back into oblivion.” He never did. It’snot until Buffy goes down with a vicious wound that drains her testosterone that it is immediately transferred to Spike.
Finally, in the end, through the medallion, Spike receives his balls again, only to die holding down the fort while Buffy and the rest of testosterone-slayer potentials run for it.
With Spike and Sunnydale gone, I will never forget my curiosity as I sat there looking at all of them. Willow in the final minutes had dispersed the Slayer’s strength to the world. All potentials now have their full Slayer’s strength without Buffy dying.
Which is good since so many of the cast died. Now Buffy has an open banquet of people she can suck the balls from. The sky’s the limit and the Slayer is now guaranteed to be able to carry on for eternity.
USA Today best-selling author Sherrilyn Kenyon has been a devout Buffy fan since the very beginning. She lives outside of Nashville, Tennessee with her husband and three sons. Raised in the middle of eight boys, and currently outnumbered by the Y chromosome in her home, she realizes the most valuable asset a woman has for coping with men is a sense of humor. Not to mention a large trash bag and a pair of tongs.
Versatile and prolific, she has successfully published in virtually every known genre and subgenre. Writing as Kinley MacGregor and Sherrilyn Kenyon, she is the best-selling author of several series, including, The Dark-Hunters, Brotherhood of the Sword, The MacAllisters, Sex Camp Diaries and BAD Boys. Her novel Fantasy Lover was voted as one of the Top Ten Romances of 2002 by Romance Writers of America. For more information, you can visit her online at one of her websites: sherrilynkenyon.com or kinleymacgregor.com .
Scott Westerfeld
A SLAYER COMES
TO TOWN
As Scott Westerfeld explains, Buffy falls into a long-standing science fiction and fantasy tradition that includes Dracula, The X-Files and, for that matter , Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy. Buffy is a so-called Trespass story, except when it’s not . . .
C REATIVE WRITING TEACHERS are fond of sweeping generalizations:
“Never use adverbs.”
“Never begin a story with the word the .”
“There’s only one plot: the shift from innocence to experience.”
A friend of mine in Louisiana had a writing teacher who enjoyed proclaiming, “The king dies and the queen dies. That’s not a story. The king dies and the queen dies of grief. Now that’s a story.” I’m not sure what that’s supposed to mean, nor what any of these sayings are supposed to do for young writers. Probably make all but the most dedicated break down and get a real job.
But recently I heard a good one: “There are only two plots: a stranger comes to town and someone goes on a journey.” This aphorism helped distill an idea I’ve developed over years of reading and writing science fiction and fantasy, resulting in my own sweeping generalization: “There are only two kinds of fantastic story: the Alternate World and the Trespass.”
What do I mean by this? Allow me to define my terms.
In “Alternate World” stories, the reader goes on a journey to another era, another planet, a world that follows different rules. Alternative histories,
It’s in Faith’s hands, no wait, she’s injured, handoff to Buffy. No, Buffy can’t handle the testosterone charge, quickly pass to Willow. Wait no, give to Xander, oh wait, Anya has them. Ultimately, it came down to Buffy and Spike. Spike, though he was fighting off to the side, was the vampire we knew him to be. The man who defeated the demon to get his soul back. The one who took his punches and then demanded arrogantly, “Is that all you’ve got?”
This Spike was worried because his medallion wasn’t working. I kept waiting for him to proclaim to all, “I don’t need no stinking medallion. I’m here to kick them back into oblivion.” He never did. It’snot until Buffy goes down with a vicious wound that drains her testosterone that it is immediately transferred to Spike.
Finally, in the end, through the medallion, Spike receives his balls again, only to die holding down the fort while Buffy and the rest of testosterone-slayer potentials run for it.
With Spike and Sunnydale gone, I will never forget my curiosity as I sat there looking at all of them. Willow in the final minutes had dispersed the Slayer’s strength to the world. All potentials now have their full Slayer’s strength without Buffy dying.
Which is good since so many of the cast died. Now Buffy has an open banquet of people she can suck the balls from. The sky’s the limit and the Slayer is now guaranteed to be able to carry on for eternity.
USA Today best-selling author Sherrilyn Kenyon has been a devout Buffy fan since the very beginning. She lives outside of Nashville, Tennessee with her husband and three sons. Raised in the middle of eight boys, and currently outnumbered by the Y chromosome in her home, she realizes the most valuable asset a woman has for coping with men is a sense of humor. Not to mention a large trash bag and a pair of tongs.
Versatile and prolific, she has successfully published in virtually every known genre and subgenre. Writing as Kinley MacGregor and Sherrilyn Kenyon, she is the best-selling author of several series, including, The Dark-Hunters, Brotherhood of the Sword, The MacAllisters, Sex Camp Diaries and BAD Boys. Her novel Fantasy Lover was voted as one of the Top Ten Romances of 2002 by Romance Writers of America. For more information, you can visit her online at one of her websites: sherrilynkenyon.com or kinleymacgregor.com .
Scott Westerfeld
A SLAYER COMES
TO TOWN
As Scott Westerfeld explains, Buffy falls into a long-standing science fiction and fantasy tradition that includes Dracula, The X-Files and, for that matter , Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy. Buffy is a so-called Trespass story, except when it’s not . . .
C REATIVE WRITING TEACHERS are fond of sweeping generalizations:
“Never use adverbs.”
“Never begin a story with the word the .”
“There’s only one plot: the shift from innocence to experience.”
A friend of mine in Louisiana had a writing teacher who enjoyed proclaiming, “The king dies and the queen dies. That’s not a story. The king dies and the queen dies of grief. Now that’s a story.” I’m not sure what that’s supposed to mean, nor what any of these sayings are supposed to do for young writers. Probably make all but the most dedicated break down and get a real job.
But recently I heard a good one: “There are only two plots: a stranger comes to town and someone goes on a journey.” This aphorism helped distill an idea I’ve developed over years of reading and writing science fiction and fantasy, resulting in my own sweeping generalization: “There are only two kinds of fantastic story: the Alternate World and the Trespass.”
What do I mean by this? Allow me to define my terms.
In “Alternate World” stories, the reader goes on a journey to another era, another planet, a world that follows different rules. Alternative histories,
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