The connection I want to bring to this topic and apocalypse is that Joss Whedon creates all these supernatural apocalypse theories and each time he has the main characters defeat the cause. Whedon created this whole world around the idea of "Into every generation a Slayer is born: one girl in all the world, a chosen one. She alone will wield the strength and skill to fight the vampires, demons, and the forces of darkness; to stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their numbers. She is the Slayer." The slayer is a sign of hope in darkness. She will fight until she has no more life in her, and then another will be called in her place. She is our protector, so there's hope for humanity yet. In this world, she will do anything to stop the end of the world. So perhaps, the world won't end afterall. Maybe this was the point of doing the series. To show us that we shouldn't worry so much, be innocent (like the unknowing residents of Sunnydale), and someone, perhaps even you will help the earth from coming to its end. There will always be doctors and researchers to help prevent and cure viruses and diseases. There will always be specialists to help against some threat to humanity. There will always be a slayer to fight the big bad.
I never watched the show, but this is an interesting idea. Are these kinds of... saviors, if you will (whether scientists, researchers, vampire slayers), put here by some purposeful hand, sheer statistics (put enough people together and someone's gotta have a plan) or do we have to encourage them to be? Can we rest easy, or should we be worried about whether or not someone out there is standing by with a solution to our problems? It's probably OK to be comforted by the idea of a savior in our midst, but what would happen if the brown stuff hit the fan, and no one was ready for it?
ReplyDeleteI'd just like to point out that I am a huge Buffy fan as well. Well, more or less a Joss Whedon fan (his stuff is amazing). Anywho, I do think that you make a really good point here. The world itself may never end. Hey, you never know. Maybe Joss got it right.
ReplyDeleteI haven't seen Buffy or anything but from what I read, I find that other movies and shows have the same kind of trends of one person being so special. Its those movies like Space Cowboys, Independence Day, and Fifth Element that I remembered when thinkin of the apocalypse. I believe that the media is zooming in on the fears of society through the movies insisting that the world won't surely end because someone like Will Smith or Bruce Willis will find a way to allow life on earth to continue. But the one thing that is important is that we must know when and what the apocalypse is in a reasonable amount of time in order to be saved...
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