buffy the tear jerker

I don't know if you saw the cloud writing in the sky about a week ago, but I finished BtVS. I can honestly say that this show is amazing and the most feminist thing I have maybe ever seen? Besides Ladies and Gentlemen the Fabulous Stains, maybe. What are some other through and through, true blue, feminist movies or tv shows?

Well, the thing about the slayer is that she has all this power, like superhuman strength and just knowing things like a genius general or whatever but the catch is that there's only one slayer. Actually, there are two in the show because Buffy dies in the first season but then comes back to life. In the two seconds or whatever that she's dead, another girl gets all the slayer power but doesn't lose it when Buffy wakes up. There's this whole thing where Buffy goes back to ancient ancient like mudhut times and talks to the dudes who trained the original slayer and they offer her power but she rejects it because she says they only created the slayer for their own protection and didn't help the slayer enough or treat her like a human or something. But then it turns out that in addition to the dudes there was also some goddess cult watching the slayer from afar and they had forged some amazing ax/stake/scyth weapon for the slayer and buffy finds it just in time. which is all great. but the thing is that all these girls who are potential slayers, because there's a million of them all over the world just waiting to be activated, have been showing up at her house for protection from some eyeless badmonks who are knocking them off one by one, so she has this little army that she's been training to fight the impending apocalypse thing. and her best friend is a witch and she does this witch thing where she takes the slayer power and the scythe and transfers the slayer strength and power and whatnot to every girl in the whole world and buffy gives this speech, it's a voiceover you hear, "every girl who can be a slayer, will be slayer! every girl who can stand up, will stand up!" over this montage of a girl standing up to an abusive boyfriend, or like a little girl playing some sport or whatever with a fierce little look on her little face. and then the slayer-be army totally kicks ass and it's great and buffy's done this awesome democratic thing by sharing her power but it also works out for her cos now she's not the only one.

anyway, that was likely as incoherent as as it was long.

the point is, even thinking about that part makes me cry.

i love buffy the vampire slayer.