KoshFan
Regular
Well, it niggled at me all night, so forgive the double post:
Buffy and the Scoobies were never uncool. They were unpopular, but we know (and they eventually realized) that they are indeed cool. In fact it's one of the lessons of the show that coolness is not in the eye of the beholder. And when cool but unpopular people grow up and find their place in the world, the unpopularity falls away. They come into their own... and then realize that they have to get jobs, be parents, pay the mortgage, etc. This was the great turn of the show, away from high school and out into the world of young adulthood, and not everyone was on board with it. But the theme of the show is growing up, not being a social outcast--or at least not just being an outcast.
So yeah, they're right that Spike took over too much (until Faith got back), but I can't agree with their subsidiary points.
Edit: Except it's not a double post! Thanks, GKE!
Buffy and the Scoobies were never uncool. They were unpopular, but we know (and they eventually realized) that they are indeed cool. In fact it's one of the lessons of the show that coolness is not in the eye of the beholder. And when cool but unpopular people grow up and find their place in the world, the unpopularity falls away. They come into their own... and then realize that they have to get jobs, be parents, pay the mortgage, etc. This was the great turn of the show, away from high school and out into the world of young adulthood, and not everyone was on board with it. But the theme of the show is growing up, not being a social outcast--or at least not just being an outcast.
So yeah, they're right that Spike took over too much (until Faith got back), but I can't agree with their subsidiary points.
Edit: Except it's not a double post! Thanks, GKE!