'Buffy v Dracula' was actually the first episode I watched (properly - I'd caught bits of earlier ones), and the one that hooked me on the show. I didn't understand the Buffy mythology or know who any of the chracters were, but I certainly knew the 'Dracula' story. What sold me was the contrast between the traditional gothic horror elements, and the wisecracking Californian teenagers who were constantly undermining and subverting it... in a nutshell, that's what Buffy is all about.
That she can’t kill Dracula – another breach of Buffyverse rules - makes a perverted sort of sense since in BtVS, nothing gets solved easily or permanently just because you learn a lesson; the vampire still exists, the darkness is still there, but you learn to handle it. Which suggests a fascinating possibility - Buffy found a way out of the 'Slayer trap' at the end of Season 7, although her solution has brought its own problems. Will Dracula find a way out of the 'Vampire trap' - a way for humans and demons to establish a détente? In the rather awful and non-canon 'Spike vs Dracula' comics Dracula was acting as patron and protector to a group of gypsies, who taught him his "flashy gypsy magic", so he's got a history of cooperating with humans. If only he can be weaned off his one-Albanian-boy-per-month habit...
Well spotted on the #10 reference! I think you could be right, and the 'prince' Robin referred to that needs rescuing is Dracula, and he will end up following Buffy...
And yes, LJ's poll creation interface is truly awful. I usually end up creating the poll in a locked post with no text, then editing it to add in the text around it.
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That she can’t kill Dracula – another breach of Buffyverse rules - makes a perverted sort of sense since in BtVS, nothing gets solved easily or permanently just because you learn a lesson; the vampire still exists, the darkness is still there, but you learn to handle it.
Which suggests a fascinating possibility - Buffy found a way out of the 'Slayer trap' at the end of Season 7, although her solution has brought its own problems. Will Dracula find a way out of the 'Vampire trap' - a way for humans and demons to establish a détente? In the rather awful and non-canon 'Spike vs Dracula' comics Dracula was acting as patron and protector to a group of gypsies, who taught him his "flashy gypsy magic", so he's got a history of cooperating with humans. If only he can be weaned off his one-Albanian-boy-per-month habit...
Well spotted on the #10 reference! I think you could be right, and the 'prince' Robin referred to that needs rescuing is Dracula, and he will end up following Buffy...
And yes, LJ's poll creation interface is truly awful. I usually end up creating the poll in a locked post with no text, then editing it to add in the text around it.