High School is Hell

I think "High School is Hell" was really intelligent and it made me believe that the writers of Buffy the Vampire Slayer are geniuses. The way that metaphors were subtly used to describe the common difficulties teenagers face in their everyday lives and how those difficulties are real life events occurring in the lives of those on the show is something that I wouldn't have even recognized if it weren't for this article. With that being said, I think someone may have been out of work when they wrote this article. To recount specific episode and events in those episodes is something someone with way too much time on their hands would do. Has anyone honestly ever found themselves bored and said, "I'm going to go write an article about how teenagers and vampire slayers are similar in completely opposite ways. Sounds fun." I find it difficult to understand how someone could write such an educated article about something and not to be convinced that they spent more time on it than they should have.



I guess what I'm really trying to say is that, though that content of the article was great, informative, and useful if you ever wanted to watch Buffy, the author could have just as easily gotten their point across in fewer pages. I don't have anything against long articles, but when it's the same point made with an abundant amount of examples, the article becomes less interesting and more stale, which is the exact opposite thing that writers try to accomplish.