There’s one thing that I found interesting about this article. The author compares BtVS’s “Hush” with the Beatle’s movie The Yellow Submarine, in which a man is living in a drug induced world and crazy beings create terror, and then the Beatles save the day. In the movie, the crazy beings, called the blue meanies, and their army go around “steal[ing] the sound and color from everything and everyone” (Moeller 98), whereas in “Hush,” the Gentlemen stole only the citizen’s voices, not their color. The thing that I realized while reading this was the blue meanies and their army were the only thing the movie with color while in Buffy, the Gentlemen were the only things without color. They were the epitome of pale, decked out in black suits and seems like they hadn’t been to the dentist ever, judging by their black gums. The author was able to find all of these parallels between “Hush” and the Yellow Submarine, yet here is something that is completely opposite.
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Ya the Gentlemen stole voices, while they had none of their own. The blue meanies stole color, while they DID have some pigment of their own. I think the silentness and unknownness of the Gentlemen was something created to make the creepier. It worked in my opinion.
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