Buffy and design

One of the things I like about the Buffy TV show is the amazing design it had. Not just the various demons, but even stuff like drawings and books, which on most shows would be pedestrian at best.

The drawings in the "old books" would be really talented, even though they were shown just for a second or two. I wish I knew a resource for getting good quality scans of those drawings.

It would be cool to make an art book as, well, art. The whole book would be the Object D'art. Everything handmade. Self-designed, handmade cover. Original drawings and text on watercolor paper inside. Would be too frigging expensive, of course, only a well known artist could get a high enough price for an object like that to make it pay off financially. Of course it could be reproduced, but it would still be very expensive.

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I just have to include a little bitter rant: the one thing I don't like about Buffy is the main character. Buffy is the whiniest superhero ever. And she is so stupid.

Every time there's a major tactical decision to be made, you can count on her to make the wrong one. If she is warned that the world's most dangerous assassin guild is after her, she will abandon her friends and wander the streets alone after dark.

If she accidentally captures a bunch of vampires in a locked basement, including the most dangerous one she's met, she will go home until they find their way out by themselves instead of using the advantage to take them out.

If another slayer turns up, she will do her damndest to get rid of her, even though she could desperately use the help.

If she takes out an enemy, she doesn't make sure that he is taken out permanently before she leaves the scene. (Of course this flaw she has in common with every "hero" of film and television ever.)

Not to mention of course that the "love" of her life is... a vampire.

The bad part is that this stupidity is never pointed out by any other characters, so I can't tell if the Buffy character is meant to be that dumb, of if the writers are just not great tactical minds themselves...?

She is highly fortunate that her enemies are even dumber than herself. Generation after generation of vampires and demons, one tougher than the next, try to figure out how to kill her. It never occurs to any of them just to get a high-powered rifle with a scope sight and lie in wait by her school or house.

Interestingly, for years I thought that it was Sarah Michelle Gellar who I didn't like. But I have realized now that she is actually awfully good. So good that she made Buffy so real that I confused the two. And like the article linked below points out, you tended to overlook her because she was surrounded by a host of wonderful characters and actors.

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There are some good observations on the show here (the article has a couple of spoilers about later seasons, though).

It is a really good show. And I bought the complete seven seasons brand new on Amazon for seventy pounds. That's 143 episodes! And that's 40-minute episodes, not 20-minute ones. That's a friggin' good deal. Usually you just get one or two seasons of any show for that price.

Update:
Yeah, Buffy drinks her juice like I do: two parts orange, one part grapefruit. (OK, actually in my middle age I add 60-80% water, but the principle stands.)

Another thing about the show: it's not just a funny and gripping show, it's a good horror show. Not the least season two has several things which are just genuinly horrific. For instance the happenings surrounding Angel, and the Kindestot (child's death) creature. This is definitely not a show for kids.