Buffy- Halloween Edition

I thought that the Buffy episode we watched was fun and entertaining and it was a little of a blast from the past being that it was from the 90s. I remember when all of the "teenage" shows on tv were full of actors who were at least in thier early 20s, far too old to be playing high school students which was definitely shown here. In this episode there was definitely some stereotyping going on. There was the fact that the guy had to be tough because if he got shown up by the girl to the bully then he would be ridiculed forever because of it. This episode portrayed the fact that girls are supposed to be weak while the guys are the strong ones. This was definitely exaggerated when Buffy was dressed up as the 1700s girl for Halloween and she was supposed to be stupid and bow down to the men. I also thought it was funny how the shy girl dressed up wearing way less clothing then she usually would on Halloween and that is what got the guy to notice her at the end of the episode. It almost seemed like the only way she would be noticed was if she showed more skin. The whole vampire thing does directly coincide with today's moderm teenage shows and books. The tv show that I think it most resembled was that of a show called "The Vampire Diaries" where the main vampire goes to high school and dates a high school girl who knows his secret but dates him anyways because she loves him. She also get pulled into all sorts of bad situations because of this. The Buffy series probably did help build some of these vampire shows that are out today.