Buffy the Vampire Slayer

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer was a television show about a girl who fought vampires and other monsters. It was written by Joss Whedon, who based it on a movie with the same title that he wrote. The movie came out in 1992 and starred Kristy Swanson, Luke Perry, Donald Sutherland, and Paul Reubens but it was not very popular. The television show, on the other hand, had many devoted fans and lasted from 1997 until 2003.

The main character was Buffy Summers, who was played by Sarah Michelle Gellar. Buffy was an ordinary high school student in the fictional city of Sunnydale, California, except for being a "vampire slayer." Vampire slayers were girls with superhuman strength and speed. It was their fate to be the enemy of evil demons and vampires. After each slayer died, a new one was chosen. The vampire slayers were each trained by a man called a "Watcher", and Buffy's Watcher was a British man named Giles. With the help of Giles and her friends, Xander and Willow, Buffy fought a different monster every episode.

Buffy and her friends had to go to school and appear normal to their families while killing vampires and monsters at night. Many of the monsters they fought were also symbols of the problems that ordinary teens face. This is part of what made the show popular. Buffy the Vampire Slayer also had very witty dialogue, and some people said that was the only thing good about it. To prove them wrong, Joss Whedon wrote an episode that was mostly without any speaking parts because monsters stole the voices of the characters. This episode was called Hush and many people think it was one of the show's best.

Not all vampires were bad in the show. One vampire was named Angel, and he was given his soul back by a gypsy curse. The curse would make him lose his soul and become evil again if he became really happy. He and Buffy fell in love, but the curse took his soul away when they had sexual intercourse for the first time, and Angel became evil. Angel got back his soul, but he realized that he and Buffy could not be together because he might lose it again. Angel left Sunnydale and went to Los Angeles, and had his own television series, called Angel. Many people who were fans of the show from the beginning thought the Angel and Buffy romance was the best part of the show.