{"id":192,"date":"2004-09-21T21:40:32","date_gmt":"2004-09-21T21:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/wp\/?p=192"},"modified":"2013-03-07T18:05:32","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T02:05:32","slug":"into_each_gener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/into_each_gener\/","title":{"rendered":"Into Each Generation a Fan is Born"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Will Xander finally wake up to Cordelia&#8217;s feelings? Who exactly is Angel (a good vampire?), and will we find out why he&#8217;s so hot and mysterious? And what exactly happened to the high school gymnasium in L.A. that blew it up (did I miss the feature film)? And man, if Giles got it on with the &#8220;Slayer&#8221;&#8230;(That&#8217;d be crazy!). But don&#8217;t tell me, I&#8217;ll find out on my own. For now you may smirk from your seen-the-full-run-of-the-series pedestle at my feeble conjectures.<br \/>\nBecause ya, I bit the bullet&#8211;with the help of a generous lend from a friend&#8211;and I&#8217;m going to try to &#8220;get&#8221; what all my film professors and pop-culturally-minded friends had raved about for years. So far I&#8217;ve made it through the first four episodes of Disc 1, <em>Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Complete First Season on DVD<\/em>.<br \/>\nI admire the female lead and the politics it entails (though I&#8217;ll need to think about them more closely); I like the subtle pastiche and self-reference; I&#8217;ve smirked in mild amusement at the old sitcom cliches; I can even stomache the not-so-subtle teen drama (though the plethora of mini skirts aren&#8217;t too difficult to handle) and painfully-crude fight scenes.<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t let the title of this post fool ya; my final opinions are forthcoming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will Xander finally wake up to Cordelia&#8217;s feelings? Who exactly is Angel (a good vampire?), and will we find out why he&#8217;s so hot and mysterious? And what exactly happened to the high school gymnasium in L.A. that blew it up (did I miss the feature film)? And man, if Giles got it on with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1431,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions\/1431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}