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Friday 21 May 2004, by david:P : Wow....someone’s getting very hot and bothered without actually watching the showFriday 21 May 2004, by June : Oh, go back and watch your "reality" shows! It’s people like you who proliferate the *MAKING* of that disgusting drivil that someone’s decided to call "entertainment" these days!Friday 21 May 2004, by Deb. : Buffy was a sitcom? Geez, who’da thunk it! Perhaps if Mr. Creel actually *watched* an episode or two of Buffy, he’d have known it wasn’t a sitcom. What a dolt. Friday 21 May 2004, by Brady : Wow. For a guy who is complaining about people who think they can be heroes without "even knowing where Europe lies," he has no problem spouting off without knowing a thing about BtVS. There’s no metaphoric context? What show was he watching? Oh wait. He wasn’t watching! So it’s hard to know where Europe lies, when you barely glance at the map. Friday 21 May 2004, by Martin : Now that was funny! I can’t believe anyone would bother to write into a newspaper or whatever and write such drivel! This is probably from someone who wastes their life watching soap operas... that really did make me chuckle :)Friday 21 May 2004, by BlueSuzanne : Pfft. That’s all I have to say. No wait, also: Crack a book sometime, rather than stewing in your own sad, self-involved, arrogant, ignorant and miserly juices. There. Done. Friday 21 May 2004, by Anonymous : You are obviously trying to extoll your own intellectual merit by bashing those of the Buffy-writers, etc. and the reference to Sysiphus is so obvious and shallow its sad. If you actually watched Buffy, you would know that the characters are frequently seen displaying an impressive vocabulary, as well as demonstrating a keen knowledge of literature and culture. In this age of garbage television and empty pop-culture, I am proud to be a fan of Buffy and Angel, as they represent the last vestiges of intelligent, creative entertainment. Hey, the Greek tragedies and the writings of Shakespeare were entertainment, education and culture, but I don’t see you running them to the ground. Friday 21 May 2004, by Anonymous : Well sir, everyone is entitled to their opinion, even if it is contrary to yours. It’s called Freedom of Speech!Friday 21 May 2004, by Mike : "The article extolling the spiritual virtues of the heroine of the show "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" IS ONE MORE EXAMPLE OF THE ABILITY OF SPEAKERS TO SAY THE MOST LUDICROUS THINGS AND THE PRESS TO PUBLISH THEM." Sounds kinda familiar. Friday 21 May 2004, by Anonymous : Ok, whatever. This guy takes the show way to serious.Friday 21 May 2004, by Anonymous : I should have said in my earlier post that I was addressing Richard Creel from Salisburypost. I am a HUGE Buffy fan, but the author IS correct, the series did extol pornography and witchcraft. Some people believe that is wrong, I am one of them, but I loved other aspects of the series. Just because someone disagrees with your opinion doesn’t make them automatically wrong, and, you don’t have to resort to getting personal and name calling. That is simply immature. None of us are right 100% of the time. Again, I love Buffy, but I am one of those who believe that you don’t have to have sex in everything to make it good. Look at Second Hand Lions, that was excellent! There was no sex or obscenity and it was a great film.Friday 21 May 2004, by Brandi : Hello? Buffy is not a ******* sitcom. It is a drama that happens to have much better humor in it than most of your situationa comedies.Friday 21 May 2004, by Anonymous : he’s from north carolina, what does he know??Friday 21 May 2004, by Anonymous : In Buffy, both sex and especially witchcraft had consequences, sometimes dire. The show doesn’t extol it, but simply presents a world where it exists. An IMAGINARY world. The show "extols vampirism" too, I suspect? Anyway, Secondhand Lions was a terrible movie and I can’t believe you’re comparing it to Buffy. And Free Speech is open to everyone, including "j**k**ses". That’s kinda the point.Friday 21 May 2004, by D : I have to agree that much of this is nonsense. Many, many episodes of Buffy and Angel featured strong and often obscure literary, philosophical and metaphorical references. I also very much doubt they could be classified as sitcoms. Buffy and Angel most certainly did not centre around the themes of violence and action but did feature complex emotional themes. This letter reads as if the writer has never actually watched more than five minutes of one episode. However, it does take time to build up a thorough understanding and empathy with the characters and their deep complexities, so I can understand the mistake of thinking B+A are shallow if one had seen very little of the shows.Friday 21 May 2004, by Anonymous : ah, the frustrated, easily annoyed intellectual...an uncommon species, but easily as irritating as the more common dumb loudmouth. i think mr. creel needs to relax a little bit and be a little less judgmental about things that he’s rather obviously never seen.Saturday 22 May 2004, by DurangoKid : Pearls before swine?Saturday 22 May 2004, by Anonymous : Three Words; Go to Hell!These comments are an anwser to this article : Letter : No virtue in ’Buffy’
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