Fear the princess screamed

Wilcox’s article on the T.V. series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, specifically the “Hush” section is a provocative depiction of this television series. He makes detailed analogies of the episode with his comparison of it to a good fairytale, i.e. the princess, the evil doer, the hero, and the resolution.The evil all white gentlemen in this episode are wearing suits, evoking a power, money connection to the viewer, almost a bad boy group of guys to be dealt with by an empowered female."We are shown these dead, white, well to do upper class, old fashioned males spreading out across the town and taking over.” This quote is fascinating because typical fairytales whether creepy or not may have had good looking, white well-off, males in the story. As youngsters, viewers can identify strongly with that type of guy power, and more specifically girls who identify a certain type of white male in a sexual fantasy. This could be in the form of the good person Riley, Buffy’s love interest, to the floating suited gentlemen entering your bedroom, the opposing bad villain. As viewers watching the series know, the show is full of emotional hits. Buffy had a sexual relationship with Angel, a vampire/still with a soul kind of guy. Her departure here from adolescent girl, to adult in college shows another emotional connection a female audience would identify with. Buffy has dreams that prepare the viewer for intrigue to follow. In her dream she kisses Riley, her sexual interest and a good boy. After kissing him, the monster white males come and she has the power to destroy them –this too is seductive and compelling. She realizes later after she and Riley have destroyed the menace, that the substance of the relationship was not just the kissing and fighting. It is interesting that it is not just the white male villains who take on the fairytale role and cut your heart out.