Jamie: Buffy was brilliant because it perfectly combined hip popculture-influenced dialogue, three dimensional characters we really cared about, an interesting supernatural mileu that respectfully stuck to every monster-mythos law it introduced, seriously weighty, often tragic storylines that were hardly ever resolved after one episode, frequent injokes referencing past minutiae that fans loved, clever metaphysical metaphors for everyday teenage angst and a strict adherance to an almost spiritual cause/effect belief in that every action these characters performed had relevant consequences somewhere down the line.
What Hill St. Blues was to cop shows and St. Elsewhere to the medical genre, Buffy was to the teen drama. It broke all the rules, pushed all the envelopes and never for a second looked down on it’s audience or dumbed it’s stuff up for the masses. It defined how good TV could be for it’s era, turned Generation X into Generation Hex, knocked the smile off of Generation Why Not's smug face and gave us a true understanding how Choices lead to Actions which dictate Characte
That’s my short answer to your question.
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