#14

The episode I chose to rewatch was the first episode of the fourth season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, "The Freshman." This is the episode where Buffy first goes off to college. Willow and everyone else is enjoying it and exciting about everything while Buffy is just overwhelmed and not sure what she thinks of it  yet. Buffy meets a friend, Eddy, one night and the next day she comes to find that he is missing. She finds it odd that he is gone and she finds out that he left a note on his bed saying he couldn't handle it anymore. The next night she thinks she spots him on campus and runs up to him to find he has turned into a vampire. She kills him when he tries to attack her and then the head vampire, Sunday, that captured Eddy and killed turned him into a vampire is there to find that Buffy is a slayer and tries to kill her. I think this episode shows a lot about women in power and stereotyping. Two of the most powerful women in the episode, Buffy and Sunday, are young, blond, small, petite girls who many people look up too. These two girls have a lot of power in the show. Buffy is the chosen one, a slayer, you realize when you watch the show that everyone has a lot of confidence in her. When Buffy goes to Giles to notify him on the missing student he tells her she "is old enough and experienced enough to handle it herself" and when she tells Xander of the whole situation he tells her that when ever he is alone or freaked out he always things "what would Buffy do," and that she is his hero. Sunday has a lot of power to all of the other vampires in her crew would never think to disobey her and she is in charge of when they eat who they eat and what they do. This is what is happening in the real world too, women are rising to places of authority and power, stereotyping is different than in the past.