Buffy 1.3

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Episode three The Witch, we have a mother who steals her daughters youth, she believes she's wasting it, so she trades bodies with her, meanwhile Buffy try's to join the cheer team to continue on her journey for normalcy.  


     Buffy believes that if she joins the cheer team, she will begin to feel like a normal girl, but of course it doesn't take long for them to realize someone of the team, Amy, isn't just a normal girl either. Amy's mother took over her daughters body so that she could relive her glory days as a cheerleader, it seems to me that the mother doesn't like her daughter very much, and thinks she wasting her youth. This shows that the mother is selfish, she wants to stay young, and live out her younger years again, and take the chance from her daughter to live them even once. 



     Cheerleading has been  stereotyped as a lady's sport, that if you're a cheerleader you're labeled as snobby, mean and have a clique of girls who follow those same lines. Buffy is not one of those girls so she doesn't take to the team too fast because she is trying to figure out what's going on with Amy. Buffy try's so hard to be a "normal girl" but she isn't a jumping, pompom girl, she's a slaying vampires, rolling through the graveyard kinda girl, so watching this episode of her trying to be someone she isn't was interesting because that's exactly what the mother was doing, trying to become her daughter, a young girl, someone she isn't. 

     Every episode has Buffy kicking someone's ass, and then comes Willow to help and even Giles is there with some input, but never Xander. He notices that and even with everyone knowing he is no help to the cause, he still says one liners like "I got her" as saying he got Amy when she was really her mother and escaped him.. so he didn't get her, but they let it go because its Xander. Buffy's episodes portray gender as a construct and that anyone can be the strong one, and anyone can be the weak one, that the slaying of monsters isn't only a mans job, that a young woman like Buffy could do it, with the right people by her side as well.

     Although Cheerleading is factor is the episode, and an important thing Buffy see's as being able to live normal high school experience, she also is having her other high school experience, chasing down the supernatural. Amy and her mom are clearly bad terms, her mother tells her she's living in a carcass of a body, meaning Amy has no life, at the end of the episode her mother wants to cast a spell so Amy can stay boring forever... 


Amy and Buffy looking at Amy's mothers legacy as a cheerleader


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  1. Nerymar cruzMarch 9, 2020 at 1:24 PM

    This episode seems pretty interesting and fun because I love how cheerleaders are portrayed in movies and TV shows. It looks like they used the same old tactic of the cheerleaders description. Cheerleading is more than just popularity and friends. Pop culture has created a mindset of cheerleaders that is stereotypical and non realistic.

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