I watched a random episode of Buffy today because I ran out of episodes of Angel on Hulu. This episode is near the end of the second season for any of you Buffy fans. The high school swim team is nearing state champs and won the district meet, so the state meet is kind of a big deal. Suddenly though, the best swimmers are dissapearing, turning into sea monsters. Buffy and her team were quickly on the case.
The running theme in this episode is doing what’s right. The swim team is kind of a big deal, so the athletes are “special.” One of the swimmers was failing a class, and Lily (I don’t know her character name, but I call her Lily because that’s who she plays on How I Met Your Mother) starts failing him because he never showed up. The principal confronted her and informed her that it’s her job to, “cut him some slack.” Lily was not so pleased, for good reason. Why do some people get special attention? Should people get some slack? What are the conditions for people getting this special attention? The color of their skin? Their IQ? Their family? Their pay? Their gender? Their accomplishments? These are some of the question I ask myself, because we see it all the time. One example comes to mind especially because our generations coming right after the Civil Rights Movement.
Buffy and her friends all feel this way about the swim team, they get special attention, and then they are disliked for it. Is that the line? Only when someone doesn’t like it? Or should it be something stronger than that?
Politics are everything in high school, this is a great way to show what actually happens sometimes. I also took from the episode that by using steroids you turn monster like because of the way it changes your personality.
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