Prophetic BtVS
Oct. 15th, 2004 04:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fpbI don't suppose they've waited for me to mention this, but...
I always knew that the Buffy writers knew nothing whatever about the past. What I did not however know that they were prophetic about the future. In one of the last episodes of Season Five, they had Anya (Joss Whedon's brilliant rethinking of the dumb blonde stereotype) spout caricatural Republican drivel from a very stupid version of the Wall Street Journal - the kind of thing one imagines George W. Bush speaking when he does not have his advisers telling him what to say via wire - and then concluding (years before the invasion of Iraq and the break with Paris): "You know what else is UnAmerican? French people."
All that was missing was "cheese-eating surrender monkeys."
I always knew that the Buffy writers knew nothing whatever about the past. What I did not however know that they were prophetic about the future. In one of the last episodes of Season Five, they had Anya (Joss Whedon's brilliant rethinking of the dumb blonde stereotype) spout caricatural Republican drivel from a very stupid version of the Wall Street Journal - the kind of thing one imagines George W. Bush speaking when he does not have his advisers telling him what to say via wire - and then concluding (years before the invasion of Iraq and the break with Paris): "You know what else is UnAmerican? French people."
All that was missing was "cheese-eating surrender monkeys."
