I always completely forget when I have blogs and I never remember to write in them so since it looks like it's been close to a month since the last time I updated I guess now would be as good a time as ever.
I just wanted to point out a few things I noticed between watching Buffy and watching Aliens. I came to notice how both adaptions both did things in a bit of a stereotypical way.
Now I am the biggest fan of Buffy. I know the show inside and out left and right. I sat at a comic con for 12 hours (which anyone who knows me knows that something called comic con is not a place where I belong) in order to see James Marsters and spent all that time and the line got cut off 10 people ahead of me. Completely besides the point but my point is that in all honesty it's been a while since I've seen an episode of Buffy (a friend of mine borrowed all 7 seasons the moved to madison and had them for the past 2 or 3 years) but from what i remember and from watching that episode in class Buffy really is just a normal teenage girl (blonde at that) and Joss Whedon makes her into this killing machine basically and there is absolutely no evidence what so ever if you met this girl on the street that she could potentially be a slayer. You can see her innocence and niavety in the episode we watched as well. She's young she hasn't figured out her life yet.
But then you come to Aliens and have the main character of Ellen Ripley who is this super plain person who really has no super powers of any kind. And she's not suppose to have any super powers. That's not the type of movie it is. But it sort of comes down to even though she's not quite like Buffy's character she still has an innocence to her where she was more or less just thrown into this alien world and now has to pretty much save the planet. Now I've never seen the first Alien movie and obviously we've only watched part of it so far however if she has any training my guess would be it's just basic military training and isn't exactly alien friendly training. So even though these are both completely different characters they both sort of need to figure out what to do with their lives from this point on. Buffy is just starting out and Ripley lost 57 years of her life.
