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Forced, moany angst (like that found in AtS) doesn’t equal "elegance." Buffy didn’t need to be so blantantly dark; that show had a little something called *subtlety*, which in my mind makes it much classier than this guy’s over-the-top fantasy version. There were a number of dark undertones throughout the early seasons, and, well, didja *see* season 6?
And I loved how the show would undercut the melodrama with humor. It would rip on the genre’s lovable conventions, but that didn’t make it cheesy, it made it clever. True, they were all a bit one-dimensional at first; but after seven (...)