The BUFFY guide to the Internet - 1997 style
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
In an interesting article from last year, Martin Belam looks at the Internet as it was depicted in the 1st-season Buffy episode I Robot, You Jane. The plot concerns a demon that lives inside the internet, and Belam uses the episode as a kind of time capsule to explore the tech and technophobia of the Clinton era. (As Belam points out, that's actually the most interesting aspect of the episode. I, Robot is pretty rough going, even for Buffy's first season.)
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2 comments:
Um... I really liked that episode :(
Oh, it's not unwatchable or anything. I have some affection for all the episodes in the first season, but I think that season was generally pretty rocky compared to what came later. And I don't think anything in the first season was as bad as some of the stuff in the FINAL season.
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