Physical Address
304 North Cardinal St.
Dorchester Center, MA 02124
By Chris Snellgrove
| Announce
By Buffy The Vampire Slayer In one of the biggest shows ever made, it’s full of bonkers plot points as characters building Androids in Star Trek null and even bringing the dead back to life in chapters like “Some assembly is needed.” Eventually, the author of the David Fury show asked Joss Whedon how Heck Sunnydale residents could take such incredible feats. In turn, the Showrunner told Fury “that the Hellmouth should be able to provide anything we want to do for us; the energy that comes out of it makes crazy scientists out of human beings who then go ahead and create something bad.”
Some assembly is required
What Fury did to ask this question was that “some assembly required” included a plot point where a character managed to bring his deceased brother back to life. Intelligible, the writer found it strange that the residents of a sleepy town could take away scientific sports (including making robots as sophisticated as Commander’s data Star Trek: Next Generation) The greatest medical and scientific professionals in our own world could never achieve it. Whedon explained that it all goes back to the corrupt influence of the Hellmouth, which is great because it explains almost every inconsistency in this crazy show.
In the world Buffy The Vampire SlayerDetails of the Hellmouth are relatively thin … all we really know is that it links Sunnydale to another dimension, attracts demons, and affects the local population with mystical energy. The show has always been vague about how this energy works, but we’ve seen it bring nightmares to life, turn women invisible, and even make residents (in Willow’s words) “pray harder” because many religious people could sense its malignant influence. These things all seem relatively magical, though, and David Fury was more interested in how (as in “some required assembly”) that regular residents could become genius scientists suddenly, overnight in practice.
Joss Whedon’s answer is quiet, though, because he turns that question on his head to ask why we accept that the Hellmouth has specific powers and not others. If he can bring nightmares to life, why shouldn’t he be able to help some strange child bring his dead brother back to life? If he can make a girl invisible just because no one had ever noticed her, then why couldn’t help local residents build robots who would even impress the Captain Picard?
Ones Puff Fans (and especially haters) may say that Whedon’s explanation is a little too easy … after all, this means that the show’s authors never have to worry about breaking the rules about what can and cannot happen because there are no solid rules. However, we see that as one of the greatest strengths of the show: no two chapters of Buffy The Vampire Slayer Same because the Creative Garte writers have Blanche. At the end of the day that will always Be more exciting than a show that sagues under the weight of his own dusty rules.
“Some assembly required” is great Puff Episode, but we have always shared David Fury’s curiosity about how suddenly a randomized high school student had medical knowledge and skills. Frankenstein. Thanks to Joss Whedon, we now know that the Hellmouth can transform people into crazy scientists on top of his other magical properties. For Longtime fans, that does more than contextualizing villains once and for all … it also explains Dr.’s progress and fall. Walsh, who died in the hands of Adam, his own crazy science monstrosity.
