In this episode of Buffy, the 'lesson to be learned' was one which I was familiar with actually because of the movie Spiderman. Buffy has to directly confront the problem that she cannot lead a normal teenage life if she is going to embrace her destiny as the slayer. I was reminded by Spiderman because Peter Parker suffers the exact same dilemma where he struggles to keep his college and social lives together due to being a superhero. They also made their so far trademark connection to teenage life as Buffy is a teenage girl struggling to keep together all of her responsibilities. Because in high school teenagers often struggle with the increase in responsibility.
The episode consists of a new character - Owen - who Buffy in time develops a crush for. Meanwhile, the vampires have a new plot to create an ‘Anointed One’ - some monster who would surely reek havoc on Sunnydale. Buffy plans a date with Owen, but can’t make it because she must fight off the rising of the Anointed One. (Her greater responsibility gets in the way of her normal life.) Owen follows Buffy not realizing the danger, and is almost killed. Only to be saved by Buffy, and Owen’s reaction is not quite what I expected. Instead of being terrified, or completely ignorant like most not-main characters. He embraces the ‘vampire world’ and wants more. But Buffy realizes by involving herself with him she is putting him into to much danger, and she tells him they cannot be together. This directly parallels the first and second movie of Spiderman. Maybe later on it will parallel the third and they will be able to be together?
This episode has a worthy lesson to be learned, and I can’t state it better than the quote from Spiderman - ‘With great power comes great responsibility”
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