Thoughts on Willow's uncertain Jewishness in Buffy, and a weird attack on Beer Bad
I was sifting through my files and found a couple of pieces. One is a long essay that expresses considerable concern over the representation of Willow as Jewish (because it seems to be so irrelevant to her being when one might expect it to have rather more informing power). I think this was for a seminar series but cannot remember. The the piece is super short and looks like a companion piece to strong defence of Beer Bad. It's short and the exact opposite of sweet! Willow Rosenberg, in the very last episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer , saves the world. She does so by summoning her extraordinary magical powers and performing a spell of such magnitude that it transforms all of the girls and young women who may have become the Slayer on the death of the previous one into a Slayer now. In other words, it alters millennia of (super)-natural law and lore and, in the process, allows Buffy (the current vampire slayer) to have an army strong enough to defeat the First Evil....
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