The birth of a vampire is a painful and disorienting experience for the vampire. But it does not take long for the confusion to give way to a clarity about their nature, an assuredness that seems to come from a connection to something greater than themselves. Some vampires rise from the grave with this clarity, others require the taste of human ( Read more... )

So in my last post I analyzed the text, using semantic network analysis; in this one I'll be looking at the social structures of the Buffyverse in Welcome to the Hellmouth. and The Harvest combined. If you're not familiar with this type of study, it basically consists of describing the relationships among the members of a group. The software then ( Read more... )

It occurs to me that there are members of coffeemakers who are friends of Plin or just folks who may not know me and my own brand of geektitude. I go by Masquerade the Philosopher on teh internets, and during the course of my BtVS and AtS viewage, I managed to squeeze philosophical geekery out of many an episode and character. I put my analyses in a website: < ( Read more... )

Welcome to Coffeemakers That Think: A project for world domination! masqthephlsphr and I have been talking about this project for a while, so we are very excited to begin.

To summarize: we're going to be rewatching Buffy the Vampire Slayer from the beginning, and taking a look at the different themes, motifs, ideas, philosophies, etc. that we notice. In other ( Read more... )