Buffy - a Few Good Slayers [possible satire]
I learned more from my students than I have from my teachers.
Abstract
The Demonic underworld is held under tight control in a forked version of the Buffy universe where the Scooby Gang all ended up happier and more powerful, and men and women have equal opportunities when it comes to fighting Demons. A new class of tenth grade (sophomore) students start the three year demon-fighting program in the scholastic year of 2014/2015 in Sunnydale High School, while the older Scooby Gang, who are their teachers and mentors, have to deal with the usual set of problems that come with being teachers, parents, spouses and adults.
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Version control repository for the screenplay’s source on GitHub. It is useful for cloning, sending pull requests, and filing bugs/issues in the bug tracker
Licensing
This work uses some characters and concepts from the Buffy universe by Joss Whedon and others, from other copyrighted works, and from works that are already under the Public Domain.
All the text in Buffy: A Few Good Slayers is original, and as far as I’m concerned can be used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial ShareAlike licence Unported (CC-by-nc-sa) (either version 3.0, or at your option any later version), but like I said, the situation is more complicated than that.
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Credits
Sources of Inspiration
First three seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic - a great show and ecosystem with a very strong influence on the screenplay.
Last Action Hero - an excellent film crossing reality and fiction. Especially see the trailer for Hamlet starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Gödel, Escher, Bach - a very good book about the relationship between fact and fiction among other things.
Harry Potter - the series of books provided a lot of inspiration.
Tiny Toon Adventures - the format of the screenplay was likely inspired by it.
Buffy Summers Facts, Summer Glau Facts, and Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny .
Wayne’s World - “We’re not worthy! We’re not worthy! We’re not worthy!”.
Equal Rites on the Discworld.
The Three Musketeers - Provided inspiration with its Milady de Winter and other things.
Spaceballs on the Wikipedia and the Spaceballs Wiki - in my screenplay, Becky sees Princess Vespa as a role model for her image as a Jewish-American Princess.
“Almost Worthy” quote based on a quote from the novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë.
Links to Judaism and Israel
Israeli Images - it’s not all desert, not all Jews there are orthodox, it is an industrialised country, and people there lead happy, peaceful lives.
“Dispelling some Myths about Israel.” - an essay I wrote.
Define “Zionism”! - an essay I wrote about: 1. Why Zionism now has several meanings. 2. What Israel is doing wrong? and - 3. How people confuse anti-Zionism, anti-Israelism, and anti-Semitism.
A solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict - another essay of mine.
Psychological Bicameralism on the Wikipedia - explains about Julian Jaynes’ theory about the emergence of human consciousness (meaning “sentience” - not “awareness”) relatively late in history at around 1300 BC to 300 BC, presented in his book which makes a good read from the historical perspective and similar perspectives, whether or not it actually happened.
Coverage
On the /r/buffy subreddit
See Also
Selina Mandrake - The Slayer - a Buffy the Vampire Slayer parody, antithesis, and modernisation.
Buffy Facts - facts about Buffy Summers from the show.
Thanks and Acknowledgements
TODO: FILL IN.