Subject List

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This post contains subject ideas for meta essays. Please post as many ideas as you wish in the comments.

To Suggest a Subject

All subjects must be related to the Buffyverse - that is the world created by Joss Whedon in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. This currently covers the TV shows and the S8 comics, but not other comics, tie-in-books or the film.

Suitable subjects might include:

• Considering individual characters, their motivation and character.
• Discussing the detailed ideas behind plot points.
• Discussing overall themes or season arcs.
• Fandom trends and behaviours, providing the essay has particular reference to the Buffy fandom and how the Buffyverse subject matter itself affects that behaviour.
• Anything else at all. Basically the sky is the limit as long as it is clearly related to the Buffyverse.

To suggest a subject idea, simply add a comment to this post. One subject per comment. Remember, anyone can make a suggestion even if they don't intend to write an essay. If you do intend to write an essay, please be sure to suggest at least two or three subjects (in separate comments) so we all have a wide range of choices.

Ideas should be no more than a sentence or two long - the idea is to stimulate the writer into writing an essay, not dictate exactly what they write or write the essay for them. Think of them as questions on an exam paper. Only more fun to answer.

There is nothing to prevent you eventually signing-up to write an essay on a subject you yourself suggested, but all subjects must be suggested here first.

There is no final date for suggesting subjects - keep them coming.

To Claim a Subject

Subjects can be claimed from Monday 18th June.

You should first have reserved a date from the date selector.

Then reserve your subject by adding a reply to that comment stating the chosen date.

If the subject you wanted is already taken, you may still write a second essay. Simply add a comment that you will be doing so to the subject. You will have to post on the date chosen by the original taker. (Please be sure to delete your 'taken' comment from the date selector unless you decide to use it for another essay.)

You may sign up for as many essays as you wish.




Please do not add any comments to this post that are not actual suggestions for essays or comments claiming a subject to write. All questions and general squee should be on other posts. Anything else will have to be deleted.

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/peasant_/]

Was Spike unique? Discuss instances of 'good' behaviour in un-souled vampires other than Spike.

[http://users.livejournal.com/peasant_/]

The Buffy fandom in ten years time - what do you consider the fandom will be like in the future?

[lusciousxander.livejournal.com]

Explain Giles' behavior in season seven as objectively as possible, using examples from the earlier seasons to support your writing.

[lusciousxander.livejournal.com]

Buffy and Xander's friendship - what do you think of it? Was it strong or unhealthy?

[http://users.livejournal.com/peasant_/]

Magic in the Buffyverse - are there underlying themes and structures and if so what are they?

[http://users.livejournal.com/peasant_/]

The Watchers' Council - good or evil?

[thatotherperv.livejournal.com]

I'd love to see an essay exploring Angel's somewhat contradictory relationship with pop culture...sometimes he's clueless, sometimes he's in the know. is there a pattern? what might be the reasoning for knowing the things he knows?

[shapinglight]

I have one! I have one!

Who wears the trousers, Angelus or Darla? Discuss.

[aycheb.livejournal.com]

Vampires: predators or parasites?

[aycheb.livejournal.com]

How do you explain my darkness now?

The first Slayer was created by forced exposure to the dark essence of a demon. Current Slayers have gone to some pretty dark places. Is this evidence of an underlying demonic nature or due to individual human flaws?

[sueworld2003.livejournal.com]

The Initiative, logical answer to the Demon world?

Does the Buffyverse still need such an organization even now?

[moscow-watcher.livejournal.com]

I'd love to write about Spike and Spuffy fanfiction: why the couple works both as comic and tragic; why they beg for a plotty fiction; how the depiction of the couple was changing with years.

[aycheb.livejournal.com]

Tripping over the light fantastic.

Who's the best dancer in the 'verse? And the worst? Does the devil have all the best moves?

[stormwreath.livejournal.com]

Compare two individual episodes which share a similar theme, one from an early season and one from a late one. How do they differ in the way the theme is used?

For example:
'Out of Mind, Out of Sight' from S1 and 'Gone' from S6.
'Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered' from S2 and 'Him' from S7.
'Lie to Me' from S2 and 'Lies My Parents Told Me' in S7.
(or nominate your own pair).

[stormwreath.livejournal.com]

How does the characters' changing fashion sense and wardrobe reflect the developments in their personalities?

[candleanfeather.livejournal.com]

Books and librairies in Btvs. The study can be restricted to one season for length sake.

[candleanfeather.livejournal.com]

The different concepts of vampires used in BTVS (vampire=demon in a human shell; vampire= a liminal creature between human and demon; vampire=demonized human)and how these different vampires are used in Btvs.

[stormwreath.livejournal.com]

How much of what Jasmine said was a lie?

[stormwreath.livejournal.com]

How could Faith's fall into darkness in season 3 have been prevented?

[stormwreath.livejournal.com]

Natural family versus created family in the works of Joss Whedon.

[stormwreath.livejournal.com]

A detailed examination of a Slayer's powers, adsking what are the exact limits of what they can do. How much of Buffy's abilties were unique to her rather than being part of her mystical heritage?

[truly-tazi.livejournal.com]

Beyond Joss. A look at canon created by people other than Joss Whedon, ie. actors, other writers, etc.

[azdak.livejournal.com]

"People are gonna die. Girls are gonna die." (Buffy, S7). Examine the special status of "girls" in the Buffyverse.

[http://users.livejournal.com/woman_of_/]

Magic, a positive force, or an additive one. Comparing Tara's use of magic with Willow's in season 6

[http://users.livejournal.com/woman_of_/]

A Soul does not a good person make. Human evil in BtVS or AtS