Buffy

I never really watched Buffy the Vampire Slayer, I was more of an MTV person. I found it extremely hard to watch Buffy due to the fact that all I could think about was Alyson Hannigan in American Pie and Sarah Michelle Gellar in Cruel Intentions. As everyone knows both of those movies are pretty dirty and clips from both of them kept running through my head while watching Buffy. It was slightly weird to see those two women playing the role of teenage girls. Even though Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Graceling don’t have much in common the two main characters do. Katsa and Buffy are both teenage girls who are lacking a “normal” life. Katsa kills or harms people when the king orders her to and Buffy kills vampires. They are both young but very mature in certain ways for their age. In society it is unusual for females to play to role of the protector but both of these girls do it as if it’s their duty to do so. Because of this they escape the stereotypical views of women and that gives the teenage viewers a sense of empowerment. Most importantly both Katsa and Buffy have a massive amount of physical strength and could harm whoever they’d like but they control themselves.