Grimm Realities

The article, Grimm Realities, focuses on the vulnerability of children. The article shows how in three different episodes, children were being killed. All of the episodes centered around fairytales. This seems like a strange thing to center the episode around because we think of fairytales as stories with happy endings for the children. In these episodes teenagers were, "left isolated and vulnerable to forces beyond their control " (Bridges 99). Even though the episodes were not all about little kids, it shows how teenagers are still kids. In the episode "Killed by Death" Buffy was shown as a kid again. I liked how this episode showed Buffy as a kid, because I think everyone feels very vulnerable when they are sick. Everyone wants to be taken care of when they are sick just like they were when they were little kids.