No.14: About Episode Analysis

Since my episode analysis is about the first and second episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 1, I watched Welcome to the Hellmouth and The Harvest again today. The character I referred to in my paper is not the main characters (Buffy, Willow, Xander, and Giles) but Xander’s friend, Jess, who was taken by the vampires in the first episode and killed by Xander in the second episode. Before he was taken, he was considered the “loser” and he only had two friends, Xander and Willow, plus Buffy, three. After he was changed into a vampire, he went to the bar and was popular among the girls. That was the difference and the difference made Jess lose his original himself. He became cold-hearted and could even turn against his old best friend.

To tell the truth, my old theme was about why being left alone would change one’s state of mind and made him want to oppose the society. However, I found out it was a difficult theme to expand and as I was writing, I tend to move my path toward friendship. And that became my ultimate thesis. I want to put some arguments among my friends and some explanation on quotes into my writing to help expand my theme to a finished paper. Then I realized no matter how fancy the words are in my mind, I can’t put them down. So my episode analysis looks kind of dry and unorganized. I’m sure that I really need some help with my paper. Hopefully, I will be able to have time to go to the writing center and improve the quality of my paper.