When Buffy is leaping around doing her martial arts stuff like a Chinese dancer on speed, she’s rarely wearing jeans and a tee shirt, or combat fatigues, or some other item of attire that would be eminently more functional. She’s usually wearing a party frock. And because she’s wearing a party frock, I always imagine that she would be wearing shoes with heels. And that raises two questions:
1. Wouldn’t the heels be something of an encumbrance to all the high kicks and back flips?
2. Given the strength she supposedly has, wouldn’t a well aimed heel dispose of a vampire just as surely as a pointed stick? So why bother with a pointed stick?
In fact, if a pointed stick is the simple expedient for disposing of vampires, why not carry a longer one and skewer the beast before it’s in range to kick back? I seem to recall having similar objections to several scenes in Harry Potter.
And I’m only making this post to demonstrate that, notwithstanding the darkness of the hour, and the darkness of the day, and the almost unremitting darkness of my mood, I’m still capable of making a sensible and insightful one.
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