Watching Buffy, Season 1, episode 1 ...
Buffy meets Cordelia in history class where the teacher is talking about the Black Death ...
Is it wrong of me to wish they'd focus more on the Black Death and actually provide the answers to some of the teacher's questions like "What social changes did the Black Death bring to Europe at that time" and "how was the Black Death an early form of Germ Warfare?"
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Did you think that when you originally watched it when BTVS was on tv, or do you just think that now?
It's a symptom of growing up and getting older..I used to watch BTVS for entertainment and Angel [natch!], now I pick it apart and wish it were deeper....sigh.
I wish I could just enjoy it like I used to.
I could probably write an essay on the Black Death in England. I grew up in the same town as the Black Death arrived from France so we got that rammed down our throats under the heading of Local History. It got worse when we got to local literature - Thomas Hardy and William Barnes!
Um Mark spends time during programmes trying to see what computer and system they are using!
Well, you now know the outcome of the meeting, so you don't have to watch it in detail, which led you to the very interesting background - and who is interested in history and wouldn't be interested in the Black Death? I did a lot of reading on it back when we had the Hanta virus outbreak in New Mexico (close cousin to bubonic, which also exists in our Western states, primarily in prairie dog towns). Besides, it doesn't get good until Angel shows up, and Cordelia didn't become one of my favorites until much later...:)
When you are in the UK next year, if you spend any time in London, check out the London Dungeon :)
AH Buffy.... I loved that show. It's constantly on a rerun here but I wish they'd make more.
You should rent the documentary called "Guns, Germs and Steel". It is fascinating and the economist who wrote it (Jared Diamond) makes some wonderfully valid points.
I have the book the doco was based on - heavy going but very fascinating reading !!!!!
Oh dear - I guess I never thought about the downside of living in such a history-laden area. We have "at most" 200 years of recorded history. Most towns have less than 150 years ....
Most of the Australian aboriginal people were nomadic who didn't even make pottery so there is very little physical evidence of their history. So no Tony Robinson coming in and digging up our front lawns in three days .....
So Rosanne, what are the social implications of the spread of the Black Death as an early form of Germ Warfare ???
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