My Kid and the Vampire Slayers
Scenes from earlier this week:
M, creating his Buffy masterpiece.
Me: M, I love your drawing! Can you tell me about it?
M: Yep! See, here’s Buffy. And here’s Giles. And here’s Faith. And here’s…(continues to point out nearly a dozen characters from Buffy the Vampire Slayer).
Me: awestruck silence
M: Isn’t it great, Mommy?
Me: It. Is. Awesome.
He asked me to label each of his drawings. I did so with geek-filled glee.
No, we don’t allow our four-year-old to watch Buffy. But he did come downstairs one night while we were watching an episode, and he became so intrigued with what he saw and proceeded to ask so many questions about the show (every single day for the past four weeks) that he can now recount the main stories of nearly every season of the series.
Seriously. Nearly. every. season. of. the. series.
I just can’t get over the awesomeness of this awesomeness.
Edited to add: My husband has informed me that I spelled ‘Drusilla’ incorrectly. Shame on me.
Very, very awesome
. M is, without question, a super cool kid.
But out of curiosity – when *will* you let him start watching Buffy? I ask because this is the sort of thing I debate in my head all the time about Isaac.
Good question. And I guess I should come clean here–we did let him watch the last 15 minutes of the episode he walked in on. And it must have been a pretty benign episode since he became obsessed with the show (and not scared).
But yeah. Eight? Nine? I don’t know. I mean, some of the earlier high school episodes are so campy and fun that I don’t think they would be entirely inappropriate for a younger child. But some of the later episodes are quite scary (Hush and the one where Buffy goes to the house with the serial killer vampire come to mind.) And the sex stuff might be hard to explain to a young child (even though I fully intend to explain sex well before the boys turn eight or nine!).
On that note, Tim and I do dream of the day when we can watch Buffy as a family.
Oh, don’t worry – I’m sure Isaac’s seen way more than fifteen minutes of shows he’s too young for
Gretchen and I were talking about this last night. Right now Isaac is really into monsters and I think they are very real to him – like an animal he just hasn’t seen in real life yet. So I feel like he would definitely take a show like Buffy and not at all be able to separate out fantasy from reality and therefore just be sacred to death. And, you know, he’s two. So we have a few years before Buffy
. But we, too, would love to share the fun of Buffy with our family.
WOW. This is full of awesome. (I know this is sooo late – just been waylaid b a backed-up feed reader.)
I just want to appreciate some details – that Buffy appears to be in her temporary mouse form, that Faith seems to be sporting some bodacious tatas, and that Angel has stupid hair.
I hope Lily will some day be doing the same!
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I hadn’t even noticed Faith’s boobs. These kids, they’re so damn perceptive…