Echo becomes Ajax; Iphigenia fails to become Buffy, poor thing

Dollhouse characters. L to R: Paul Ballard, Victor, Echo, Sierra, Topher Brink, Adelle DeWitt, Boyd Langton (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

I know for a certainty that there are many other things I should be doing, but am enjoying writing about Dollhouse and Sophocles way too much to stop. Would Sophocles have survived if he'd had to write serial television? Can character development ever = character stasis? Does an ensemble TV series ever = Oedipus? Just how classical is Whedon?
However, today I will put off these questions because working on Iphigenia and Buffy. So, still having fun.

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Whedon meets Euripides, redux

Finally having some time free, after teaching, marking, submitting, seeing family, and collapsing,  my colleague and I are tackling our "Sacrificial Virgins" paper again.  For some reason this has been surprisingly difficult to finish; after 3 days' work we realised this was because we were trying to fit in every single thing either of us had ever thought about Buffy, Euripides, or Sacrificial Virgins.

On reflection, however,  it is quite possible that we will write again on tragedy, pop culture, virgins, or some combination thereof, so some of  these thoughts can surely go in the next paper.

We have therefore after long and careful thought produced an outline for the current paper, which I shall reproduce here since, as article outlines go, it is a model, a succinct template which I am sure will be useful to many others.  In the interests of serving the needs of our colleagues, as little as possible has been withheld to protect our results before publication:

Happy New Year, all.

Sacrificial virgins

Took the day off Homer to work on the conference paper I'm collaborating on for the Slayage conference in July in Vancouver, with my friend Lauren, who is doing all the actual work, including finding the bibliography, bless her.   We now have an outline that could easily produce a 90-minute lecture.  Trim out 80% of it, add some pictures, and we're done.  Only we have some hard choices to make.  Is the whole paper about River Tam?  Or Buffy?  Or Winifred Burkle? Or should we skip Whedon entirely and just talk about Iphigenia, and leave the Whedonverse application as an exercise for the reader?

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