"Everyone who made it through adolescence is a hero."

-Joss Whedon

Joss Whedon is a personal hero of mine and I tend to take a lot of what he says as a my own personal gospel in a sense. I did not start watching Buffy until a few years after it had finished it's run and after I had seen Firefly and Serenity. I bought the first season of Buffy on a whim after finding it at a used DVD store for a good price. I had no idea that it would be one of the most important purchases I would make. The depiction of high school in Buffy is nothing like my experience on the outside. Buffy uses a lot of high school cliches, but through the use of them Whedon explores deeper themes of adolescence that really makes growing up the most difficult part of modern life in America.