Justification

According to Chris Snellgrove
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While Buffy The Vampire Slayer It is one of the biggest programs ever created is full points Bonkers, such as the characters that build Androids in the Star Trek style and even bring dead back to life in episodes, such as “some assembly”. Finally, the writer David Fury asked Joss Whedon how the residents of Sunnydale could pull out such amazing performances. The demonstration again said Fury that “Hellmouth should be able to provide us with anything we want to do; the energy that comes out of it makes crazy scientists from people who then go forward and create something evil.”

A certain assembly was required

What made Fury ask this question was that “some assembly” was a conspiracy point where the character successfully brought his deceased brother back to life. Of course, the writer found that it was bizarre that the inhabitants of the sleepy city could pull out scientific performances (including robots as sophisticated as data on the commander from Star Trek: Another generation) that most veteran and scientists in our own world could never achieve. Whedon explained that it all reaches back to the corrupt influence of Hellmouth, which is brilliant because it explains almost every inconsistency in this crazy show.

In the world Buffy The Vampire SlayerDetails of Hellmouth are relatively sparse … Everything we really know is that it connects Sunnydale with another dimension, attracts demons and affects the local population with mystical energy. The show has always been vague about how this energy works, but we have seen how the nightmares bring to life, turns the girls invisible and even make the inhabitants (according to Willow’s words) to pray, because many religious people have been able to feel its malignant influence. All these things, however, seem relatively magical and David Fury was more interested in how (as in a “some desired assembly”), ordinary inhabitants could suddenly become brilliant scientists, practically overnight.

But the answer of Joss Whedon is quietly brilliant because it turns this question to the head to ask why we accept Hellmouth, who has some forces and not others. If it can revive the nightmares, why shouldn’t it be able to help a strange child to revive his dead brother back to life? If it can do an invisible girl just because no one ever noticed her, then why couldn’t it help the locals build robots who would even amaze Captain Picard?

Some Buffy Fans (and especially hate) could say that Whedon’s explanation is too easy … After all, this means that the show writers never have to worry about violating the rules of what can and cannot happen because there are no fixed rules. But we see it as one of the largest strengths of the show: No two episodes Buffy The Vampire Slayer They are the same because writers had a creative carte blanche. At the end of the day, it will be always Be more exciting than a show that sags under the weight of your own dusty rules.

“Required by some assembly” is great Buffy The episode, but we always shared the curiosity of David Fury about how a random high school student suddenly had medical knowledge and skills of Dr. Frankenstein. Thanks to Joss Whedon, we now know that Hellmouth is able to convert people into crazy scientists at the top of his other magical qualities. For long -term fans, this makes it more than contextualized one -off villains … also explains the rise and fall of Dr. Walsha, who died in the hands of Adam, her own crazy scientific monsrosion.