Re: [BNW] Buffy Summers aka The Slayer

[john@kript.demon.co.uk (John Constable)]

On Fri, 10 Sep 1999 02:23:08 EDT, you wrote:

>In a message dated 09/09/99 19:29:36 GMT Daylight Time, kilfoilm@nbnet.nb.ca 
>writes:
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><<Oh, I donno..  there are times when her moves aren't all that fancy,
>acrobatic or swift -- just a plain ol' punch or kick.>>
>
>While I take your point I'm still sticking to my guns that's she more Bruce 
>Lee than Mike Tyson ... remember Bruce was no ten stone weakling, but you 
>couldn't call his fighting style *strength-based*. Sure sometimes Buffy uses 
>just a punch and kick, but overall her style is martial arts led, surely?

No!  Surely not!  Kick boxing yes, Martial art, no.  As you never see
her do any moves outside of strikes, I would classify it as brawling,
with acrobatics.  don't even get me started on how long it took her to
pick up her "martial arts"
(wanders off muttering about 8 years training and only scratching the
surface.....)

>
><<Well, I don't know about the books, but she fights daemons for a living,
>and she has commented a couple of times that she "does not bruise
>easily" and "heals quickly"..>>
>
>Thinking about it Armour 2 isn't excessively powerful and your argument makes 
>sense. You have to bear in mind that over in sad, backward Blighty the BBC 
>has stalled the series half-way into series II and so we're quite a few 
>episodes behind you guys. Hence, the need for us hardcore Buffy saddos to 
>indulge in the books ... that being said, while no works of great literature, 
>most of them are a cracking good adventure read (certainly better than the 
>couple of Star Trek novels I've forced myself to read over the decades!).
>
Ahh Sky one, how much do we love thee?
(for the americans on the list, its a satellite (but I get it through
Cable, confused?) channel...

John "just joined, er, how did this thread start?" Constable