{"id":1642,"date":"2011-07-05T12:00:14","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T00:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/?p=1642"},"modified":"2011-07-05T12:00:14","modified_gmt":"2011-07-05T00:00:14","slug":"make-em-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/make-em-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Make &#8216;Em Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my wonderful Imaginary Readers wondered how on earth I could get hooked into a show <a href=\"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/20\/point-click-21\/\">when they kill off a cool character<\/a> &#8211; was\/am I a sick perv for getting hooked so?<\/p>\n<p>Back in the day, I was an occasional watcher of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer_(TV_series)\" target=\"_blank\">Buffy the Vampire Slayer<\/a>.  Thanks to Wiki, I know that I started watching from the middle of season two onwards, and I don&#8217;t know whether it was the vampire killer schtick, the witty asides and\/or the realistic interactions that kept me tuning in.<\/p>\n<p>And then&#8230; a character who seemed established and part of the Scooby Gang freakin&#8217; <b>died<\/b>.  I hadn&#8217;t experienced that in serial television in, like, for<b>ever<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>What.  The.  Frak?<\/p>\n<p>As I found myself mourning the loss of a character along with the characters on the little screen, I realised a couple of things:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; there&#8217;s some serious shit you could do with television drama (and a horror fantasy to boot); and<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; they made me freakin&#8217; <b>care<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>WTF, indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my wonderful Imaginary Readers wondered how on earth I could get hooked into a show when they kill off a cool character &#8211; was\/am I a sick perv for getting hooked so? Back in the day, I was an occasional watcher of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Thanks to Wiki, I know that I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/make-em-care\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Make &#8216;Em Care&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[210],"class_list":["post-1642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scriptwriting","category-television","tag-buffy-the-vampire-slayer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}