SMART AND RISK-TAKING，BUFFY BIDS FAREWELL AFTER SEVEN YEARS

    纵横7年，“魔法奇兵”说再见

    One of television's smartest dramas ever is about to end its seven-season run, and even if you've never seen a minute of Buffy the Vampire Slayer—and think the name's idiotic—you'll just have to take my word for it that TV is better for its having been here.

    At the peak of its popularity, Buffy, a show about a girl whose destiny was to fight the undead, averaged just 5.26 million viewers a week. But the show created by third-generation television writer Joss Whedon kicked far more butt than its numbers would suggest, drawing an audience that ranged from urban teens to ivory tower academics and inspiring any number of discussions about the nature of good and evil, situational ethics and the price women pay for wielding power. ......