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Whether to kill yourself or not is one of the most important decisions a teenager can make.

Oh Heathers. It's like doing the time warp. And it's still... utterly singular.

As you might have guessed Darcy and I watched it tonight, and what I noticed was its... Buffyness. Or rather - I don't think Buffy would have been Buffy without Heathers. The twisted sensibility to the whole thing, the *language*, the subversion - Buffy used it all.

Other things... There are really no nice characters (apart from Martha - the overweight girl - and Veronica's old friend, I think her name was Betty?). The guys are either idiot jocks (main contribution: date rape. And this is shown pretty conclusively, and almost as an aside), and the 'cool' outsider turns out to be a complete psychopath. Most of the characters are mostly interested in popularity and/or which university they'll be going to. All of which is especially interesting because it's from a female POV throughout. Except Veronica isn't a saint, or a hero.

Mostly, then I just really like the subversion. J.D. might be cool, and he certainly has legitimate reasons to act out, but that doesn't excuse him. His man!pain is given zero space, and that's very good. (And there's no great love story. Just teenagers being teenagers.)

Finally, it's all very long ago and now I feel old. But I guess that's unavoidable.

/rambling