Lack Of Communication In Buffy The Vampire Slayer

The episode "hush" from the highly recognized television series "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" is one of the most if not the most intriguing episodes of the series’ seven-year run. In a way, it became a story of its own, containing a beginning, middle, and an end. Everything seemed new, new problems, monsters , and most importantly secrets. Secrets which the characters hope to keep to themselves or just blatantly do not know how or who to tell. In the episode "Hush" the idea that communication is key, is a metaphor for what is hidden behind the mask of our characters. Communication, therefore, represents what is not told.

One of the best examples of the lack of communication lies with the relationship that Buffy and Finn have. A relationship built on top of many lies. Both Buffy and Finn seem to like each other, yet they never quite tell each other how they feel about one another. Maybe it has something to do with fear, fear that they are getting too close or serious too fast, which leads them to back off one another. Another reason may be that they never really told each other

who they really are or what they actually do. Finn is an agent who got himself in the monster killing business, while Buffy was practically chosen to kill monsters, demons, and other scary creatures lurking in the dark. Although both characters choose similar career paths they actually have no idea that either of them does what the other does.

Besides the lack of communication within the relationship of Buffy and Finn, the group is just as well experiencing the same thing.

Xander and Anya are the prime examples for this problem. Just like Buffy and Finn, Xander and Anya do not show their true emotions to each other. They always seem to be bickering at each other over the smallest of things, even as they are dating. Rupert and Olivia also seem to have the same communication problem, although theirs seems to have been going on for a much longer time. Their main problem seems to be work, they are always placing it above all other things material or emotional. On the other hand, Willow and Terra want to learn more about witchcraft although they are going about it all wrong. Willow seems to want a group, while Terra is an outcast, the worst part is that both of them do not know one another. Not even the fact that both of them are

witches.

Another thing affecting the team's communication are the gentlemen, who steal human voices in order to kill their victims in their sleep and to go undetected. A humans scream is also the only known thing to kill them, it also has to be real not mechanical. In order to communicate with one other, all the characters start writing to each other or try to communicate through hand signals. Through this, they start to show how they truly feel about each other. Buffy and Finn finally kissed to show each other that they cared and as a way to tell one another to stay safe. Xander and Anya are another couple whose actions speak louder than words. For example, Xander punches a vampire named Spike because he thinks that Spike is sucking Anya's blood when in reality she is only asleep and Spike is only cleaning up. Yet another pair of people that the Gentlemen helped were Willow and Terra. In a way the Gentlemen brought them together, which led them to finally meeting one another and finding out who they actually were.