The Great 'Which Universe Would I Rather Inhabit' Tournament Introduction and Round 1, Match 2

The Great 'Which Universe Would I Rather Inhabit' Tournament Introduction and Round 1, Match 2

Buffy vs Battlestar Galactica

Oh I’m so glad this isn’t a ‘Best Show Ever’ tournament. I’d be here for hours.

Universe of vampires and monsters vs Universe of killer robots.

In the Buffy universe, all your worst nightmares are true. There are vampires, werewolves, killer female praying mantises, and much more besides. But there’s also everything your dreams were made of. I.e. magic. True, not everyone is a great caster, and there’s no guarantee I would suddenly, or ever, develop a true skill at it, but it’s nice to know that it’s within the realms of possibility. It’s a dangerous world certainly, with all the creatures of the nigh roaming about, albeit mostly around Sunnydale (and anywhere else with a Hellmouth), but then again so is the sleepy village of Midsomer. And as Xander proves week in, week out, even those without the hint of any supernatural power can defeat the forces of evil.

In the Battlestar Galactica universe (technically our distant past), there are twelve colonies to live on (briefly before you’d have to flee) and then a desperate fight to stay alive in space. It’s a universe when humanity’s distant ancestors have successfully created machines to serve us, but the machines have rebelled and want revenge (strange, that’s never happened before in any other story). The space travel and eventual settling on Earth is a very exciting prospect (just like Red Dwarf in fact), and I’d be living in a world with much more advanced technology than our own. Plus, they have faster-than-light technology, and if it’s a universe that allows those physical laws to be broken, it’s a universe with endless other possibilities. It’s a bloody bleak place though, more so than any other universe other than that of the Terminator.

So who wins? Well, as I’ve said before (or said similar anyhow), even though I’d love to travel the stars, a world where I can save the world from monsters and use magic is a difficult one to beat, and therefore Buffy knocks out Battlestar.

Winner: Buffy

So, after two rounds, the tournament bracket looks like this:

Red Dwarf	Heroes
Heroes
Buffy	Buffy
Battlestar Galactica
Star Wars
Aliens
Elder Scrolls
Terminator
Narnia
Ultima
Star Trek
Middle Earth
Firefly
Marvel
DC
Doctor Who