In one of the finest examples, the last episode of the first season, Willow walks into the school's AV room and finds her techie pals have been slaughtered by vampires. I go to that room every day. And when I walked in there it wasn't our world anymore. They made it theirs. But the WB's decision did break faith, with the talented people who put the show together and with the audience that has responded to it.
Parents start by questioning their kids' clothes, or their taste in music or friends.
They impose curfews. By the end of the show, certain they can root out the evil in their midst, they're ready to burn their own rebellious kids at the stake. The murdered children turn out to be two demons who have appeared over the centuries just to set off this kind of paranoid frenzy. I understand that networks and movie studios are under intense pressure now from the government and from organized groups of very vocal people who are certain that media violence causes real violence, even though there's never been a shred of proof to show that it does. People who make arguments based on unproven assumptions deserve to be taken about as seriously as Britain's Flat Earth Society.