Totally diagree. I often use the 2-3 computers in my office at the same time. When 1 is 'thinking' I pop over to the other. I'd be totally lost if I just had a single computer.
Its audience is teenagers. It's about vampires. Come on. You were expecting depth ? :) People once swore by M.A.S.H. being full of depth and character development, too. It's tv, not film for crying out loud.
"teenaged girls in America who need to think their absent daddies are bastards"
Name any drama show on TV that doesn't have as its characters' motivations a link to their parents. Again, no news there.
I think your review of Buffy is more about how you feel about Postrel than how you feel about the show, and how you feel about Postrel says more about you than it does about her.