ABSTRACT
The final chapter, “Endings and re-enchanted time: what comes after,” ends the book with the nonlinear and chaotic elements of storytelling in the later seasons of Buffy and in the episodic confusion of Dollhouse. The chapter also looks at ideas of time, especially the concepts of sacred or enchanted time versus secular or disenchanted time, and the way that fan practices around time travel dramas like Doctor Who can be understood as a way of re-enchanting time and narrative. This kind of thinking leads to a reframing of religion and television-viewing as related lived practices rather than engagements with a coherent and unchanging set of texts. These new practices of imagining time and texts—at the intersection of science fiction, religion, fan culture, and speculative physics—offer new imaginative possibilities for thinking about human possibilities.
