Buffy’s cast and crew remember the show on its 20th anniversary

I was 13 when I first discovered Buffy The Vampire Slayer.

Friday, March 10, is the 20th anniversary of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The cast of Buffy has shared new details in a flood of recent interviews in honor of the twentieth anniversary. “And lastly, but most importantly thank you to all of you, the fans”.

Buffy: “Thanks for having confidence in me”. And I especially think about “Buffy” and Buffy when people get shocked that Teen Vogue is publishing pointed political content, or every time a story about a girl doing something incredible and unusual goes viral. Although I appreciated seeing a diminutive young woman being physically powerfully, the whole show for seven solid, inspiring seasons, provided glimpses of strong, female characters who smashed stereotypes. “It’s about giving the audience what you think they need”. “I say we party!”

That would have thrown a wrench in the never ending Buffy/Spike or Buffy/Angel debate.

Marsters calls the day they shot the scene the hardest day of his professional life.

With a newly acquired superpower of telepathy, Buffy has a hell of a good time hearing everyone’s thoughts around them – how guys think of her, what the teacher is expecting, etc. “You aren’t going to jump at just something that would be an awesome episode of ordinary television”, she says. “Close your eyes”, Buffy tells the only man she’s ever loved, just before stabbing him, and us, right in the heart.

Buffy: “What, they were all out of boils and blinding torment?” That’s the vicarious experience that we’re offering. Angelus is a killer foil for Buffy, and his transformation sets the stage for their inevitable and heartbreaking showdown in the Season 2 finale.

Even now, 18 years after my mom’s death, I can make it feel like it was yesterday by watching those episodes-that’s how powerful they are. And that doesn’t quite work so well.

As it turns out, Tom Lenk, who played Andrew, added that himself. (Giles/Anya ‘shippers unite!) Spike: “I must be a noble vampire”. But his answer to the question is far more nuanced and intriguing. What I really needed to see was that it was also OK if I wasn’t. “I regret that. Oops, oops”.

Genre television shows tend to get better with time, as opening episodes are overburdened with character exposition and world building. Spike had a lot of maturing to do.

Not so much a Buffy empowerment episode, but it’s actually her once-cuddly-now-evil-and-vengeful best friend Willow’s time to shine. If I could condense the theme of Buffy into three words, it’s those: “‘Don’t give up.'”, Marsters said.

The great animating joke that inspired “Buffy”, of course, was the idea that a high school cheerleader with a fluffy Pekingese dog of a name would turn out to be the world’s savior. “Mom? Mom?. Mommy?” The opening credits roll, and if you aren’t sobbing already, you must be dead, too. I immediately connected to dish-washing Buffy.

“Doppelgangland” – Season 3You could make an argument for The Wish, in which Cordelia (with a boost from Anya) summons an alternative version of Sunnydale into being, where vamps, including Xander and Willow, run amok. Obviously our trusty Timelord predates Buffy by a number of decades, let alone years, but its current revival began in 2005, just two years after the Scooby Gang faded from our screens.