According to the Official Buffy Watcher's Guide, Whedon wrote the pilot to the TV series as a sequel to his original script, which is why the show makes references to events not occurred in the film.

According to Whedon, Buffy " had been brewing in for many years " before finally appearing in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer film played by Kristy Swanson.

According to Buffy creator Joss Whedon, the introduction of Dawn in Season Five was partly so protagonist Buffy Summers could experience a " really important, intense emotional relationship " with someone other than a boyfriend.

According to Buffy studies scholar Gregory Stevenson, the Master has such confidence in the prophecy that the Slayer will die that he is unable to comprehend her resurrection by Xander.

According to Buffy scholars, the Master is a classic villain.

According to Wilcox, Buffy can hardly understand Giles ' language, much less the Master's " pompous, quasi-religious remarks ".

According to Jana Riess, author of What Would Buffy Do ?, " Kobol " is an anagram of " Kolob ", only one of many plot points Larson has borrowed from Mormonism.

According to Buffy scholar Roz Kaveney, episodes in the third season address various forms of betrayal.

According to two Buffy essayists, part of the horror stemming from the arrival of The Gentlemen is the silence that makes the people of Sunnydale helpless, easy victims.

According to author Kevin Durand ( 2009 ), " While Buffy confronts various forms of evil during each episode, each season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer had its own ' big bad ' villain who dominates throughout the season.

According to author Jan Jagodzinski, the battle between Buffy and the evil Master is " the central issue of season one "; The Master, like all the " big bads ", is a " symptom of postmodernity ".

According to Buffy scholar Rhonda Wilcox, the themes of maturation and facing adult responsibilities begin with the departure of Buffy's boyfriend Riley Finn six episodes before, and crystallize in the preceding episode in which Buffy realizes she does not need a boyfriend to be fulfilled.

* According to Joss Whedon, Jenny Calendar's death serves notice to fans, first, that no one is safe, death is scary and real, and second, that Angelus is not " just a little evil ," he's not " grouchy ," he's truly evil and Buffy needs to address the situation.

" According to Richardson and Rabb, " Faith is finally seeing herself as Buffy sees her and is even harder on herself than Buffy has ever been.

According to Irving Howe, Orwell was " the best English essayist since Hazlitt, perhaps since Dr Johnson.

According to Eliot Weinberger, an American writer, essayist, editor and translator, Kosiński was not the author of The Painted Bird.

According to Eliot Weinberger, contemporary American writer, essayist, editor, and translator, Kosiński was not the author of the book.

According to poet and essayist Tudor Arghezi, Caragiale also admired the works of Ştefan Luchian, a Postimpressionist whose paintings were often exhibited in Bucharest galleries.

According to essayist Mike Rogers, he is " the first Japanese comedian to venture into taboo subjects like the Imperial Family and make a mockery of Imperial Japan.

According to cryptozoologists Loren Coleman and Patrick Huyghe, authors of the Field Guide to Lake Monsters, " African guides found large, unexplained tracks along the bank of a river and later in a swamp the team heard mysterious roars, which had no resemblance with any known animal ".

According to law professor H. Patrick Glenn of the Canadian McGill University, located in Montreal, Quebec, " oday it is said that the dhimmi are ' excluded from the specifically Muslim privileges, but on the other hand they are excluded from the specifically Muslim duties ' while ( and here there are clear parallels with western public and private law treatment of aliens – Fremdenrecht, la condition de estrangers ), ' or the rest, the Muslim and the dhimmi are equal in practically the whole of the law of property and of contracts and obligations '.

According to former Prime Minister Patrick Manning, the nation is the financial capital of the Caribbean, and being so heavily reliant on the oil and energy sectors, fosters and facilitates an environment of constant demand for specialized jobs. In addition, the Natural Gas sector is for the first time facing competition from countries such as Qatar and the United States.

According to an ancient legend, the ground on which Finglas stands had been sanctified by St. Patrick, who is said to have uttered from it a prophecy that a great town would arise at the ford of hurdles in the vale beneath.

According to Justice Minister Laurette Onkelinx and Interior Minister Patrick Dewael, the suspects ( 11 of whom were members of the military ) were preparing terrorist attacks in order to " destabilize " Belgium.

According to Sir Patrick Neill QC, the vice-chancellor, Macmillan ' would talk late into the night with eager groups of students who were often startled by the radical views he put forward, well into his last decade.

According to Patrick Jung, leaders on both sides had little chance of avoiding bloodshed at this point, because the militiamen and some of Black Hawk's warriors were spoiling for a fight.

According to Muirchu, Logaire was so impressed by Patrick ’ s devotion that, despite his defiance ( or perhaps because of it ), he let him continue his missionary work in Ireland.

According to Patrick J. Montana and Bruce H. Charnov, the ability to attain these unique powers is what enables leadership to influence subordinates and peers by controlling organizational resources.

According to a quote on the agency's website, Patrick's goal " is to help girls ( and guys ) in the business to be treated with respect, and realize their true potential ...." She also owns a production company called " Teravision ," which along with Vivid Video released its first feature, " Desperate ," starring Patrick and Seinfeld.

According to tradition, Saint Patrick, patron of Ireland, studied there in the fifth century.

According to local mythology, the Rock of Cashel originated in the Devil's Bit, a mountain 20 miles ( 30 km ) north of Cashel when St. Patrick banished Satan from a cave, resulting in the Rock's landing in Cashel.

According to Patrick Robertson's Film Facts, " the earliest pornographic motion picture which can definitely be dated is A L ' Ecu d ' Or ou la bonne auberge " made in France in 1908.

According to a memo sent by L. Patrick Gray, acting FBI Director, to H. R. Haldeman in 1972: " Sources in Miami say he ( Sturgis ) is now associated with organized crime activities ".

According to the Doom 3 manual, GUI designer Patrick Duffy wrote over 500, 000 lines of script code, and generated more than 25, 000 image files to create all of the graphical interfaces, computer screens, and displays throughout Doom 3.

According to Patrick Arnold, due the drug's potency, he never had to supply significant quantities to BALCO, because " just a couple of drops under the tongue " were a sufficient dose.

According to her biographers her parents were Dubhthach, a Pagan chieftain of Leinster, and Brocca, a Christian Pict and slave who had been baptised by Saint Patrick.

According to The Independent journalist Patrick Cockburn, " cooperation between Mr Basayev and the Russian army is not so surprising as it sounds.

According to Patrick Madrid, author of Pope Fiction, a book about the legend of Pope Joan, Pope John VIII himself may have been the origin of the legend.

According to many writers the road to Rathfarnham follows the same route as the Slighe chualann, the ancient highway, which in the time of Saint Patrick was used by travellers between Dublin, Wicklow and Wexford.

According to tradition, when Christianity spread to Ireland during the mid-400s, Armagh became the island's " ecclesiastical capital ", as Saint Patrick established his principal church there.

According to the Annals of the Four Masters, in the year 457: Ard Mhacha was founded by Saint Patrick, it having been granted to him by Daire, son of Finnchadh, son of Eoghan, son of Niallan.

According to author Patrick Seale, " every party worker, every paratrooper sent to Hama knew that this time Islamic militancy had to be torn out of the city, whatever the cost ..." The military was mobilized, and president Hafez al-Assad sent Rifaat's special forces ( the Defense companies ), elite army units and Mukhabarat agents to the city.

According to former Mullen boss Patrick Nee, Paul McGonagle was enraged by the murder of his twin brother.

According to Patrick McGilligan's 2003 biography, Alfred Hitchcock, who directed the 1935 film adaptation of The 39 Steps, preferred Greenmantle and considered filming it on more than one occasion.