Whedon stated: " The Origin comic, though I have issues with it, CAN pretty much be accepted as canonical.

Whedon stated " Rhonda the Immortal Waitress " was the first incarnation of Buffy in his head, " the idea of a seemingly insignificant female who in fact turns out to be extraordinary.

It is unclear whether they resume their sexual intimacy during the third night ; creator Joss Whedon says on the DVD commentary for " Chosen " that he intentionally left it to the viewers to decide how they felt the relationship progressed, though Whedon had earlier stated on the commentary he personally felt having them resume a sexual relationship would send the wrong message.

In a 2011 interview, Whedon stated that his decision to kill off Giles could not be discussed in detail " because ripples from that event " will also be a large part of both Buffy Season Nine and Angel and Faith.

It was stated that Anya would return in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer season eight comic book series, even with Joss Whedon telling MTV that she was " definitely dead ... but that doesn't mean she's gone.

Joss Whedon stated that Dawn was originally going to be a younger character, which the writing reflecting this, but after Sarah Michelle Gellar suggested Trachtenberg for the role they raised her age.

Joss Whedon stated in November 1998 that " Sunnydale is in fact near Santa Barbara.

Joss Whedon recognized this when he stated in an interview that killing Jenny, and the manner of her dispatching, was precisely devised to make several points.

Series creator Joss Whedon called it a " strange, sort of schizophrenic season " with a " weird incoherence ", but also stated that the episodes in the fourth season were among the series ' best.

Groener stated that when he tried to play the Mayor too dark or evil, Joss Whedon or other directors would ask him to tone it down, take it easy and make the part " real nice ".

Whedon stated that he was unaware of how " inevitably coherent " this theme was until after the script was completed.

Whedon stated that the maze of red curtains on the stage in Willow's dream are not a direct homage to Twin Peaks, as some have posited, but rather represent the safety and comfort of being with her girlfriend Tara, and are a sexual metaphor as well.

Series creator Joss Whedon stated on the Season 6 DVD that the true Big Bad was life itself, and how as time goes on, it becomes more and more people's worst enemy.

Creator Joss Whedon later stated that one of the reasons he chose Sutherland for the role was the fact that she exuded a warm demeanour, as well as what he believed to be a close resemblance to actress Sarah Michelle Gellar, who was to portray her daughter in the series.

Joss Whedon stated on the DVD commentary how surprised he was at the response from viewers who wrote to say that the episode allowed them to accept the death of a close family member, even if they had not acknowledged it for months or years.

Whedon stated that these mini dream sequences were like documentaries ; people who find their loved ones dead are desperate to imagine a different, better outcome, and they create fantasies that cause much more pain when they are forced to return to the harshness of reality.

According to DVD commentary, Joss Whedon stated that he himself was originally written to play as reoccurring character Badger.

Whedon and the writing staff had been considering developing a story arc in which a character explores his or her sexuality as the Scoobies left high school, but no particular effort was made to assign this arc to Willow.

Following protests angry about the death of Tara, Whedon and the writing team made a decision to keep Willow gay.

" Whedon openly wonders why his identification figure is a woman, but describes it as " a real autobiographical kind of therapy for me " to be writing a strong female character like Buffy.

It was also nominated for Best Writing — Screenplay Written for the Screen for the work by Joel Cohen, Pete Docter, John Lasseter, Joe Ranft, Alec Sokolow, Andrew Stanton, and Joss Whedon making Toy Story the first animated film to be nominated for a writing award.

Whedon appreciated Lynch's writing of Spike in Asylum so much that he commissioned him to co-write the canonical continuation of the series, Angel: After the Fall, in 2007.

The writers with the most writing credits for the series include: Joss Whedon, David Greenwalt, Tim Minear, Jeffrey Bell, David Fury, Steven S. DeKnight, Mere Smith, and Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain.

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Whedon declared Faith the writing team's first " really human monster ".

Thus, writing and producing " Hush " depended almost solely on visuals and not on dialogue, a prospect that Whedon found terrifying, worried that viewers would find the episode boring.

While talking about the writing of the episode, Whedon said it had been like writing poetry, a process he found " liberating and strange ".

From the start of writing the Buffy series, Joss Whedon asserted that it would never have a " very special episode " as in contemporary series Beverly Hills, 90210, The Wonder Years, or Party of Five, where the core cast of characters addresses a single issue ( AIDS, drug abuse, or alcoholism, for example ) and resolve all the problems at the end.

When Willow and Tara first met in the fourth season, the writers did not intend the relationship to be romantic but the actors had such chemistry that, two episodes later, Whedon and the writing team took Alyson Hannigan and Amber Benson aside to inform them where it would go.

On February 11, 2006, Dirk Wood of Dark Horse Comics confirmed at the WonderCon convention in San Francisco that Joss Whedon was writing another Serenity comic.

" Whedon himself claimed this to be an error in writing, as Willow and Xander have been best friends since childhood, and she already knows all about the Harris family.

In IDW's Angel: After the Fall, Spike does not appear until the second issue, written by Brian Lynch with art by Franco Urru ( the creative team of Spike: Asylum and Spike: Shadow Puppets ) with plotting and " executive production " by Whedon himself.

After a change in scriptwriters from Levinson ( August 1941 to December 1942 ) to the team of Whedon and Moore in January 1943, the confrontations slowly subside and a true friendship slowly blossoms.

In planning for the third season, series creator Joss Whedon and the team of writers for the show sought to explore the issues of the abuse of power, and the choices people in or with power make.

" Whedon intended Willow to be realistically introverted, saying " I wanted Willow to have that kind of insanely colorful interior life that truly shy people have.

Whedon admitted he was upset by Green's announcement and that if he had wanted to continue, Oz would have been a part of the story.

The character of Buffy was created to subvert the stereotypical female horror film victim ; Whedon wanted to create a strong female cultural icon.

Whedon always intended for the character to become an icon, claiming " I wanted her to be a hero that existed in people's minds the way Wonder Woman or Spider-Man does, you know?

" Whedon explained, " We wanted a much darker show, darker in tone.

Whedon killed off Giles where he did so that it might have a greater effect on the coming season, " because wanted to make all this matter ".

Whedon introduced Dawn to the series because he wanted to introduce a character with whom Buffy could have an intensely emotional non-romantic relationship.

After much discussion, Whedon and the writers decided that Angel should not bite Jenny, but instead break her neck as a show of his contempt for her: " I'm not even going to feed " is the attitude Whedon wanted to communicate, as well as Angel's evident pleasure in the act.

Joss Whedon was approached by Eden Studios to create surnames for Faith and Kendra to use in a Buffy the Vampire Slayer role-playing game, and chose " Lehane " for Faith, because he wanted something " southie ".

Whedon wanted Adam to be inquisitive and introspective, directing George Hertzberg to " find the stillness " in the character.

Whedon wanted Adam to be inquisitive and introspective, directing George Hertzberg to " find the stillness " in the character.

The episode served as a coda to the fourth season instead of a climax, as Whedon wanted to achieve something different for a season finale.

Previous seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer had ended with an action episode which tied up all the threads of the season's main plot line, but series creator Joss Whedon wanted to end season four differently.

Whedon originally wanted to use rear-screen projection for the driving scene, but had to utilize greenscreen instead, as rear-screen projection would be difficult to set up on their stages.

In 2001, Whedon told an interviewer, " I knew I was going to kill Joyce, and I knew that what I wanted to capture — because I had lost my own mother — was that weird dumb grief and the various reactions that people have to death.

Although the fan base wanted Buffy and Angel to be together romantically, Whedon says, " What people want is not what they need.

Whedon wanted to show a relationship like that that was not a parent-child relationship.

Whedon wanted to give the audience time to " breathe " before being hit with commercials, but a true black would automatically cue the ads.

* Whedon knew he " wanted to kill somebody ... brutally and suddenly and never really pay it off.

* In the DVD commentary, Joss Whedon says that he wanted Angel to exit the show exactly like he entered, backing out into the darkness behind him.

Joss Whedon had long wanted to kill off a major character the first time they joined the main credits.

" Whedon says that Angel is about redemption, " something you fight for every day, so I wanted him to go out fighting.