Buffy the Vampire Slayer
| Television series | |
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| German title | Buffy the Vampire Slayer |
| Original title | Buffy the Vampire Slayer |
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| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Year (s) | 1997-2003 |
| length | 42 minutes |
| Episodes | 144 in 7 seasons ( List ) |
| genre | Drama , fantasy , horror |
| idea | Joss Whedon |
| production |
Gail Berman Sandy Gallin |
| music | Nerf Herder (theme song), Christophe Beck , Shawn K. Clement , Robert Duncan , Thomas Wander |
| First broadcast | March 10, 1997 (USA) on The WB |
| German-language first broadcast |
October 9, 1998 on ProSieben |
| occupation | |
Buffy the Vampire Slayer ( Buffy for short ) is an American television series based on the idea of Joss Whedon . It was aired as Buffy the Vampire Slayer (German: Buffy the Vampire Slayer ) in March 1997 on The WB for the first time. It's about the vampire hunter Buffy, who is endowed with mystical powers and who, together with her friends, fights against dark forces - including vampires and demons in particular - and the problems of growing up. The series spawned seven seasons, a spin-off ( Angel ) and several comic series . The series received a predominantly positive reception; it is often ascribed a cult status .
Idea and basic concept
Joss Whedon wrote a film script about the fact that the girl in a horror film does not run away screaming, but defends herself. Since Whedon includes a lot of dialogue wit in his scripts, much of the director Fran Rubel Kuzui understood a lot as pure comedy. This made the film ( Buffy - The Vampire Killer ) with Kristy Swanson as Buffy involuntarily strange and went down in the cinema at the end of 1992.
When Gail Berman was looking for new series for the then relatively young network The WB, she came across Buffy. Whedon was allowed to produce a 30-minute demo. Since no one except Whedon believed in success, she managed to position herself as a producer with the creative decisions as the most important decision-maker. A two-hour pilot film and ten episodes were produced, but the series did not go on air in autumn 1996, but only in spring 1997 and was extended in summer. For Buffy, Joss Whedon started his own production company, Mutant Enemy .
The budget was very low, especially in the first few seasons. Whedon attached great importance to the narrative technique from the beginning, because the trick technique and the actors could not compete with other series. When filming began, Anthony Stewart Head (Giles) was the only one with a major acting past. Nevertheless, most of the actors turned out to be a stroke of luck. Only the actress who played Willow did not live up to expectations: she was exchanged for Alyson Hannigan after the original pilot film, which never aired .
In addition to Whedon, the production team for the first season included former X-Files producer Howard Gordon ( 24 , Da Vinci Code ) and David Greenwalt (X-Files) as writers. In the course of the later seasons of Buffy and the later spin-off Angel , other authors such as Tim Minear (X-Files, Titan AE ), Jane Espenson ( Star Trek , later Gilmore Girls , OC, California ), David Fury (X-Files, later Lost , 24), Steve DeKnight (later Smallville ) and Drew Greenberg ( alias , Lost) joined the team of authors. The attraction for the scriptwriters was often the fact that Buffy allowed them to put their own stamp on their episodes. For example, particularly funny episodes are mostly from Jane Espenson.
background
In addition to arguments with demons and vampires, which are often metaphors for real teenage fears, it is also about normal youth problems and growing up. Because of the many different themes, 'Buffy' cannot be assigned to a genre. Some episodes are very humorous; others focus on horror, action, drama or soap. The genres are mixed up in many episodes.
In addition to the metaphors for fears of young people, topics from superhero comics are also often taken up. This is done through conversations between the characters, who often compare their situations to those from comics or films, or point out how the heroes would solve similar problems. Entire storylines were also taken from comics. For example, Dark Willow from season six is the Buffy version of the Phoenix saga from the X-Men comics. This close connection comes from Joss Whedon's youth, when he grew up with the X-Men comics. Buffy is also inspired by Kitty Pryde . There are further allusions and cross-references in numerous directions of pop culture.
The characters grow and evolve from teenagers to adults over the years. None of the characters is invariably good or bad, and all of them make morally wrong decisions in the course of the series. Wrong decisions from past seasons are often brought out and discussed. Many viewers grew up with the characters and developed parasocial relationships.
Frame story
The frame story is about - in the broadest sense - the eternal battle between good and evil, which is fought by a single, chosen vampire hunter. The series tells of the early 16-year-old hunter Buffy Summers, who moves to Sunnydale, California with her mother after her parents divorced. There she meets new friends, a new guardian (trainer) and learns that the city was built on a hellhole (gate to hell).
The hunter
In every generation, a girl is chosen by higher powers to protect the world from demons and vampires. When one slayer dies, the next is called from among the potential slayers. Most of the time, the girls have been training for years. Buffy was only discovered after she had already received her powers from the forces.
The origin of the huntress lies in the beginning of the time when the earth was still ruled by demons. In Africa the shadow men endowed a girl, the first hunter, with the power of a demon. In doing so, however, she also lost her humanity and developed animal instincts. In the course of time the hunters became somewhat weaker and the animal instincts decreased. The myth tells that among many unknown girls, Joan of Arc (Joan of Arc ) was a chosen one.
The huntress has supernatural powers, particularly keen senses, self-healing powers and prophetic dreams.
The Guardian Council was formed to train the hunters. Each hunter is assigned a guard who trains them and supports them in the fight against evil.
Charisma
In the US, the series ran for The WB for the first five years. Warner was undecided whether to let Buffy end or sign for more seasons. This resulted in the end of the fifth season also functioning as the series finale. When UPN became interested in a sequel, The WB got into Buffy’s poker game. For the sixth and seventh seasons, the series was sold to UPN . This prevented crossovers between Buffy and the spin off Angel . Angel was only allowed to appear in Buffy at the end of the series.
UPN later described the purchase of Buffy as a bad investment because the series was too far advanced for a new audience. Joss Whedon and Sarah Michelle Gellar thought they had told everything after seven years and were looking for new challenges. Even when looking for a slot for further spin-offs, there was no interest on the part of the television stations, despite stable audience numbers and loyal fans. The series has been available in stores in a complete box with all 7 seasons since 2010.
Buffy was shown in Germany on ProSieben until the end of the last season . The first three seasons were shown on Saturday afternoon. With the start of the fourth season, there was not only the thematic change from high school to college, but also the change from broadcasting time to prime time on Wednesday. Depending on the airtime, some scenes with violence were censored.
The series has been available on DVD since April 2010, and a complete box with all 7 seasons has been available since October.
Awards
Despite the high artistic recognition, especially the scripts, and multiple nominations, Buffy never got an Emmy Award in the main categories. Buffy had the greatest chance with the musical episode Once again with emotion . Here, however, there was a glitch and the result did not appear on the ballot papers. Buffy writer David Fury won the Lost episode award. Joss Whedon was nominated for an Oscar for Toy Story . However, episodes regularly appeared on various top lists of critics. The Saturn Award was won three out of seven nominations and the Hugo Award once , both coveted prizes for TV and mystery series in the USA. In 2018 the series was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame .
characters
Buffy
Buffy is a simple, normal girl with problems just like any other her age. She often feels overwhelmed with her “job” as a hunter, because she wishes to lead a life like a normal teenager.
Buffy Anne Summers was born in 1981 to the only child of Hank and Joyce Summers and grew up in Los Angeles. She was very popular at her school there. In ninth grade, she learned from her first guardian, Merrick, that she was called to be a Slayer. Buffy kept her calling a secret for the time being. Merrick died in the annihilation of an ancient vampire and Buffy burned down the gym, which at the time was full of vampires. She was expelled from school and her parents divorced. At the beginning of the series, she has just moved to Sunnydale with her mother and is new to Sunnydale High School.
On her first day of school, she already has to deal with vampires and their new guardian, Rupert Giles, the school's librarian. Buffy, who was hoping for a fresh start and a normal life in Sunnydale, initially does not want to return to her calling. But eventually she takes up the fight against evil. She is soon known as a "freak" by her classmates and thus becomes an outsider at the school. In Xander and Willow, however, Buffy finds loyal friends who also support her in the fight against evil.
At the beginning, Buffy also meets the mysterious Angel, who often helps her. They fall in love with each other. When she learns that Angel is a vampire, it leads to conflict. It gets worse when Angel loses his soul and wants to destroy the world. At the end of the third season, the two split up for good.
Buffy has a very close bond with her mother and her sister Dawn, who only appears in the fifth season. When her mother dies, Buffy takes over the legal guardianship. To save her sister, Buffy sacrifices herself at the end of the fifth season, but is resuscitated by her friends in the sixth season. After she was in paradise, everyday life with demons, money and education worries is hell for her. In addition to all of the problems, she is still drawn to her archenemy Spike. At the end of the series, she is released from her calling, since then all the girls who are intended as hunters will be given their powers at the same time. The last shot in the series is a rare and honest smile from Buffy.
Joss Whedon's “childhood sweetheart” Kitty Pryde from the X-Men served as a model for the character Buffy . There are several flashbacks to Buffy's childhood in the series. Buffy is portrayed by a different actress each time. The best known are the two adult Buffys Kristy Swanson (movie) and Sarah Michelle Gellar (series). Interestingly, Kitty Pryde's full name is Katherine Anne Pryde and thus has the same intermediate name as Buffy. The last name Summers also occurs in the X-Men: Scott Summers . The gym didn't burn down in the film. The differences between the film and Buffy's prehistory in the series can be explained by the fact that Whedon used his original script for the series, which underwent relatively radical changes. For this, the film was also reissued as a comic. Buffy's date of birth changes as the series progresses. Whedon once stated that it should be January 19, 1981.
Rupert Giles
Rupert Giles is mostly just called Giles in the series. He is English and Buffy's second guardian. His father was also a guard and was supposed to prepare him for his future role. As a teenager, Rupert (then called "Ripper") resisted his appointment and joined a circle of magicians that was wiped out within the series by a demon summoned at the time. Only the now and then appearing Ethan Rayne and Giles escape the demon's revenge.
After being called to active duty as a guard, the Englishman accepts a job as a librarian at Buffy's school. At first he is very overzealous and strict with Buffy. In the course of the series, however, he developed a fatherly relationship with her. Giles has only had brief relationships at times. The one with Jenny Calendar, a teacher at Sunnydale High, is particularly tragic. Jenny was a "techno shaman" and a member of the gypsy tribe, which Angel put the curse of the soul at that time. After being murdered by Angelus (Angel's soulless alter ego ), Willow first takes Jenny's PC class and then comes to magic. Giles is fired from office by the Council of Guardians in Season 3 after breaking his rules and helping Buffy with a secret examination of the council. As a replacement, Buffy gets a new guardian, Wesley Wyndam-Pryce, which she does not accept. As a result, Buffy breaks away from the Guardian Council and Wesley leaves Sunnydale at the end of the third season. He later joins Angel's team in the spin-off series Angel . During the course of the fifth season, at Buffy's urging, Giles is reinstated as her guardian. During season six, Giles decides she needs to become self-employed and moves back to England. However, whenever she needs his help, he returns to Sunnydale regularly.
Joss Whedon and Tony, as Anthony Stewart Head is known, discovered their love for music while filming. This resulted in the album Music for Elevators , the musical episode Once More, with Feeling and several appearances by Giles as a singer in the series. In interviews, the two and other actors report from regular music evenings at Joss Whedon's home.
Willow
Willow Danielle Rosenberg is Xander's best friend and the otherwise geek, outsider, and geek at Sunnydale High. She comes from a Jewish family. Willow and Xander befriend Buffy in the first episode and learn their secret. For a long time, Willow is with the musician and werewolf Oz ("Daniel Osbourne"), who breaks up with her during the fourth season. Little by little she discovered magic for herself and gained increasing power as a witch. In a pseudo-witch circle, she meets Tara and falls in love with her. Willow gets more and more intoxicated while witchcraft and becomes addicted to magic. In the sixth season this leads to relationship problems with Tara, but also with her clique around Buffy and Xander, who all want to dissuade them from magic. Tara is killed in an attack on Buffy, whereupon Willow runs amok and tries to destroy the world in the finale of the sixth season. Ultimately, only Xander can convince her to give up. In England she is then treated by Giles. After that, she avoids anything that has to do with magic. In Kennedy, a young hunter, she finds comfort, trust and a new love. At the series finale, she casts a powerful spell that allows all girls who feel called to become hunters.
Willow and Tara's relationship was one of the first lesbian relationships on American television and sparked much discussion. The story of Willow's rampage in season six pays homage to the Dark Phoenix saga in the X-Men comics. Fans call the Phoenix alter ego "Dark Willow". In the episodes "What if" and "Doppelgangerland" there is also a vampire version of Willow. Willow has three appearances in the spin-off Angel .
Xander
Xander, actually Alexander LaVelle Harris, was born in Sunnydale in 1981. He grew up as an only child in a problematic family. His parents often quarrel; his father is temporarily unemployed and likes alcohol. This goes so far that Xander regularly spends Christmas in the garden with a sleeping bag. When he calls home, he first has to explain to his mother who he is.
Xander is a teenager who always has a cool line on the tongue. He's a very big fan of comics and science fiction. When he meets Buffy, he immediately falls in love with her. Therefore, he is rather bad at speaking to Angel. Xander supports Buffy in her fight against evil, where he often gets into trouble and needs to be rescued. But Xander is also the member of the "Scooby gang" (as Buffy's clique is called), which holds everything together and often defuses tense situations with its jokes. He often shows courage, as seen in the second episode of the first season, when it comes to freeing his friend Jesse from the clutches of the vampires.
After high school, unlike Buffy and Willow, he doesn't go to university, a fact that at times creates a certain alienation between Xander on the one hand and Buffy and Willow on the other. Initially, he found himself unsuccessfully doing various temporary jobs (bartender, ice cream seller, salesman for chocolate bars, etc.) until he started construction. Thanks to his craftsmanship, which is also a great help with the various devastations during fights in Buffy's house, he quickly works his way up and finally becomes a building supervisor. He falls in love with the ex-vengeance demon Anya and proposes to her. On the wedding day, however, he leaves her standing in front of the altar.
Towards the end of the series, it is often difficult for Xander to deal with his "normal" life in contrast to the superpowers of his friends. However, he realizes that the role he plays within the Scooby gang does not disqualify him, but that he is the haven for everyone. After the loss of an eye (injury in the fight with the insane priest Caleb in season 7) he takes care of the "normal" aspects of the Summer household and enables his friends to fight unrestrictedly against primal evil.
Joyce Summers
Joyce Summers is the loving and caring mother of Buffy and Dawn. Initially unaware of her daughter's nighttime activities, she thinks Buffy leads a normal life like any teenager. But in the last episode of the second season, she learns about her daughter's calling. Since then, Joyce's worries about Buffy have been greater than ever. In the fourth season, Joyce is seen relatively rarely because Buffy goes to college and is not often at home. In the fifth season, Joyce falls ill with a brain tumor . Apparently cured, she suddenly dies of a cerebral haemorrhage after an operation .
Cordelia
Cordelia Chase is the most popular cheerleader and student at Sunnydale High School. When she meets Buffy for the first time, she is only too happy to befriend her and take her into her clique. But after Buffy gets to know Willow and Xander, Cordelia gives her a tough choice: to become a friend of the two and thus irrevocably an outsider or her friend. Buffy decides to be friends with Willow and Xander.
Cordelia's character seems to be undisputed from the first episode: unscrupulous, rich, spoiled, superficial, beautiful and ready to take advantage of this at any time. The way she behaves instinctively denies her any kind of greater intelligence. In the course of the first two seasons, however, it often happens that she helps Buffy, Willow and Xander, or vice versa, gets help from them. Since she fears for her reputation, she makes sure that no one associates her with Buffy's clique at first, even though she has something for the three of them. In the second season, she and Xander kisses in a dicey situation and, after some back and forth, a relationship between the two of them. Cordelia becomes part of the Scooby gang for good.
Over the course of the first three seasons, the viewer repeatedly gets surprising insights into the character's soul. She experiences lovesickness when Xander, the "freak", betrays her out of a wild kiss with the gray mouse and nerd Willow and she catches them both. She is treated like dirt by her former friends when she breaks up with Buffy's clique over the kiss and needs her old circle of friends so badly. She passed the college exams with such extremely good scores that she was accepted into a bunch of elite schools, although she was unable to attend any of them because her father committed tax evasion.
At the end of the third season, Cordelia leaves Sunnydale and goes to Los Angeles to become an actress. The character becomes part of the spin-off series Angel .
Her part of the selfish, brutally honest and often hurtful snob is largely replenished by the ex-demon Anya. The fundamental difference between the two characters is that too often Anya is not even aware of how hurtful she can be and that she is not warped, but just too strange with current human customs. Cordelia, on the other hand, is all too aware of what she is doing.
Oz
Daniel Osbourne, known as Oz, joins the Scooby gang in season two when he meets Willow. He has a very dry sense of humor and rarely shows his emotions. He becomes a werewolf for three nights each month during the full moon period . Since he is flinging with a werewolf in this state, his relationship with Willow, which had been exemplary until then, falls apart. Oz leaves Sunnydale to learn how to deal with his curse and to do no harm in his werewolf stages. When he returns later, he is upset when he realizes that Willow and Tara are a couple. He attacks Tara and is captured by the "Initiative", a secret government organization. Buffy frees him and he leaves Sunnydale for good.
The character of Oz came to the cast in the second season and was written out of the series during the fourth season, as actor Seth Green wanted to devote himself more to his cinema career. He then made guest appearances on Buffy and Angel .
Kendra
Kendra Young was born in Jamaica in 1982. She is called the Slayer when Buffy is dead for a few minutes in the first season. In contrast to Buffy, Kendra subordinates her entire life to her calling. She comes to Sunnydale to warn Buffy of great danger and to help her fight Spike and Drusilla. The two Slayers together manage to stop them, and Kendra leaves Sunnydale again. But when Angel gets angry and wants to destroy the world with the help of the demon Acathla, Kendra comes back. When Buffy meets Angelus, Willow tries to use a spell to restore his soul. They are disturbed by Drusilla and her vampires and a fight ensues. Drusilla hypnotizes Kendra and cuts her throat, causing her to die.
Faith
Faith Lehane is introduced to the series at the beginning of season three to reveal Buffy's dark side. Since Faith fights for both good and bad throughout the series, the character harmonizes very well with Angel.
Faith was probably born in Boston in 1983. Her father is George Patrick Lehane, who was sentenced to life imprisonment for manslaughter when Faith was a young child. Her mother was addicted to alcohol and drugs and had a friend from a drug dealer who first sent her to the streets and then killed her. Faith didn't have the social support that Buffy does. After Kendra's death, Faith is called to be a slayer. In 1998, her guardian is killed by the cruel vampire Kakistos. Faith escapes to Sunnydale, where she meets Buffy and her friends. Faith likes violence and fights. She loves to brutally beat up vampires before staking them. Besides, she doesn't believe in rules and men are nothing more than toys to her. Faith pretends to despise Buffy's moral behavior and responsible handling of fate as a Slayer. Secretly, however, she envies Buffy her friends and her mother. So the two hunters are living apart more and more. Faith accidentally kills someone while on patrol with Buffy. This changes them permanently. Instead of facing the police, she joins the demonic mayor of Sunnydale and fights Buffy. After trying to kill Angel, she is caught by Buffy, seriously injured, and falls into a coma. After an eight-month stay in hospital, she wakes up and flees to LA. Angel persuades her to face herself and to atone for her deeds. After a long prison sentence, she is persuaded by Wesley to flee, first to stop Angelus and later to help Buffy in the fight against primordial evil.
In the last few episodes of the series, she is a trained hunter with Buffy and the others. She is a great help as another hunter and makes you forget her bad deeds. Between her and director Robin Wood, who as the son of a slayer killed by Spike in 1977 fights side by side with Buffy and the Scooby gang, a love affair develops in which for the first time Faith shows her former attitude towards men has changed.
The character Faith was originally supposed to get her own spin-off, in which she would ride a motorcycle through the USA and fight evil. Eliza Dushku canceled to shoot Tru Calling , after which the spin-off idea was dropped. Tru Calling was discontinued after two seasons with a total of 26 episodes.
fishing rod
Angel is a vampire who's on the side of good. Born in Ireland in 1727, he comes from a well-to-do family, but as a good-for-nothing he was a thorn in his father's side. In 1753 he met the vampire Darla, who made him a vampire. His original first name was Liam, but when his little sister saw him shortly after his funeral, she thought he was an angel, hence the name Angel. He killed his entire family and, together with Darla, left a bloody trail in world history under the name Angelus . Since he liked to inflict unimaginable torment on his victims before killing them, he was considered one of the cruelest vampires ever.
In 1860 he met the pious girl Drusilla, who was seen by those around her as a child of the devil because of her clairvoyant gifts. He drove Drusilla insane by killing her family. She then fled to a monastery because she saw her clairvoyant skills as a punishment from God. The night before her ordination, Angelus finally turned her into a vampire.
Around 1900 he received a special gift from Darla: a gypsy girl. Angelus killed the girl, but her clan took revenge on him by placing a curse on Angelus that gave him his soul back. From then on he felt remorse for his actions. Eventually, he decided to repent by helping people in need.
When Buffy was still living in LA, Angel first saw her shortly before she moved to Sunnydale and followed her there as he decided to help her fight evil. In Sunnydale, the two meet for the first time and fall in love. When they sleep together on Buffy's 17th birthday, Angel loses his soul as the gypsy curse is broken as soon as he experiences a moment of total happiness. The evil Angelus is back with it and kills Giles' lover, Jenny Calendar, because she is one of the last of the Gypsy clan and could give him his soul back again. In the finale of the second season, he tries to destroy the world. There is a final fight between Buffy and Angelus. Meanwhile, Willow tries to restore Angelus' soul, which she ultimately succeeds. But it is too late. Buffy banishes Angel into a hell dimension through the portal opened by Angelus himself. He later returns with the help of a higher evil force who speculates that he will once again be unable to resist his great love Buffy, lose his soul and do something to her. Since he, according to his statements, cannot offer Buffy everything she wants later in life, he separates from her despite his feelings and founds the detective agency Angel Investigations in LA .
Spike
Spike is a platinum blonde vampire who mostly wears black leather clothes. He was born William Pratt in London around 1850 and tried his hand at being a poet unsuccessfully. In 1880 Drusilla made him a vampire. Together with her, Angelus and Darla, he went murdering through the world as William the Bloody and is considered one of the most dangerous vampires. Spike killed two Slayers over the years: the first in 1900 during the Boxer Rising in China , the second in 1977 in New York City . The latter was the mother of the new director of Sunnydale High, which creates tension between him and Spike. He and Drusilla will be introduced to the series at the beginning of the second season. The two come to Sunnydale after Drusilla is nearly killed in Prague. Her goal is to kill Buffy and to heal Drusilla, who is very weak after her experiences in Prague. But Spike's attempts fail several times. Eventually, he is able to restore Drusilla's health through a ritual that nearly kills Angel. At the end of the second season, he teams up with Buffy to get rid of Angelus who wants to destroy the world. After that he leaves Sunnydale for some time.
He reappears in an episode of the third season because his lover Drusilla has left him. He kidnaps Willow so that she can help him with a love spell for Drusilla. In the end, however, he realizes that a love spell is of no use, but that he has to become the man Drusilla loved again and lets Willow go. When he returns to Sunnydale in season four, after Drusilla is over for good, he is captured by the Demon Hunt and Investigation Initiative. He gets a chip implanted in his head that makes it impossible for him to harm a person by causing excruciating pain when trying. This mainly served to motivate the character to remain in the series as a member of the gang: When he realizes that he can no longer harm people, but can harm demons, he helps Buffy fight them. Spike slowly falls in love with Buffy, but Buffy is just disgusted by his feelings. When Buffy dies fighting Glory at the end of season five, he promises her that he will take care of her sister Dawn.
After Buffy is raised from the dead by Willow, she has a violent affair with Spike. Eventually she breaks away from him because she only “needed” him to feel alive. After trying to rape Buffy, Spike eventually leaves Sunnydale to seek out an ancient demon in Africa. He passes various tests to get his soul back. Spike finally makes an almost insane return to Sunnydale in season seven. Finally he regains his sanity and now helps Buffy in the fight against primeval evil. At the end of the last season, Spike sacrifices himself to prevent the impending apocalypse. But that wasn't the end of Spike, as you learn from Angel last season .
Riley Finn
Buffy meets Riley in college. Like Buffy, he lives a double life: on the one hand as a normal college student and tutor, on the other hand as a member of the "Initiative". So Buffy and Riley hide their secret until they fight the gentlemen, mysterious fairy tale monsters, independently of each other and ultimately come face to face in battle. At first the trust between the two is shaken. The two quickly begin to see the advantages of the situation and support each other. Buffy gradually uncovered the machinations (for example Adam) of the "Initiative" until Riley deserted voluntarily from the organization. In the fight against Adam, the "Initiative" is destroyed and Riley removed from his military rank. Without real work, his dissatisfaction grows, he becomes carefree. This behavior, as well as the realization that Buffy would never love him dearly enough, ultimately lead to the separation of the two. Riley then leaves Sunnydale to hunt demons again as a member of the military. About a year later he shows up with his wife Sam - also a member of the military - in Sunnydale because a demon they are looking for is up there and he could use their help. When the mission is complete, Riley and his wife leave Sunnydale again.
Dawn
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Dawn Summers is introduced to the series in the fifth season as Buffy's younger sister, namely as a mystical key that can open portals to dimensions of Hell, and which was given carnal form by monks. They made her the sister of the huntress so that she might protect her. Because the hell goddess Glory wants to get her hands on the key so that she can return to her hell dimension. In the finale, Glory is defeated and Buffy sacrifices herself for Dawn to close the portal of Hell.
Dawn is a bright teenager. However, after the death of her mother, she becomes a kleptomaniac and suffers from the fact that no one spends much time with her. Buffy takes on the task of training Dawn in the fight against the evil creatures, but neglects this task (and Dawn in general) in the seventh season, especially after the appearance of the contenders.
Tare
Tara Maclay was born in 1980. The character is introduced to the series in season four. Supposedly she is a demon, but this turns out to be a family legend through which the Maclay men tried to keep their wives under control. Shy Tara is a capable witch, but also an outsider. She befriends Willow, and that friendship quickly turns into love. In the fifth season, Tara is put into a quasi-autistic state by a spell by the hell goddess Glory. After Willow surrenders more and more to magic, Tara leaves her. Just as the two make up again, Tara is killed by Warren with a bullet that was actually intended for Buffy. Willow cannot get over this pain and is completely consumed by the black magic.
Anya
Anya Jenkins was born as Aud in Scandinavia in 860 . After being betrayed by her lover Olaf, she turned him into a troll . Then D'Hoffryn, chief of the vengeance demons, appeared to her and offered to make her one of his. Anya accepted and punished men from then on as Anyanka, especially if they had cheated on their wives. Her spell is broken when Giles destroys Anya's amulet in Sunnydale in 1998. This makes Anya a normal person. She falls in love with Xander and helps in the fight against evil. When Xander leaves her in front of the altar, she decides to become a vengeance demon again. However, she quickly realizes that the business of revenge is no longer up to her. After she has committed a massacre, she breaks down mentally and asks D'Hoffryn to undo her actions. As a result, she becomes human again. She rejoins Buffy and the others. In the last episode, she dies fighting.
Anya's charm lies in the fact that she does not adhere to the unwritten laws of human coexistence. Polite lies, shy silence, etc. are alien to her, she blurts out - often to the chagrin of Xander - with her opinion and also intimate details (“we both liked spanking ”).
In the episode "Death of a Mother", an outburst of emotions makes it very clear how lost and isolated Anya often feels due to her lack of understanding of interpersonal rules.
Seasons
The first season consists of 12, the next six of 22 episodes each. The episodes are arranged chronologically across the series, with a season reflecting the time from October to May in the characters' lives. The end of the seasons in May coincided with the start of Buffy and the audience's school holidays. The end of a season is also the climax to which the plot comes to a head over time. This is always the final battle against an apparently overpowering opponent who is ultimately defeated by Buffy and her friends together. The price of defeat is often nothing less than the apocalypse.
Season 1: The Master
In the first season - in contrast to the later ones - the main plot is driven forward only in about every second episode. This consists in the fight against the master, an ancient and very powerful vampire who appears exclusively in demonic vampire form. The Master came to Sunnydale in 1937 to open the Hellmouth. During an earthquake, however, it was spilled in the sewer and remains trapped there due to the power of the Hellmouth. 60 years later, he tries to escape. Despite his age and strength, he ultimately falls in the fight against the Slayer. At first, however, Buffy succumbs and is clinically dead for a few minutes, which has far-reaching consequences for the entire later series.
Season 2: Angelus
The second season deals with the relationship between Buffy and the cursed vampire Angel, as well as its dangerous consequences: When Buffy and Angel sleep together, he loses his soul established by the curse. This separated - raised - him from his actual vampire personality, the evil Angelus. Angelus soon occupies a high place in the hierarchy of the dark forces. At the end of the season he wants to awaken the demon Acathla, who has the power to suck the whole world into a hell dimension. Buffy prevents this by piercing Angelus with a sword, whereupon Angel (whose soul is restored by Willow at the same time) is torn into Acathla's hell dimension.
Season 3: Richard Wilkins III, the Mayor
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Richard Wilkins III is the Mayor and Founder of Sunnydale. Wilkins had long ago sold his soul to the devil with the aim of becoming a pure demon. So it became immortal over time and finally invulnerable in the episode "Die Box von Gavrock" ("Choices"). In the unstable Faith, an untrained hunter, he senses his chance as a fatherly friend and sponsor to seduce a hunter to the dark side - which he quickly succeeds in. On the day of Buffy's high school graduation, Wilkins trades his immortal and invulnerable human form for existence as a pure demon Olvikon (a giant snake that fed on humans until a volcanic eruption killed it). Buffy kills him by luring him to Sunnydale High School and then with Giles' help blows up the school.
Season 4: Adam, The Initiative
In season 4 Buffy learns of the "Initiative", a secret unit of the US military that has set up a base in Sunnydale, which is operated for research purposes on demons and vampires. Members of the initiative lead double lives, mostly as students and faculty at the college that Buffy and Willow attend. The head of the unit, Professor Maggie Walsh, creates Adam, a hybrid of parts of demons, humans and robots, who was thought to be the perfect soldier. When he wakes up, however, he kills his creator and escapes from the secret rooms of the initiative. Adam is driven by an irrepressible curiosity and makes his own investigations on other beings in order to study them. Even the Slayer is no match for him in strength. Only a magical ritual, which Xander, Willow and Giles perform and thus gives Buffy not only the powers of the entire group, but also those of the deceased hunters, enables the victory over Adam.
The initiative is also used to motivate the whereabouts of Spike, who was dear to the fans: After he is captured by soldiers of the initiative, Spike has a chip implanted in his head that makes it impossible for him to do so with excruciating pain To cause suffering to people. Thereupon he is no longer a danger for the Scooby gang and joins them in order to be able to live out his aggressions in the fight against demons and vampires.
Season 5: Glory
In season 5 Buffy has an unexpectedly strong opponent with Glory: She was once the goddess of a hell dimension, from which she was banished to the human world, where she has to share her body with the human Ben. A spell prevents people who witness the occasional metamorphosis between these two states from being able to remember it. In the first few years of Ben's life, Glory never showed up because she didn't have the strength to do so. In the end, the body and soul of Ben and her merge, which leads to the fact that she develops more and more human feelings, which sucks on her nerves. In order to stay with strength, it has to suck people's minds.
Glory comes to Sunnydale to find the mystical key that is supposed to open the gates to all dimensions of Hell and thus also to her home dimension. The fact that the human world would be destroyed is at most a pleasant side effect for them. She meets Buffy, whose sister Dawn is the mystical key. Initially, Buffy has no chance in the fight against Glory. In the final fight, she can then fight Glory with the help of her friends, the magic ball " Dagon's Fear " (wrong synchronization of Dagon Sphere ("Dagon Sphere" or "Dagon Ball"), which was understood as Dagon's Fear ) and the magic hammer of the troll Defeat Olaf. But it's Giles who kills Glory by suffocating her in her Ben form. Since the gate to the dimensions of Hell is already open, Buffy sacrifices herself to close it with her body. The last shot of the fifth season shows Buffy's grave.
Season 6: Life
The sixth season has no bosses like the other seasons. The real challenge here is life itself, which presents the characters with great trials. At the beginning of the season, Buffy is brought back to life by her friends. Xander and Anya want to get married, but he leaves them at the altar. Willow, now a very powerful witch, becomes addicted to magic, which is why Tara breaks up with her. Spike and Buffy have a secret affair. The musical episode once again with emotion plays a central role in the season . There the characters share their secrets under the influence of a demon.
The trio of Warren, Jonathan and Andrew plan to "rule" Sunnydale just for fun. However, the plan is falling apart. After Warren accidentally murders Tara, Willow lets himself be filled with powerful black magic and embarks on a gruesome campaign of revenge. She puts Warren in the woods, tortures him and then skins him alive. When she wants to kill Andrew and Jonathan afterwards, Buffy and Anya stand in her way. Eventually Giles steps in and has a magic duel with Willow. Ultimately, he succumbs to Willow, who sucks the magical power out of him. Since Giles' powers, borrowed from other witches, come from white magic, the power of life, Willow suddenly feels all the emotions of the entire world. She cannot stand this and she tries to erase all pain and suffering by destroying the world. In the end, her childhood friend Xander manages to penetrate her humanity and dissuade her from her plan.
Season 7: The Ur-Evil
The Urböse is the "First Evil" (First Evil) . Older than the world, it is more powerful than anything the Slayer has ever dealt with. It can take on the appearance of any deceased person, but it does not have a body of its own. With its assistants - the superhumanly strong priest Caleb, the "messengers of death" and the powerful "Turok-Han", who are the ancient stone age form of vampires that are difficult to defeat - it wants to wipe out the line of the hunters take back the human world. Buffy sees her only chance to save the world in transferring her Slayer powers to all potential Slayers in the world with Willow's help. This is put into effect and the Slayers go to the Hellmouth where the ensuing fight takes place. Also there is Spike, who is meanwhile also animated and wears an amulet that Buffy received from Angel shortly before. With the power of the amulet and the power of his soul, Spike manages to destroy the entire Turok-Han army of the primordial evil, but he also has to lose his life. Except for him and Anya, who was killed in the fight, Buffy and her friends can save themselves from the completely collapsed Sunnydale just in time.
Now Buffy could start a new life, because besides Faith she is no longer the only slayer in the world.
Comic continuation
In 2007, the producers of the television series began to canonically continue this in comic form . After the eighth season comprising 40 issues, a 9th season (25 issues) appeared in mid-2012. A 10th season has been released since March 2014.
Season 8
A year after the destruction of Sunnydale, 1,800 women and girls around the world are endowed with the powers of a hunter. Buffy and her allies, along with about 500 hunters, witches, and other supernatural beings, have built a global network of hunter cadres (called "squads") who work together under Buffy and Xander's direction. Humanity is now aware of the existence of the demonic world. Buffy and her Slayers have now also achieved worldwide fame; Among other things through various bank robberies, through which the organization secures the luxury of ultra-modern information technology and weapons equipment. As a consequence, Buffy's organization is viewed as an international terrorist organization and hunted down by the US government, fearing for its world power position. There are also problems within our own ranks with apostate hunters who pose a threat to the organization as well as to uninvolved civilians. In addition, an ominous figure named Twilight seems to be waging a personal campaign against Buffy and allies with the US military against her.
Season 9
After the destruction of the seed (Engl. Seed ) Buffy has cut the human world from everything supernatural influence at the end of Season 8. With that she banished all magic from the world and left her friend Willow as a witch powerless. Buffy also ended the long line of vampire slayers, which is why most of the other slayers hate her now. Buffy tries to start over in San Francisco by entering college and working as a waitress in a coffee shop. Buffy cannot break away from the world of demons and soon faces new challenges: A man named Severin has the ability to rob magical beings like the hunters of their powers and allies with the renegade huntress Simone Doffler to kill Buffy . Buffy also has to fight for her ailing friendships with Xander and Willow, who cannot forgive her complicity in Giles' death at the end of season 8 and the loss of magic in the world. Willow embarks on a month-long odyssey through different demon worlds in order to regain her powers. In London, Angel and Faith work on the events of the eighth Buffy season again and together prevent another apocalypse.
Cast and dubbing
The series was set to music at the Cinephon in Berlin . Werner Böhnke wrote the dialogue books for the first season, and Martina Marx wrote the dubbing books for the remaining seasons. Thomas Wolff directed the dialogue .
main actor
| role | actor | Main role (seasons) |
Supporting role (seasons) |
Guest role (seasons) |
Voice actor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buffy Anne Summers | Sarah Michelle Gellar | 1.01-7.22 | Nana Spier | ||
| Willow Danielle Rosenberg | Alyson Hannigan | 1.01-7.22 | Marie Bierstedt | ||
| Alexander "Xander" LaVelle Harris | Nicholas Brendon | 1.01-7.22 | Gerrit Schmidt-Foss | ||
| Rupert "Ripper" Giles | Anthony Stewart Head | 1.01-5.22 | 6.01-7.22 | Thomas Nero Wolff | |
| Cordelia Chase | Charisma Carpenter | 1.01-3.22 | Schaukje Könning | ||
| Angel (Angelus / Liam) | David Boreanaz | 2.01-3.22 | 1.01–1.12 | 4.08-7.22 | Boris Tessmann |
| Daniel "Oz" Osborne | Seth Green | 3.01-4.06 | 2.04-2.22 | 4.19, 4.22 | Santiago Ziesmer |
| Spike (William the Bloody; William Pratt) | James Marsters | 4.07-7.22 | 2.03-2.22, 4.03-4.06 | 3.08 | David Nathan |
| Riley Finn | Marc Blucas | 4.11-5.10 | 4.01-4.10 | 6.15 | Peter Flechtner |
| Anya Christina Emmanuella Jenkins (Anyanka / Aud) |
Emma Caulfield | 5.01-7.22 | 3.09-4.20 | Dascha Lehmann | |
| Dawn Summers | Michelle Trachtenberg | 5.02-7.22 | 5.01 | Ilona Brokowski | |
| Tara Maclay | Amber Benson | 6.19 | 4.10-6.18 | Ranja Bonalana |
supporting cast
- Remarks
- ↑ 6 guest appearances
Episode list
comics
Since Buffy quickly became a successful series, Dark Horse came up with the idea of publishing comics for the series. In the beginning these were very simple additional stories that ran parallel to the series. The comics were well received by fans, which led Dark Horse to bring the TV episodes screenwriters on board. Doug Petrie, Jane Espenson and Joss Whedon published comic mini-series, among other things. With the change of the author of the regular monthly series to Tom Fassbender, the stories got deeper and deeper into the plot of the series. The comics became a complement to the series and told the viewer what happened between each episode. After the anniversary with issue 50, Fabian Nicieza ( Fantastic Four ) and Scott Lobdell ( X-Men ), who took over the series from issue 48, began to combine the film with the series. Comics 51 through 64 tell how Angel fell in love with Buffy and why Buffy broke up with her movie friend Pike. Buffy's parents found out that Buffy was hunting vampires and locked them in a mental hospital . The edition in which Buffy's parents divorced and moved to Sunnydale is also the last in the series. Appropriately, this story was called "A Stake to the Heart".
Not only Buffy stories were retold in the comics. Supporting characters like Oz, Willow and Tara, Jonathan and Angel also appeared as special editions. In the series "Tales of the Slayer" and "Tales of the Vampire", the backgrounds of other hunters and vampires from the past and the future are told. Joss Whedon wrote an eight-part mini-series about the huntress of the future, Fray. Around the first 25 issues of the main series and a miniseries were published in Germany by Carlsen Verlag . However, this stopped the series after 30 issues. An attempt by Cross Cult to revive the series failed due to a lack of reader interest.
Since March 2007, the television series continued with the 8th season in comic form. The comic picks up where the series left off and appears in several languages. The German translation will be published by Panini Verlag. Some of the episodes were written by earlier authors of the series, including Joss Whedon himself. Panini Verlag also publishes older stories, some of which have already been published by Carlsen, in anthologies.
Novels and Academia
In addition to the comics, a number of novels related to the series were published. Some of these were also published in Germany by VGS Verlag . In the US, there was also a monthly Buffy magazine with background information about the series and the actors. Background information and interpretations also appeared in various non-fiction books.
The series has also influenced some German humanities monographs and essays . Academic courses such as "Buffy Studies" are also offered at some universities. There is also the magazine Slayage around which the "Slayage Conference" of the same name takes place every two years and the journal with the name Watcherjunior in which a whole series of cultural studies articles on the Buffy and Whedon verses can be found. Alysa Hornick and Don Macnaughtan offer the most up-to-date overview of the texts in “Buffy Studies”.
Works inspired by Buffy
Angel's soul was restored by a gypsy curse; since then he has been plagued with guilt for killing him for 150 years. The character of Angel was so popular that he got his own series, Angel - Hunters of Darkness .
There are also two planned TV series (an animated series and a BBC series) and fan fiction .
Due to the success of Buffy, other "mystical" series were launched, the best example being Charmed . Also Smallville , tells the story of the young Superman tells is strongly influenced by Buffy. Smallville began broadcasting on The WB Television Network to replace Buffy. The first episodes and the roles of the characters show parallels in content. In seasons 5 and 7, James Marsters (who played Buffy Spike ) plays one of the mysterious main characters, Professor Milton Fine / Brainiac. In the episode Black Sisters (original title Thirst ) a vampire with the name (already referred to as "fictional" in the series) was named "Buffy Sanders". Ironically, the vampires are ultimately hunted down by a tip from Fine. Some authors like Drew Goddart or Steve DeKnight also switched to Smallville.
According to Zeenat Burns (for Metacritic ), the Israeli teenage vampire drama series Hatsuya (English: Split) was also influenced by Buffy. As with Buffy, a "bad boy" vampire wearing a trench coat is among the main characters. The main character's best friend was also inspired by the Buffy character Xander. He also fell in love with the main character. Other similarities are the high school background of the series and the headmaster, who makes life difficult for the main characters. In addition, the main character Ella Rozen, like Buffy, is confronted with a completely new supernatural world. She should take responsibility, mediate between vampires and humans. She's the only one who can do this job. Just like Buffy, she prefers to lead a completely normal high school life. In addition, vampires and demons also appear in Hatsuya, although the vampires in Hatsuya are not soulless.
Former Buffy writers write scripts for popular series. For example, Jane Espenson write and wrote for Gilmore Girls and OC, California , David Fury for Lost and 24 .
Another indirect follow-up series is Veronica Mars , even if there are no mystery elements there. Veronica often investigates her high school, much like the Scoobies in the first three seasons. Joss Whedon also praises Veronica Mars as "the best series of all time" and even has a guest appearance, as do Alyson Hannigan and Charisma Carpenter.
The German radio play series "Faith - the Van Helsing Chronicles" by the R&B company has nothing to do with Buffy in terms of content, but is inspired by Buffy. The speakers are often also the voice actors for Buffy characters.
The new series by Doctor Who (from 2005) and its offshoots Torchwood and Class were also heavily inspired by Buffy. Some of the creators, including Russell T Davies , were fans of the series. Russell T Davies was looking for a Buffy-style companion for the Ninth Doctor . Some of the Doctor Who characters and backstories are very similar to Buffy's. Buffy comic book artist Georges Jeanty believes that the Doctor Who character Jenny was a tribute to Buffy by Russell T Davies . So he drew in Buffy, comic book number 32 of the eighth season, in the same clothes as Jenny. Some of the aliens also strongly remind critics of the demons in Buffy. British magazine Radio Times published a list of events in March 2017 that could lead readers to believe that Doctor Who is set in the same series as Buffy. In the list, incidents, aliens, demons and other opponents were compared. Russell T Davies also stated that he wanted to start a Doctor Who spin-off with Torchwood in the style of Angel - Hunters of Darkness . The Doctor Who Spin off Class has been referred to as the British Buffy by the creators.
Remake
Fran Rubel Kuzui and Kaz Kuzui were working on a remake of the film, which should have resulted in a series if successful. The new film should be darker and more serious and have a significantly larger budget than the approximately seven million dollars of the original. An involvement of Joss Whedon was not initially ruled out.
On November 22, 2010, Warner Bros. officially announced that they had acquired the rights to the film version from the Kuzuis and had commissioned a remake. Charles Roven and Steve Alexander ( Atlas Entertainment ) were to produce the film with Doug Davison and Roy Lee ( Vertigo Entertainment ).
Joss Whedon, the screenwriter of the first film adaptation and inventor of the television series, is not involved. He was critical of the project. The script should have been written by actress Whit Anderson. At the end of 2011, however, it became known that their draft from the summer of the same year had first been massively criticized and later rejected. In July 2018 it was announced that it would produce a series that takes place in the same universe as Buffy.
Video games
August 2002 the action adventure Buffy the Vampire Slayer was released for the Xbox . The player steers the character Buffy through dark scenarios and fights against different monsters. In the following year Vivendi released the sequel Buffy - Chaos Bleeds for the respective consoles (Xbox, PlayStation 2 , GameCube ).
There is also a platform game called Buffy The Vampire Slayer for the Game Boy Color and another platform game for the Game Boy Advance called Buffy the Vampire Slayer - King Darkhul's Wrath . A game called Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Sacrifice was also released for the Nintendo DS .
literature
- Michael Adams: Slayer Slang: A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Lexicon . Oxford University Press, 2003, ISBN 0-19-516033-9 .
- Sita Backhaus: "Buffy" and "Sabrina" - Mystery for Girls: Investigations into newer TV series and their accompanying books as well as their reception. Diploma thesis, 2001 ( download as PDF )
- Dietmar Dath : She is awake. About a girl who helps, protects and saves. Implex, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-937148-00-0 .
- Lorna Jowett: Sex and the Slayer. A Gender Studies Primer for the Buffy Fan . Welseyan University Press, Middletown 2005, ISBN 0-8195-6758-2 .
- Karin Lenzhofer: Chicks Rule! The beautiful new heroines in American television series. Transcript, Bielefeld 2006, ISBN 3-89942-433-6 .
- Christian Lukas , Sascha Westphal : Buffy - The Vampire Slayer. The unofficial fan book about the new cult series and its background. Knaur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-426-61354-9 .
- Christian Lukas, Sascha Westphal: Buffy - The new adventure. The unofficial fan book about the 3rd season of the cult series and its background. Knaur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-426-61706-4 .
- Christian Lukas, Sascha Westphal: Buffy - The hunt continues. The unofficial fan book about the 4th season of the cult series and its background. Knaur, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-426-61851-6 .
- Marcus right: the likeable vampire. Visualizations of masculinity in the TV series Buffy. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt / New York 2011, ISBN 3-593-39421-9 .
- Michael Reufsteck , Stefan Niggemeier : The television lexicon . Goldmann, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-442-30124-6 .
- James B. South (Ed.): Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy. Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale. Open Court, Chicago and La Salle 2003, ISBN 0-8126-9531-3 .
- Gregory Stevenson: Televised Morality. The Case of Buffy the Vampire Slayer . Hamilton Books, Dalls 2003, ISBN 0-7618-2833-8 .
- Rhonda Wilcox and David Lavery (Eds.): Fighting the Forces. What's at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Rowman and Littlefield Publ., Lanham 2002, ISBN 0-7425-1681-4 .
- Annika Beckmann, Ruth Hatlapa, Oliver Jelinski, Birgit Ziener (eds.): Horror as everyday life. Lyrics to Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-940426-52-9 .
- Lynne Y. Edwards, Elizabeth L. Rambo, James B. South (Eds.): Buffy Goes Dark: Essays on the Final Two Seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer on Television Mcfarland & Co Inc, 2009, ISBN 978-0-786436- 76-7 .
Web links
- Buffy - the Vampire Slayer in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Buffy Lexicon
- Buffy at German TV scripts
- List of episodes with German titles and dates of the first broadcast in the USA and Germany
Individual evidence
- Jump up ↑ Buffy the Vampire Slayer . Online at Schnittberichte.com, accessed September 7, 2013.
- ↑ Science Fiction Hall of Fame 2018 , entry in the Science Fiction Awards + Database .
- ↑ German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Series | Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Retrieved April 3, 2018 .
- ↑ Slayercomic.net, your first port of call for the comic book Buffyverse . Online at buffycomic.de.
- ↑ Marcus right: The sympathetic vampire. Visualizations of masculinity in the TV series Buffy. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt / New York 2011, ISBN 3-593-39421-9 .
- ↑ Christina Köver: On the representation / production of femininity in the television series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" ( Memento of the original from January 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF, 2.1 MB). Master's thesis 2005. Online at chriskoever.glizz.net.
- ↑ Alysa Hornick: Whedonology: An Academic Whedon Studies Bibliography ( Memento of the original of September 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . English. Online at alysa316.com September 2, 2013. Retrieved October 9, 2013.
- ↑ Don Macnaughtan: The Buffyverse Catalog: A Complete Guide to Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel in Print, Film, Television, Comics, Games and Other Media. Mcfarland & Co Inc 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-4603-2 .
- ^ Zeenat Burns: Ranked: Vampire TV Shows. Only some of these shows suck. . In: Metacritic .com . June 9, 2010. Retrieved March 27, 2014.
- ↑ Russell T. Davies
- ↑ The influence of Buffy and Joss on Nu Who ( Memento April 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Doctor Who Report: New Theme Music?
- ^ The Regeneration of Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor and the Influence of the Slayer
- ^ Piper in line for Doctor Who role
- ↑ The Roots of Doctor Who 8 / Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Angel
- ↑ * COMPLETE * Q&A with Georges Jeanty Session 10
- ↑ Monsters: Doctor Who's Silence and Buffy's Hush [spoilers]
- ↑ 7 pieces of evidence that suggest Doctor Who and Buffy The Vampire Slayer are set in the same universe
- ↑ Davies: 'Buffy', 'Angel' inspired 'Torchwood'
- ↑ 'Class' Star Sophie Hopkins Says She's Ready To Be 'The British Buffy' For Doctor Who Fans
- ↑ DOCTOR WHO Spinoff CLASS Will Be Like British BUFFY
- ^ Robert Lissack: "Buffy": New movie without Whedon? . Online at fictionBOX on May 26, 2009, accessed May 26, 2009.
- ↑ Joyce Eng: Warner Bros. Rebooting Buffy; Joss Whedon Has "Mixed Emotions" . English. Online at TVGuide.com November 22, 2010, accessed November 25, 2010.
- ↑ Geoff Boucher: 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' movie looking for new writer , herocomplex.latimes.com, December 22, 2011, accessed September 30, 2012
