Never Kill A Boy On The First Date S1 E5

This week on Buffy and the Art of Story: Never Kill A Boy On The First Date. (Season 1, Episode 6 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.)

The podcast episode covers interweaving plot lines, theme, and cliffhangers versus game changers.

As always, the discussion is spoiler-free, except at the end (with plenty of warning).

Story Elements in Never Kill A Boy On The First Date

In this podcast episode we’ll look at how Buffy handles:

All the major plot turns in this standalone episode
How the different story lines interconnect
Theme
The difference between a game changer and cliffhanger

Also discussed – Buffy Season 1 DVD interview with Joss Whedon. He says Never Kill A Boy On The First Date is important because it is all about Buffy maintaining a normal life, and it juxtaposes her vampire slaying directly with a date with a cute boy.

What’s Next

Next week Buffy and the Art of Story covers The Pack, S1 E6.

Plotting Your Story

If you’re working on your own novel, screenplay, or story, check out the Story Structure Template available free to patrons on my Patreon page.

Or you can check out Super Simple Story Structure: A Quick Guide To Plotting And Writing Your Novel (Book 1 in the Writing As A Second Career series).

As a patron, you’ll also get access to bonus episodes.

Those episodes will include Buffy-adjacent stories (such as key Angel episodes). Also films or TV episodes that are intriguing from a story, theme, or character perspective.

Episode Transcript

Coming Soon. (I promise, as Buffy might say.)

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