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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Watcher's Guide, Volume 1
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“My boyfriend had a bicentennial.”
― Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Watcher's Guide, Volume 1
― Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Watcher's Guide, Volume 1
“A lot of people want to know ‘How do I get my hair to look like so-and-so’s?’” Jeri observes. “They go to their hairdresser with a picture and say, ‘I want to look like that.’ Now, first of all, styling hair in the television industry does not necessarily have anything to do with a haircut. It’s styling, and the audience has to realize that this is a style that is maintained all day long. They don’t walk out of the trailer and never get touched again, like normal people in the regular world. They have somebody chasing behind them, making sure that every hair is in place. So to take a photograph of an actor and expect to look like that, they can cut your hair the same way, but if you don’t do the styling, all you’re stuck with is a haircut you don’t know what to do with.
“I think the most important thing is that everybody needs to seek their own look, what makes them beautiful. It has nothing to do with what the actress looks like and nothing to do with wanting to be like them. You have to be yourself. I’m hoping that’s what has evolved on Buffy. She kinda looks like herself. She doesn’t try to create a hairstyle that takes hours to do. Fifteen minutes. Sometimes you have to work with what hair that you have. She is sixteen years old. I don’t want her hair to look like she came out of a salon. I’m hoping that we’re creating things that people can do, they’re not difficult to do. It’s a matter of really liking your face and being able to stand in front of the mirror and move [your hair] around until you balance your face.”
Jeri Baker”
― Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Watcher's Guide, Volume 1
“I think the most important thing is that everybody needs to seek their own look, what makes them beautiful. It has nothing to do with what the actress looks like and nothing to do with wanting to be like them. You have to be yourself. I’m hoping that’s what has evolved on Buffy. She kinda looks like herself. She doesn’t try to create a hairstyle that takes hours to do. Fifteen minutes. Sometimes you have to work with what hair that you have. She is sixteen years old. I don’t want her hair to look like she came out of a salon. I’m hoping that we’re creating things that people can do, they’re not difficult to do. It’s a matter of really liking your face and being able to stand in front of the mirror and move [your hair] around until you balance your face.”
Jeri Baker”
― Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Watcher's Guide, Volume 1
“Do you have an affinity for any character in particular?”
MARTI: “Willow is probably closest to who I really was. I was an egghead, and I didn’t date until college. I was totally antisocial, and I was very, very, very shy. I couldn’t talk to boys. So I was much more Willow, although Willow is way cooler than I was. You know, there’s no one as geeky as me on this show. There’s nobody as awkward and introverted, and creepy as I was. I scared my friends. I was just a big drama nerd—I was too gregarious, too silly, then I would withdraw, and then I was too quiet. A couple of other girls and I were the biggest nerds in the universe. We were pizza-faced and just completely couldn’t talk. There was a hall that wasn’t actually a classroom, like an in-between place, called Room 6—it didn’t lead anywhere, it was just a dead end. We would stay in Room 6 because no one ever walked through there. That’s where we would hide so we wouldn’t have to talk to people.
“It wasn’t the hardest time in my life, because I had a support system. I had what Buffy has. I had my Xander and my Willow and we had each other and we got through it. Man, thank God those weren’t my glory days. I hope my glory days are still ahead.”
Marti Noxon”
― Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Watcher's Guide, Volume 1
MARTI: “Willow is probably closest to who I really was. I was an egghead, and I didn’t date until college. I was totally antisocial, and I was very, very, very shy. I couldn’t talk to boys. So I was much more Willow, although Willow is way cooler than I was. You know, there’s no one as geeky as me on this show. There’s nobody as awkward and introverted, and creepy as I was. I scared my friends. I was just a big drama nerd—I was too gregarious, too silly, then I would withdraw, and then I was too quiet. A couple of other girls and I were the biggest nerds in the universe. We were pizza-faced and just completely couldn’t talk. There was a hall that wasn’t actually a classroom, like an in-between place, called Room 6—it didn’t lead anywhere, it was just a dead end. We would stay in Room 6 because no one ever walked through there. That’s where we would hide so we wouldn’t have to talk to people.
“It wasn’t the hardest time in my life, because I had a support system. I had what Buffy has. I had my Xander and my Willow and we had each other and we got through it. Man, thank God those weren’t my glory days. I hope my glory days are still ahead.”
Marti Noxon”
― Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Watcher's Guide, Volume 1
“Welcome to the Hellmouth.
An emotionally safe place to be?
No way.
Because on the lot, and in the interviews, and through the day-to-day encounters we had with the cast and crew, we came to understand the dedication everyone connected with Buffy brings to their craft.
They talked about having to spar with their agents over accepting positions at Buffy (“the vampire what? Are you nuts?”). They shared with us the painful truth that when the twenty-minute presentation of Buffy was shown to “the suits” around town, no one wanted it. It was passed over. It was not picked up. And then, finally, twelve episodes were ordered so that Buffy could serve as a mid-season replacement series. Hardly a sign of enthusiasm or confidence.
It was the critics who found Buffy first, and then the fans. And it was a huge, diverse audience of fans: horror devotees, teenagers, Boomers—anyone who watched the show and realized this wasn't just about icky things that go bump in the night. This was a show about the heart…by people who were pouring their hearts and souls into it.
A shared vision.”
― Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Watcher's Guide, Volume 1
An emotionally safe place to be?
No way.
Because on the lot, and in the interviews, and through the day-to-day encounters we had with the cast and crew, we came to understand the dedication everyone connected with Buffy brings to their craft.
They talked about having to spar with their agents over accepting positions at Buffy (“the vampire what? Are you nuts?”). They shared with us the painful truth that when the twenty-minute presentation of Buffy was shown to “the suits” around town, no one wanted it. It was passed over. It was not picked up. And then, finally, twelve episodes were ordered so that Buffy could serve as a mid-season replacement series. Hardly a sign of enthusiasm or confidence.
It was the critics who found Buffy first, and then the fans. And it was a huge, diverse audience of fans: horror devotees, teenagers, Boomers—anyone who watched the show and realized this wasn't just about icky things that go bump in the night. This was a show about the heart…by people who were pouring their hearts and souls into it.
A shared vision.”
― Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Watcher's Guide, Volume 1
“Then Willow musters up the courage to invite Oz to Buffy’s surprise birthday party in “Surprise”—and he is immediately initiated into the Scooby Gang when he sees a vampire explode into dust. He joins in the heist of the rocket launcher without so much as batting an eye: “So, do you guys steal weapons from the army a lot?” he asks. And he makes it very clear where he stands:
Oz: “Sometimes when I’m sitting in class, I’m not thinking about class, ’cause you know that could never happen, I think about kissing you and then it’s like everything stops. It’s like freeze frame. Willow kissage…but I’m not gonna kiss you.”
Willow: “What? But…freeze frame…”
Oz: “Well, to the casual observer, it would appear like you want to make your friend Xander jealous. Or even the score or something. That’s on the empty side. See, in my fantasy, when I’m kissing you…you’re kissing me. It’s okay, I can wait.”
—“INNOCENCE””
― Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Watcher's Guide, Volume 1
Oz: “Sometimes when I’m sitting in class, I’m not thinking about class, ’cause you know that could never happen, I think about kissing you and then it’s like everything stops. It’s like freeze frame. Willow kissage…but I’m not gonna kiss you.”
Willow: “What? But…freeze frame…”
Oz: “Well, to the casual observer, it would appear like you want to make your friend Xander jealous. Or even the score or something. That’s on the empty side. See, in my fantasy, when I’m kissing you…you’re kissing me. It’s okay, I can wait.”
—“INNOCENCE””
― Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Watcher's Guide, Volume 1
“And yet, there is an odd resonance to the discord of his actions:
Buffy: “It’s so weird…Every time something like that happens, my first instinct is to run and tell Angel. I can’t believe it’s the same person. He’s the complete opposite of what he was.”
Willow: “Well…sort of, except…”
Buffy: “Except what?”
Willow: “You’re still the only thing he thinks about.”
—“PASSION””
― Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Watcher's Guide, Volume 1
Buffy: “It’s so weird…Every time something like that happens, my first instinct is to run and tell Angel. I can’t believe it’s the same person. He’s the complete opposite of what he was.”
Willow: “Well…sort of, except…”
Buffy: “Except what?”
Willow: “You’re still the only thing he thinks about.”
—“PASSION””
― Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Watcher's Guide, Volume 1
“Now their relationship has reached the apex of its growth: they have faced many dangers together; Buffy has discovered and accepted the terrible truths that lie behind her beloved’s face. She loves him completely…and she is pondering her next step…to love him utterly. She has accepted that death stares her in the face each night—her death, but perhaps Angel’s death—as she has a terrible dream, only to be reassured by his loving presence when she runs to him:
Buffy: “…I like seeing you first thing in the morning—”
Angel: “It’s bedtime for me.”
Buffy: “Then I like seeing you at bedtime…I mean…you know what I mean. That I like seeing you. And the part at the end of the night where we say good-bye, it’s getting harder.”
Angel: “Yeah, it is.”
—“SURPRISE””
― Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Watcher's Guide, Volume 1
Buffy: “…I like seeing you first thing in the morning—”
Angel: “It’s bedtime for me.”
Buffy: “Then I like seeing you at bedtime…I mean…you know what I mean. That I like seeing you. And the part at the end of the night where we say good-bye, it’s getting harder.”
Angel: “Yeah, it is.”
—“SURPRISE””
― Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Watcher's Guide, Volume 1
“Later, after Angel takes Buffy skating in an effort to recapture her lost girlhood dreams, they do battle with an assassin from the Order of Taraka. Angel is still wearing his vamp face when she tends to his wounds, even as he’s urging her to flee:
Angel: “I—you shouldn’t have to touch me when I’m like this.”
Buffy: “Like—what?”
Angel: “You know. When I’m…”
Buffy: “Oh. I didn’t even notice.”
—“WHAT’S MY LINE? PART 1”
― Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Watcher's Guide, Volume 1
Angel: “I—you shouldn’t have to touch me when I’m like this.”
Buffy: “Like—what?”
Angel: “You know. When I’m…”
Buffy: “Oh. I didn’t even notice.”
—“WHAT’S MY LINE? PART 1”
― Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Watcher's Guide, Volume 1
“In “Halloween,” Buffy hopes to please Angel by dressing as a noblewoman after seeing a sketch of one in a Watcher’s Diary about him. After their misadventures, they debrief:
Angel: “I don’t get it, Buffy. Why did you think I’d like you better dressed that way?”
Buffy: “I—I just wanted to be a real girl, for once. The kind of fancy girl you liked when you were my age—what?”
Angel: “I hated the girls back then. Especially the noblewomen.”
Buffy: “You did?”
Angel: “They were just incredibly dull. Simpering morons, the lot of them. I always wished I could meet someone…exciting. Interesting.”
—“HALLOWEEN””
― Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Watcher's Guide, Volume 1
Angel: “I don’t get it, Buffy. Why did you think I’d like you better dressed that way?”
Buffy: “I—I just wanted to be a real girl, for once. The kind of fancy girl you liked when you were my age—what?”
Angel: “I hated the girls back then. Especially the noblewomen.”
Buffy: “You did?”
Angel: “They were just incredibly dull. Simpering morons, the lot of them. I always wished I could meet someone…exciting. Interesting.”
—“HALLOWEEN””
― Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Watcher's Guide, Volume 1
“Buffy: “I was just thinking, wouldn’t it be funny to see each other sometime when it wasn’t a blood thing? Not funny ha ha.”
Angel: “What are you saying, you want to have a date?”
Buffy: “No—”
Angel: “You don’t want to have a date?”
Buffy: “Who said ‘date’? I never said ‘date.’”
Angel: “Right. You just want to have coffee or something.”
Buffy: “Coffee?”
Angel: “I knew this would happen.”
Buffy: “Really? And what do you think is happening?”
Angel: “You’re sixteen years old, I’m 241.”
Buffy: “I’ve done the math.”
Angel: “You don’t know what you’re doing, you don’t know what you want.”
Buffy: “Oh, I think I do: I want out of this conversation.”
Angel: “Listen. If we date, you and I both know one thing’s going to lead to another.”
Buffy: “One thing’s already led to another. It’s a little late to be reading me the warning label.”
Angel: “I’m just trying to protect you. This could get out of control.”
Buffy: “Isn’t that the way it’s supposed to be?”
Angel: “This isn’t some fairy tale; when I kiss you, you don’t wake up from a deep sleep and live happily ever after.”
Buffy: “No. When you kiss me, I want to die.”
—“REPTILE BOY””
― Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Watcher's Guide, Volume 1
Angel: “What are you saying, you want to have a date?”
Buffy: “No—”
Angel: “You don’t want to have a date?”
Buffy: “Who said ‘date’? I never said ‘date.’”
Angel: “Right. You just want to have coffee or something.”
Buffy: “Coffee?”
Angel: “I knew this would happen.”
Buffy: “Really? And what do you think is happening?”
Angel: “You’re sixteen years old, I’m 241.”
Buffy: “I’ve done the math.”
Angel: “You don’t know what you’re doing, you don’t know what you want.”
Buffy: “Oh, I think I do: I want out of this conversation.”
Angel: “Listen. If we date, you and I both know one thing’s going to lead to another.”
Buffy: “One thing’s already led to another. It’s a little late to be reading me the warning label.”
Angel: “I’m just trying to protect you. This could get out of control.”
Buffy: “Isn’t that the way it’s supposed to be?”
Angel: “This isn’t some fairy tale; when I kiss you, you don’t wake up from a deep sleep and live happily ever after.”
Buffy: “No. When you kiss me, I want to die.”
—“REPTILE BOY””
― Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Watcher's Guide, Volume 1
“By the end of this episode, Angel can laugh at himself a little and make an admission:
Buffy: “Love makes you do the wacky.”
Angel: “What?”
Buffy: “Crazy stuff.”
Angel: “Oh. Crazy like a 241-year-old being jealous of a high school junior?”
Buffy: “Are you fessing up?”
Angel: “I thought about it. Maybe he bothers me a little.”
Buffy: “I don’t love Xander.”
Angel: “But he’s in your life. He gets to be there when I can’t. Take your classes, eat your food, hear your jokes and complaints. He gets to see you in the sunlight.”
Buffy: “I don’t look that good in direct light.”
Angel: “It’ll be morning soon.”
Buffy: “I should probably go….I could walk you home.”
—“SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED”
― Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Watcher's Guide, Volume 1
Buffy: “Love makes you do the wacky.”
Angel: “What?”
Buffy: “Crazy stuff.”
Angel: “Oh. Crazy like a 241-year-old being jealous of a high school junior?”
Buffy: “Are you fessing up?”
Angel: “I thought about it. Maybe he bothers me a little.”
Buffy: “I don’t love Xander.”
Angel: “But he’s in your life. He gets to be there when I can’t. Take your classes, eat your food, hear your jokes and complaints. He gets to see you in the sunlight.”
Buffy: “I don’t look that good in direct light.”
Angel: “It’ll be morning soon.”
Buffy: “I should probably go….I could walk you home.”
—“SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED”
― Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Watcher's Guide, Volume 1
“When Buffy finally grinds the Master’s bones into dust, she collapses into Angel’s arms, sobbing out her fear, her frustration, and her victory to the one she loves best.
In the next episode, “Some Assembly Required,” they move on, becoming more of a twosome. Which includes quarreling:
Buffy: “Are you jealous?”
Angel: “Of Xander? Please, he’s just a kid.”
Buffy: “Is it ’cause I danced with him?”
Angel: “‘Danced with’ is a pretty loose term. ‘Mated with’ might be a little closer…”
Buffy: “Don’t you think you’re being a little unfair? One little dance, which I only did to make you crazy, by the way; behold my success!”
Angel: “I am not jealous!”
Buffy: “Oh, you’re not jealous. What, vampires don’t get jealous?”
Angel: “See? Whenever we fight, you always bring up the vampire thing.”
Buffy: “I didn’t come here to fight.”
—“SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED””
― Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Watcher's Guide, Volume 1
In the next episode, “Some Assembly Required,” they move on, becoming more of a twosome. Which includes quarreling:
Buffy: “Are you jealous?”
Angel: “Of Xander? Please, he’s just a kid.”
Buffy: “Is it ’cause I danced with him?”
Angel: “‘Danced with’ is a pretty loose term. ‘Mated with’ might be a little closer…”
Buffy: “Don’t you think you’re being a little unfair? One little dance, which I only did to make you crazy, by the way; behold my success!”
Angel: “I am not jealous!”
Buffy: “Oh, you’re not jealous. What, vampires don’t get jealous?”
Angel: “See? Whenever we fight, you always bring up the vampire thing.”
Buffy: “I didn’t come here to fight.”
—“SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED””
― Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Watcher's Guide, Volume 1
“Buffy: “Is that it? Is that everything? ’Cause you woke me up from a really nice dream.”
Angel: “Sorry. I’ll go."
He heads for the window. Stands facing it as Buffy hunkers down in bed, facing away from him.
Angel (quietly): “I missed you.”
She can’t reply, but the hardness in her face melts away. After a couple of beats, she turns, her true emotions about to spill out.
Buffy: “I missed—”
But he’s gone. She stares at the window, unhappy.
—“WHEN SHE WAS BAD””
― Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Watcher's Guide, Volume 1
Angel: “Sorry. I’ll go."
He heads for the window. Stands facing it as Buffy hunkers down in bed, facing away from him.
Angel (quietly): “I missed you.”
She can’t reply, but the hardness in her face melts away. After a couple of beats, she turns, her true emotions about to spill out.
Buffy: “I missed—”
But he’s gone. She stares at the window, unhappy.
—“WHEN SHE WAS BAD””
― Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Watcher's Guide, Volume 1
“Buffy sets down her weapon—a crossbow—walks to him, and offers him her neck, saying, "Go ahead." When he only looks at her, they reach an understanding: it's not as easy as it looks. Their relationship is deeper and more complex than that.
When they meet again, agreeing that they must part, they tenderly kiss...the Slayer's cross-shaped brand searing the heart of Angel.
Angel vanishes for three episodes, and when he returns, in "Out of Mind, Out of Sight," he is avoiding Buffy:
Giles: "Is that why you're here? To see her?"
Angel: (shakes his head): "I can't. It's...it's too hard for me to be around her."
Giles: "A vampire in love with the Slayer. It's rather poetic, in a maudlin sort of way."
In the first season's finale, "Prophecy Girl," the joy Buffy feels upon seeing Angel is wrenching...once she knows that he's discussing the fact that she will die in less than twenty-four hours. "You think I want anything to happen to you? You think I could stand it?" he asks her.”
― Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Watcher's Guide, Volume 1
When they meet again, agreeing that they must part, they tenderly kiss...the Slayer's cross-shaped brand searing the heart of Angel.
Angel vanishes for three episodes, and when he returns, in "Out of Mind, Out of Sight," he is avoiding Buffy:
Giles: "Is that why you're here? To see her?"
Angel: (shakes his head): "I can't. It's...it's too hard for me to be around her."
Giles: "A vampire in love with the Slayer. It's rather poetic, in a maudlin sort of way."
In the first season's finale, "Prophecy Girl," the joy Buffy feels upon seeing Angel is wrenching...once she knows that he's discussing the fact that she will die in less than twenty-four hours. "You think I want anything to happen to you? You think I could stand it?" he asks her.”
― Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Watcher's Guide, Volume 1
“Still, Buffy wavers in her duty as the Slayer: "He's never done anything to hurt me." And she and Willow talk about him pretty much as they would talk about any boy they were interested in:
Willow: "Okay, here's something I gotta know: when Angel kissed you, I mean before he turned into...How was it?"
Buffy: "Unbelievable."
—"ANGEL"”
― Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Watcher's Guide, Volume 1
Willow: "Okay, here's something I gotta know: when Angel kissed you, I mean before he turned into...How was it?"
Buffy: "Unbelievable."
—"ANGEL"”
― Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Watcher's Guide, Volume 1
“And the next evening, when she returns from her life in the daylight, he confesses: "I did a lot of thinking today. I can't really be around you...because when I am...all I can think about is how badly I want to kiss you—"
Unable to conquer his passions, he does kiss her, fiercely, until, bloodlust upon him, he pulls back and reveals his true face:
He is her enemy.
He is a vampire.”
― Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Watcher's Guide, Volume 1
Unable to conquer his passions, he does kiss her, fiercely, until, bloodlust upon him, he pulls back and reveals his true face:
He is her enemy.
He is a vampire.”
― Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Watcher's Guide, Volume 1
“Angel: You think I want anything to happen to you? Do you think I could stand it?”
― Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Watcher's Guide, Volume 1
― Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Watcher's Guide, Volume 1
