Brendan Murphy

It's amazing that you're admitting this.

Yeah, that's fair.

Yeah, I mean, it's the 90s.

They were still, you know, it started with a lower budget and building up, but it kind of stands up, right?

Yeah.

So he wrote the script, but he didn't direct it.

So it was kind of his vision, but it didn't go quite down how he wanted it to.

I think perhaps at the time people weren't taking it seriously as a concept.

And Joss Whedon is this, you know, wunderkind, this precocious young sci-fi nerd who has studied film and comic books and therefore in the TV show you get all of these wonderful references and whatnot.

But I think going through the Hollywood sort of film mill...

some of the things that he wanted to happen didn't quite happen.

Yeah.

She has this superpower.

And, you know, one of the sort of themes of Buffy is one girl in all the world.

So she is special.

She's outstanding.

But by the end of it, it's all of the women.

It's all of these young women just coming in, finding their own power and also no longer having to hide it because like a lot of the series of her making sure she's not rumbled.

She has to go out at night.

She can't tell other people.