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Brendan Murphy

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
455 total appearances

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Talk โ€™90s to me
Buffy the Vampire Slayer! โ€“ How a surprise monster hit redefined horror

And Dawn is played by Michelle Trachtenberg so well.

Talk โ€™90s to me
Buffy the Vampire Slayer! โ€“ How a surprise monster hit redefined horror

And again, a really young actress taking on.

Talk โ€™90s to me
Buffy the Vampire Slayer! โ€“ How a surprise monster hit redefined horror

a really difficult role because for the first, I think it's like the first three or four episodes, she's not explained.

Talk โ€™90s to me
Buffy the Vampire Slayer! โ€“ How a surprise monster hit redefined horror

Buffy just didn't have a sister and now she has a sister.

Talk โ€™90s to me
Buffy the Vampire Slayer! โ€“ How a surprise monster hit redefined horror

And like, I think the collective feeling was like, what?

Talk โ€™90s to me
Buffy the Vampire Slayer! โ€“ How a surprise monster hit redefined horror

Were we just meant to... Was she in a cupboard?

Talk โ€™90s to me
Buffy the Vampire Slayer! โ€“ How a surprise monster hit redefined horror

Yeah.

Talk โ€™90s to me
Buffy the Vampire Slayer! โ€“ How a surprise monster hit redefined horror

But then it's explained where she came from, what she's there for.

Talk โ€™90s to me
Buffy the Vampire Slayer! โ€“ How a surprise monster hit redefined horror

And yeah, she's great.

Talk โ€™90s to me
Buffy the Vampire Slayer! โ€“ How a surprise monster hit redefined horror

And there's this lovely sort of exploration of sisterhood as well.

Talk โ€™90s to me
Buffy the Vampire Slayer! โ€“ How a surprise monster hit redefined horror

Absolutely.

Talk โ€™90s to me
Buffy the Vampire Slayer! โ€“ How a surprise monster hit redefined horror

Yeah.

Talk โ€™90s to me
Buffy the Vampire Slayer! โ€“ How a surprise monster hit redefined horror

Vulnerability is the superpower, it's the strength.

Talk โ€™90s to me
Buffy the Vampire Slayer! โ€“ How a surprise monster hit redefined horror

And there's, again, this wonderful ongoing sort of theme that slayers have always been one girl in all the world, one person.

Talk โ€™90s to me
Buffy the Vampire Slayer! โ€“ How a surprise monster hit redefined horror

You go alone and Buffy is the first slayer to have a team.

Talk โ€™90s to me
Buffy the Vampire Slayer! โ€“ How a surprise monster hit redefined horror

Yeah.

Talk โ€™90s to me
Buffy the Vampire Slayer! โ€“ How a surprise monster hit redefined horror

And that becomes her power.

Talk โ€™90s to me
Buffy the Vampire Slayer! โ€“ How a surprise monster hit redefined horror

And that's why she defeats, you know, the first evil, because she can work with others and is willing to go the extra mile for them.

Talk โ€™90s to me
Buffy the Vampire Slayer! โ€“ How a surprise monster hit redefined horror

Yeah, so, I mean, I should just say there are some amazing, like, there's so many standout episodes all the way through the season.

Talk โ€™90s to me
Buffy the Vampire Slayer! โ€“ How a surprise monster hit redefined horror

There's, well, yeah, it's pretty much all... Isn't that mad?