Brendan Murphy
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And also because he's so charming and he's so funny and for a lot of the show he's either helpful or he's sort of neutered and he can't really hurt humans.
We overlook the fact that he's been a vampire for 170 years.
He keeps telling us he's evil.
He's definitely done all of the worst things a vampire can do, like murdered huge civilizations.
And yeah, he's been off all around Europe and Asia killing people.
But because we don't see that on screen, we go like, oh, but he's a good lad, isn't he?
Yeah, so it's the final stand.
And Buffy's kind of at her lowest ebb.
Willow has, like in season six, she goes wild and has to be sent off to a kind of Hogwarts-like establishment.
Yeah, phenomenal.
She just has this insane power and she's...
Yeah, almost like a slayer herself.
But all of Buffy's friends, everyone in that network is sort of gone.
And she's on her own against the biggest foe.
Got to pull it together.
And it's good versus evil, which we will never get sick of.
And actually, I think, you know, it was popular in the 90s to see these stories.
And then we started flirting with the idea of, oh, what about the bad guys?
Let's hear their point of view, anti-heroes, things like that.
And I think we maybe need to go back to good old-fashioned good versus evil, rooting for the good guys.