Brendan Murphy

People think it's weird.

I mean, there's other slight plot holes in terms of like the police never calling up the vampire threat.

Yeah.

The death count's pretty high.

There's this kind of role that I think for Buffy that she's been told she has to fulfill.

And she kind of can do.

She could pass.

You know, she auditions for the cheerleading team.

She's got a very sort of all-American look.

She looks like an innocent blonde girl just going to school.

And she didn't choose to be a slayer either.

It's just something that's within her.

And then she's being told by, you know, her watcher, you have this, you know, this power and responsibility as well that you have to go out and fight the forces of evil when she just wants to go to the prom.

The WB was like, I think they were just starting around that time, putting out stuff that was geared towards a teen demographic.

So there were lots of other shows.

This was a little bit of a standout because of its supernatural nature and also the sort of form in which they broke genre barriers.

They had a musical episode they started.

But when it first came out, I think the WB just thought, oh, well, it's...

The film did all right with the demographic that we're looking at, and they didn't really think anything beyond that.

But it did soon to outgrow the channel and sort of bring a lot of notoriety to it as well.