Mallory Rubin

And I love that.

And I think, again, that's emblematic of like you have even something like Jonathan's return, obviously.

Giles, like what role do I have?

Willow and Tara.

Spike, you know, could I be a...

Scooby, do I want to be?

Faith coming back, Buffy.

But then Adam and Riley, so much of the way their stories are positioned, Riley's crisis of faith and Adam, I am the one with this awareness about what it means to be alive in a way that nobody else possesses.

There's a version of that that would be, like, really, I think, scintillating, this idea of being pieced together from other bits of humanity and demons and machine.

And then what does that make you and what do you do with that insight?

Like, I like that.

As an idea.

Yeah, I love the Xander season.

I really agree.

I think it's so compelling in the highs and the lows.

I think he feels simultaneously very assured as a character and insecure as a person, which is a great combo, you know?

And the ways in which he...

is like navigating his own anxiety about his place in the world feels, I think, very true to the Xander Harris that we have spent time with and also to just like maybe how you would be navigating that phase of your life if you went from high school into what should be the college years and your friends go off, not only to college, but to college together and you're not there, but you're close enough to be reminded every minute of every day that you're not there.

And you actually have this like,

pretty amazingly compelling relationship with this smoke show who's obsessed with you, but you're also like constantly having to remind her in plain view of other people, like this is a private moment and this is like, you know, et cetera.