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Miranda Sawyer

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2385 total appearances

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Talk ’90s to me
Buffy the Vampire Slayer! – How a surprise monster hit redefined horror

He's obviously still overseeing it, but he's obviously got Angel.

Talk ’90s to me
Buffy the Vampire Slayer! – How a surprise monster hit redefined horror

He's also got Firefly.

Talk ’90s to me
Buffy the Vampire Slayer! – How a surprise monster hit redefined horror

as well and so there is another writer it's a woman writer called Marty I can't remember her surname but she so she is obviously you know it's very difficult isn't it when the original writer moves on and he still has overview and I think you know it's the general regard that she has done

Talk ’90s to me
Buffy the Vampire Slayer! – How a surprise monster hit redefined horror

You know, she does a good job.

Talk ’90s to me
Buffy the Vampire Slayer! – How a surprise monster hit redefined horror

It's just it's much darker.

Talk ’90s to me
Buffy the Vampire Slayer! – How a surprise monster hit redefined horror

The format I find really interesting because you can make parallels with Harry Potter, which I will do in a bit.

Talk ’90s to me
Buffy the Vampire Slayer! – How a surprise monster hit redefined horror

But there is a point in young adulthood, which is this point, where you're a bit like, oh man, this is it.

Talk ’90s to me
Buffy the Vampire Slayer! – How a surprise monster hit redefined horror

So I've done my school, I've done my university, and now I've got to be kind of responsible for stuff and it's quite hard.

Talk ’90s to me
Buffy the Vampire Slayer! – How a surprise monster hit redefined horror

No, it's not.

Talk ’90s to me
Buffy the Vampire Slayer! – How a surprise monster hit redefined horror

Yeah, don't you understand?

Talk ’90s to me
Buffy the Vampire Slayer! – How a surprise monster hit redefined horror

I'm more important than that.

Talk ’90s to me
Buffy the Vampire Slayer! – How a surprise monster hit redefined horror

Yeah.

Talk ’90s to me
Buffy the Vampire Slayer! – How a surprise monster hit redefined horror

It's like, it's tough.

Talk ’90s to me
Buffy the Vampire Slayer! – How a surprise monster hit redefined horror

The parallel I was going to draw between Buffy and Harry Potter is, I mean, obviously Buffy

Talk ’90s to me
Buffy the Vampire Slayer! – How a surprise monster hit redefined horror

There's so many parallels, meaning that, you know, you're chosen, you're the special one, you're the only one that can defeat.

Talk ’90s to me
Buffy the Vampire Slayer! – How a surprise monster hit redefined horror

The parallel also for fans is to do with, because there's seven films, is that you start off the first film's a bit iffy.

Talk ’90s to me
Buffy the Vampire Slayer! – How a surprise monster hit redefined horror

It gets better, it gets better, it gets better.

Talk ’90s to me
Buffy the Vampire Slayer! – How a surprise monster hit redefined horror

And then it goes dark.

Talk ’90s to me
Buffy the Vampire Slayer! – How a surprise monster hit redefined horror

And everyone's a bit like, oh, it's dark.

Talk ’90s to me
Buffy the Vampire Slayer! – How a surprise monster hit redefined horror

And the sixth season, everyone's like, oh, no, it's really dark.