Buffy stuff

[avram]

Via Gary Farber’s Amygdala weblog, I found this long message board post written by someone who was at a panel about Buffy the Vampire Slayer at the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. The panel included Joss Whedon, Marti Noxon, Alyson Hannigan (Willow), Nicholas Brendon (Zander), James Marsters (Spike), Michelle Trachtenberg (Dawn), and a couple of production people. There are some minor spoilers for Season 7, and larger spoilers for Season 6 (which British readers may not have seen yet), so I’m hiding my comments behind an lj-cut.

I’m a bit relieved to see that Whedon and Noxon admit that Season 6 was “basically out of control” — it implies that they know they’ve gotten off track and will be trying to get back on. On the other hand, Whedon says that the show started out being about fantasy and metaphor and he was trying to bring in reality and reject metaphor in Season 6, which is discouraging, because that’s a large part of what I disliked in Season 6 (especially the way Willow’s magic use decayed from an interesting metaphor to a boring literal drug trip), and if he thinks the problem was the presence of metaphor rather than the way he rejected metaphor — if he’s going to keep trying to reject metaphor, in other words, just go about it differently — I fear for the future of the show.

But apparently Season 7 is going to be returning to the basics. The first episode apparently is going to open with a view of the rebuilt Sunnyvale High School.

Comments

Whoot. :)

[annathepiper]

I wasn't too terribly worried about season 7, at all, but it's great to know that Whedon is on top of things. :)