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Are you a DVD kind of guy?
I watch nothing but DVDs anymore. But I don't persue
the extras, either because I don't have time or I don't
want to know. Like, I don't want to know anything about
The Matrix; I like to pretend it's all real. But once,
I did listen to Trey Parker and his friends do commentary
on Cannibal: The Musical. Because really, how could
you not?
During season 2, Buffy [Sarah Michelle Gellar] loses
her virginity to Angel [David Boreanaz], which causes
him to become evil again, thanks to a Gypsy curse. Based
on a real-life experience?
It's not based on my experience, but it's based on
the experience of many people - which is, I slept with
him, and he became mean. That episode represents exactly
what the show is and what we try to do with it. We've
never come as close and as true to the metaphor and
the emotion of the pain of growing up as we did with
that episode.
But what's the deal with the vampire physiology?
Don't you have to be alive to, you know?
Well, you know, vampire's aren't real: I have that
to fall back on. If vampires couldn't have erections,
our show would have been 12 episodes long.
The second season gave us Spike [James Martsers],
the sexy-sinister platinum-blond bloodsucker. Who came
up with his look?
That would be me. There's a little Billy Idol, a little
Kiefer Sutherland in The Lost boys, and every guy in
a black coat. I really thought the peroxide would define
his face better, though James does curse my name for
the burning scalp.
I've heard that for Oz - the werewolf played by
Seth Green [Austin Powers], who's introduced in season
2 - you drew more from your own life than any other
character. Touched by the lycanthropy, are you?
No, I just knew a guy named Oz. Kinda short. Played
lead guitar for a band. He had this incredible cool
about him; he wore bowling shirts before anybody else
did. I thought, "That's the guy that would fall
in love with Willow."
Oz and Willow [Alyson Hannigan] were such a popular
couple. If Seth hadn't left the show in season 4, would
you have still pursued Willow's current lesbian storyline?
I probably would have broken them up at one point.
It was something we had discussed - the idea of going
to college, exploring or expanding your sexuality. But
that's the thing about TV: Something unexpected happens,
you roll with it.
Is there a season 2 example of this principle?
"Bewitched, Bothered, & Bewildered,"
in which Xander [Nicholas Brendon] becomes a Love God.
We wrote that one in a matter of days because Sarah
had to host Saturday Night Live. We had this other episode
ready - the death of Jenny Calendar [Professor Giles'
Gypsy love interest, played by Robia LaMorte] - but
we were like, "We have to think of something that
will turn Sarah into a rat for four days because she'll
be gone."
Jenny Calendar was superhot.
Oh, yeah.
Why did she have to die?
Because somebody had to die. We had to prove that Angel
really was the badass we were saying he was. So we had
to take away someone we loved - and we loooved her.
But...but she was superhot. Can't you bring her
back to life?
[Sighs] Don't I wish.
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