How successful did you think Buffy would be? Did you ever think it would be as successful as it is?
Bekci from Catterick
I always thought it would be successful, but you never know how an audience will react and you never know what people will like. Joss seemed to be a lot more confident and he said specifically that this will not be an overnight success - it will take time and it will be a question of word of mouth, but it is going exactly where I would have hoped.
There has been a lot of speculation on the Internet that Sarah Michelle Gellar hardly does any of her own fight sequences. Is this true?
Joe from Nottingham
Basically, there are sequences that she cannot do because if she breaks something we are totally up the creek without a paddle. She always does pieces of the fight and the close-ups, but the producers won’t allow her to do some of the stuff and we have an extremely good stunt double called Sophie, but Sarah will always muck in!
Do you believe in any of the pagan rights you use in the series?
Jane Thomson Stobbs from Edinburgh
Most of it is out of Joss’s head – there has to be some believability in the actor to make it work and at that moment I believe it.
There is one part of the ceremony that got built into reality in the library which is "smudging", which is burning sage. That is what the American Natives used to do and it is very good at cleaning bad energy. Because we talk about so much stuff in the library, the library gets a bit gummed up sometimes and there are back-to-back and very long scenes and by the end of the second day we are champing at the bit. So I say, "let’s do a smudge" to clean the air a bit.
