The Watcher's Guide; Volume 2

"I'm the Slayer. Slay-er. Chosen One? She who hangs out a lot in cemeteries?
Ask around. Look it up: 'Slayer comma The.'"
-- Buffy, "Doomed"

As long as there have been vampires, there has been the Slayer. One girl in all the world, to find them where they gather and to stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their numbers.

Dig into it: all--new character profiles, episode guides, quotables, and more -- a fully updated volume filled with the latest dirt on your favorite cemetery-hopper!

The Mayor, Faith, Mr. Trick, Angel's return, Wesley Wyndam-Pryce, snow in Sunnydale, Graduation Day, Zachary Kralick, the end of the world -- again!, Spike, Veruca, Tara, Riley, Maggie Walsh, The Initiative, Adam -- and much, much more!

The Buffyverse: The World According to Buffy Summers.
Everybody Hurts: In Sunnydale, love can be downright scary.
Anarchy in the USA: How Buffy and Giles came to be footloose and Council-free.
Power Girls: Buffy, Kendra, Faith -- wasn't it supposed to be "Chosen One?"

BONUS: Creating Buffy: From brainstorm, to script, to genius on the small screen -- with a few tiny detours along the way.
Go behind the scenes for Season Four's pivotal episode "The I in Team" and catch all the action, from scouting locations to running lines with the stellar cast to music editing -- it's all inside!

THE GUYS, THE GALS, THE LORE, THE LINGO
The chillingly complete WATCHER'S GUIDE VOLUME 2 will slay you

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Foreword

Over the past eight years Joss Whedon has transformed Buffy the Vampire Slayer from her original one-note movie incarnation of horror and comedy into a young woman any Watcher would be proud to be associated with. Since the television show first aired in 1997, Buffy Summers and her circle of family and friends have been shaped by fantastic expressions of the horrors every adolescent encounters in the growing process. Their demons manifest in the flesh, but the fears they bring with them are universal. Fear of isolation, of being an outsider. Fear of making the wrong choices in romance. Fear of losing a loved one.

In the time it has been on the air, Buffy has truly reached the status of "cultural phenomenon." This means more than appearing on refrigerator magnets and door hangers (although this edition of The Watcher's Guide covers that aspect as well). It means that Buffy and the other residents of Sunnydale have become a part of the world's vernacular. People who don't watch the show are at least acquainted with the premise. And people who do watch, embrace the characters and feel their trials and triumphs along with them.

In addition to fans' fascination with the characters, Buffy also has a strong element of metafiction. Viewers are both aware and appreciative that the situations and dialogue they view each week come from the minds of Joss and his fellow writers.

This book contains more information on both levels of the Buffyverse. It contains a complete episode guide for Seasons Three and Four, with cross-referenced continuity and in-depth character descriptions. It also contains more behind-the-scenes informationincluding a day-by-day look at the making of Season Four's pivotal episode, "The I in Team," -- than has ever been available before. We documented the process of turning ideas, words, photographs, and sketches into a televised episode 'in two weeks.

Our goal in assembling this material was to include everything we believe a true fan desires to know. We hope we have met that goal for you.

Nancy Holder

Jeff Mariotte

Maryelizabeth Hart

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