Awww, her answers made me so happy.

I was really scared that her personal Buffy highlight was going to be being able to wear black and heels in the final episode or something shallow like that. Glad to be proven wrong.

[ edited for capitalisation by Caroline on 2005-08-15 09:25 ]

narky | August 15, 10:50 CET

That was kool! And little Dawny is 20 now!! All growed up.

nixygirl | August 15, 11:53 CET

Nice little interview. I just watched "The Body" again yesterday. It's not one I watch that often, I generally skip over it because I can't take it, so it had been a while. God, those performances were amazing! I think MT is a very talented young woman.

marmoset | August 15, 15:35 CET

That link isn't working for me. Can anyone tell me what the interview says please. :-)

lynnie | August 15, 17:11 CET

When I first tried it it was not working for me either. There was a link in the message statement that was highlighted in blue, "refresh" I think, that took you to the site. The error message is not showing up now, so I cannot go back and check.

Try it again, with that in mind.

newcj | August 15, 17:16 CET

Ah Titan Mags and their weird setup. Anyhow, I've changed the link. So follow that and then click on the Buffy magazine link to read the article.

Simon | August 15, 18:05 CET

"The Body" really is one of the strongest episodes of the series. Powerful script, and great acting all around (MT included).

Mmmmm... pain.

Galvatron | August 15, 22:19 CET

I've seen The Body countless times and I still get choked up at two moments. Anya's monologue and Dawn's meltdown viewed through glass.

ringworm | August 15, 22:21 CET

Yes, it's Anya's monologue that I most identify with. I definitely think that EC and MT have some of the strongest perfomances in the ep (though everyone is incredible). I can't watch it very often though. But MT and SMG at the end of "Forever"--they were both amazing. That scene is frickin' brilliant!

marmoset | August 16, 01:50 CET

MT certainly can act. It was here "Is this blood" scene that first made me realise how good she was and she had many more great scenes. I hope she does realise what a great chance BtVS gave her, and everyone else, to do everything from near slapstick to pathos and outright tragedy.

And in The Body it's Buffy's "Mom? Mom........? Mommy?" line that always gets me.

zz9 | August 16, 02:39 CET

Too bad that Buffy ended when it did - it really seemed that Dawn's character and plot was beginning to shine through. Think of all of the possibilities had there been another season, which I still believe could have gone well. Anyway, I really feel sad reading these kinds of interviews because there were plans for SO MANY Buffy characters to be on Angel, and then.......... GAVINIE2JKFGBTMDWS!!!!@ WB :(:(

Christopher | August 16, 03:44 CET

Yeah....there was gonna be a lot of cool stuff. They wanted to bring Oz back so he could teach Nina how to curb her wolfiness, and I think they also wanted Dana to return as well at some point. Also, they had plans for Willow to come in and somehow split Illyria so they had Illyria and Fred...though I'm not fond of that one bit because they stated that Fred's soul or her self or something no longer existed...it's not like Angel's soul where she could have pulled it from the ether.

Still though, so many cool ideas.

Emma Frost | August 16, 20:49 CET

Well, I always thought that Fred's soul had to go somewhere. Who better to find it than Willow?

Willowy | August 16, 20:54 CET

Besides, it was only the people who wanted Illyria to return, such as Knox, that made any mention of what had happened to Fred's soul. Hardly what i would call trustworthy information. They were never exactly going to say "Oh yeah, Fred's soul is still in there somewhere. Here is what you have to do to destroy Illyria and save your friend." Truthfully there is no solid evidence that Fred was really gone, just the dubious word of a couple of Illyria's followers.

Buffysmglover | August 16, 20:59 CET

Yeah, I never believed Dr. Sparrow either. I was really surprised when they didn't do any research on it.

brownishcoat | August 16, 22:35 CET