I'm so excited to reaad through this thread and find a few tidbits that say I might be right and nothing that says otherwise!
There's a part of me that believes this was always more or less the game plan (certainly from HLOD on), and that Joss doesn't always tell us the whole truth in interviews. I need to recheck this, but on the season 1 DVD, he does commentary about how he thought of Buffy which is that he imagined an opening scene about a blonde being menaced, only then it turned out that instead of being eaten, she kicked monster booty. Well, the actual opening scene of the series is of a blonde girl who looks like she's probably going to get eaten by her date, but the reversal isn't that the blonde is the slayer, it's that the blonde is a vampire, and she's the one who is going to munch on her date. It's a sort of double reversal. But in the interview, Joss lays it out the way it would look on the surface (in a show called BtVS, you'd expect the opening scene to be what Joss describes).
But even if it was all an accident, it was a pretty accident.
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There's a part of me that believes this was always more or less the game plan (certainly from HLOD on), and that Joss doesn't always tell us the whole truth in interviews. I need to recheck this, but on the season 1 DVD, he does commentary about how he thought of Buffy which is that he imagined an opening scene about a blonde being menaced, only then it turned out that instead of being eaten, she kicked monster booty. Well, the actual opening scene of the series is of a blonde girl who looks like she's probably going to get eaten by her date, but the reversal isn't that the blonde is the slayer, it's that the blonde is a vampire, and she's the one who is going to munch on her date. It's a sort of double reversal. But in the interview, Joss lays it out the way it would look on the surface (in a show called BtVS, you'd expect the opening scene to be what Joss describes).
But even if it was all an accident, it was a pretty accident.