The whole PaleyFest panel is now up on
Civilized James, courtesy of
fenderlove. :D
The Spuffy-related bits, for your reading pleasure, are:
Matt Roush: A coming-of-age allegory where high school really was Hell, where the wrong decision truly could herald the end of the world, where adolescent anxieties took on demonic form, and where even after graduation, a truly explosive event, the life lessons, and the after-life lessons, just kept coming, with all of the pain and joy and sex and friendship and betrayal and sex and consequences and death and sex that all of that implies. Yes,
Buffy was a
very hot show. And yes, it was good for me. In fact, the new issue of TV Guide just out ranks the scene of Buffy and Spike bringing down the house when they did the hot nasty as... (cheers from the audience) ...yeah. The number one hottest scene
ever. Yep. Even outranked
The Thorn Birds. I mean, really, come on.
(PaleyFest, 3-08)Matt Roush: (to Sarah) Asked all the time. Final analysis, final verdict: Angel or Spike?
Michelle Trachtenberg: Well, who's sitting on stage? (nods towards James)
(PaleyFest, 3-08)Sarah Michelle Gellar: (to James) You look at things lately and I've seen a bunch of lists recently where there were talks about favourite characters, favourite shows... I saw the best love scenes this week - it was you and me, by the way. (audience cheers)
James Marsters: Oh, really?
Sarah Michelle Gellar: Yeah! (nods towards Matt Roush) Thank
him! Thank
him!
Matt Roush: Yep, bringing down the house. Take that, Angel!
Sarah Michelle Gellar: Yeah! (laughs) And that's why we're still here now.
(PaleyFest, 3-08)Sarah Michelle Gellar: (on the Buffybot) But I think, again, it's what keeps it fresh. You're playing a character for so long, and you don't want to get lazy. You find yourself relying on certain things, so by taking away all the other parts of Buffy, I did have to find exactly the essence of her again, and... you know, it was fun to be his slave for a little bit... (gesturing towards James)
James Marsters: I'm a good master for a little while...
(PaleyFest, 3-08)And the muchly iconized and bannerized "flirting" photo comes from this exchange: Sarah says "My favourite movie... Is it okay to say
Southpark: Bigger, Longer, Uncut?", the audience cheers and claps, James claps along and playfully asks her "Would you give us a soooong?" and Sarah kind of bats her eyelashes at him and goes "...no." Heeeeeeee.