25. Joss Whedon didn't intend for there to be lesbian subtext between Buffy and Faith, and was initially irritated when fans raised the subject on message boards. "I was like 'You guys see lesbian subtext behind every corner, you just want to see girls kissing – get over it," he recalled during an NPR interview. After a fan directed Whedon to their website where they had dissected Buffy and Faith's interactions, Whedon realised that he had been wrong and apologised. "Everything they said was true, it was all right there, and this is where I coined the phrase BYO Subtext."
26. Season six's villainous Nerd Trio was initially meant to consist of Warren (Adam Busch), Jonathan (Danny Strong) and Tucker Wells (Brad Kane), who had previously been seen setting a pack of hellhounds loose on the graduating class in season three's 'The Prom'. When that plan fell through, Tucker was replaced with his younger brother Andrew (Tom Lenk).
27. In the hiatus between season six and season seven, Nicholas Brendon and Sarah Michelle Gellar pitched the idea of a Xander/Buffy romance to Joss Whedon, who felt that the relationship needed to remain unrequited.
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