Trivia / Buffy the Vampire Slayer S5E20 "Spiral"

• Completely Different Title:
  • German: "Auf der Flucht" (On the Run)
  • Hungarian: "Vissza az Elejére" (Back to the Front)
  • Italian: "Spirale di Violenza" (Spiral of Violence)
  • Spanish (Latin America): "Odisea" (Odyssey)
• What Could Have Been: According to Steve DeKnight
  In the first draft of the outline for [the "Spiral"] script, the opening action scene where Buffy is trying to escape from Glory with Dawn, was massive. It was a ten minute long escape scene. Buffy gets smacked into a tree a hundred feet away, she ends up beating Glory with a sheared off lamp pole, there was big, big action. Joss [Whedon] read it and said "This is great, this is wonderful, Kubrick couldn't film this in twenty days with five million dollars, so cut everything". I'm like "Great, okay, that's fine, as long as I get the Knights chasing the Winnebago".

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