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Adam Cadre, interactive fiction
author and all-around creative guy, on why Buffy is
outstanding.

For this, after all, is the payoff! It’s these sorts of arcs that make
all the dues-paying worthwhile, where you can have the Chosen One and
the recovering black-eyed uberwitch and the repentant vampire and the
sentient ball of energy and the dweeby wannabe evil genius and the
teleporting vengeance demon wandering around without needing a scorecard
to keep track of the players. Where you can cut to a doorframe and get a
“wow” by showing any of twenty different returnees standing in it.