Within the interview, Whedon explains that seeing “Nosferatu” (a personality that The Gents resemble) scared him as a baby. “I simply have all the time been afraid of bald, smiling males who float! They only creep me out.” That is truthful. There’s nothing worse than seeing a smile from somebody who’s about to homicide you.

Whedon is, after all, recognized for writing quippy, fast dialogue, from his TV work in “Buffy,” “Angel,” and “Firefly,” to the movie “The Avengers.” You recognize what you are getting if somebody’s dialogue known as “Whedonesque.” This episode was a giant departure for him by way of what we noticed (and did not hear). Whedon spoke about what drove him to do an episode that did not depend on dialogue. He mentioned:

“And the inspiration for the episode … a part of it got here from my feeling that I had began to fall right into a hackdom, if you’ll. I might been directing for 3 years, I might directed, like, 10 Buffys, and I used to be kind of falling into a really predictable visible sample, which is what TV largely does. It is radio with faces. I believed if I had no dialogue, I might be pressured to inform the story visually.”

Whedon mentioned he was fearful he would not be capable of convey the worry visually and that although it was troublesome, it was “essentially the most enjoyable conceivable.” Oh, he received the worry throughout, alright. I do know that once I watched it initially, all I needed to do was speak to the particular person I used to be watching with, simply to fill the silence. Even all these years later (the episode aired on the finish of 1999), I normally skip this episode in my re-watches. It isn’t that it is something lower than good. It is that I do not need night time terrors.