Trivia
Winnebago Warrior: The Scoobies make their escape in that most American of vehicles, a Winnebago or RV (Recreational Vehicle). These monster caravans let US campers enjoy the great outdoors without ever leaving behind the comforts of home. Talk about taking everything and the kitchen sink with you.
Ahoy, Finale Ahead: With only two episodes to go before the finale, a couple of other season endings are referenced by Buffy.
"We're not going to win this with stakes or spells or pulling out some uranium power core," she says to Giles, listing the final solutions to the threats of seasons one, two and four, as seen in Prophecy Girl, Becoming Part 2 and Primeval.
Big Ambitions: In his interview for the Cult website, Spiral writer Steven DeKnight revealed that he originally intended the action packed opening scene to be even bigger budget.
"As a matter of fact, in the first draft of the outline for that 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 read it and said "This is great, this is wonderful, Kubrick couldn’t film this in 20 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".
Find out more in our Interview with Steven.
Geneva Convention: Xander's appeal to the rules of war convinces the Knights of Byzantium to let someone in to treat Giles. That, and a little judicious hostage threatening and blackmail.
Loony Tunes: Anya favours the Bugs Bunny method of dealing with Glory: "We should drop a piano on her. Well, it always works for that creepy cartoon rabbit when he's running from that nice man with the speech impediment."
Wild, Wild, West: The scene where the Knights of Byzantium attack the Scoobies in the Winnebago is reportedly the Buffy production team's homage to classic Western film Stagecoach. With Joss Whedon's new Firefly series having a decidedly Western feel about it too, do you think he's just a good old-fashioned cowboy at heart?
The Full Monty?: What with the Holy Grail-esque knights and Anya's offer to cook spam, is there a whole Monty Python subtext going on here? No sign of any dead parrots, though...
