After Action Report: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (July 11, 2025)

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Long Live the Confederation!
Greetings WingNuts,

The Wing Commander movie club has traveled to distant galaxies and lived through some of the most deadly warfare in human history… and now we can add surviving high school in Los Angeles to our list of accomplishments! Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a movie that never quite comes together: it's endlessly promising a slightly better film that you sincerely wish you were watching. It's perfectly pleasant and certainly plenty of fun… but you come away wondering why there wasn't just a little more there.

As previously noted, the Wing Commander connection is slight: the original introductory story for Privateer included a character named Jake Rubio, a sketchy privateer who attempts to take advantage of the player when he is just starting out as an independent operator. Rubio's appearance was to be based on actor Paul Reubens' appearance in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Reubens plays vampire henchman Amilyn and he makes quite an impression!










Sully did not like the part where Lothos ate a kitten. Sully wants to eat a kitten!

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Original update published on July 11, 2025
 
The movie got heavily edited from Joss Whedon's original script to make it more comedic. When it came to the TV series, that script would be used as Buffy's backstory as to why she moved to Sunnydale in the first place.
 
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