Marti Noxon had the following to say about the end of season six:
“It was the first season climax that Joss did not write and direct. There were some production problems. I was massively pregnant at that point and a little slow on my feet, so it wasn’t as easy-going …

Marti Noxon said about the episode Dead Things:
“It got so dark and so intense, and even darker still when Buffy beats the hell out of Spike. Some people had a real hard time with that, and I understand where they’re coming from. We just went to a real dark place, …

Marti Noxon said the following about the episode Doublemeat Palace:
“One of the craziest episodes we’ve ever done. It’s just insane. And the monster looks like a penis - we know that! Talk about the academic papers that are going to be written about that one! The castration fantasy made large. …

Marti Noxon said about the episode Gone:
“The bit when Spike seems to be by himself when, in fact, he was having sex with the invisible Buffy was something that Joss and David Fury got all excited about, whereas I was like ‘Ewww!’ It was disturbing to me; it still …

Marti Noxon had the following to say about the episode Smashed:
“This was the beginning of the most divisive story we’ve ever had, which was Buffy and Spike boning. Really, I’ve never seen such a strong reaction on both sides. People either love it or hate it. To this day, people …

Marti Noxon said about the episode Tabula Rasa:
“One criticism we received about the episode was the fact that Giles left even after knowing what Buffy had been through. We tried to make it clear that he began to believe that she couldn’t take responsibility with him there; we really tried …

Marti Noxon said of the episode All the Way:
“That one was interesting, but there were two things wrong with it. The romance between Dawn and the vampire never took off. We’d hoped it would be bittersweet, but they didn’t quite make the connection. So in some ways it wasn’t quite …

Marti Noxon said about the episode Flooded:
“It’s not that exciting to watch Buffy deal with bills. The show is not called ‘Buffy The Debt Collector’ or ‘Buffy The Credit Card User’. So I guess we started toying with adult responsibilities and then decided we’d have to go the way of …

Marti Noxon, who wrote and directed the episode Into the Woods, in which Riley leaves Buffy, said about Riley’s departure:
“Sunnydale romance just rarely goes well. Buffy with a boyfriend is not as interesting as Buffy in some kind of romantic strife. Riley, by his nature, was such a good …

Writers/producers Marti Noxon and David Fury both had cameos in the musical episode Once More, With Feeling. Marti played the woman arguing over a parking ticket and Fury was the man singing about his dry cleaning - “They got the mustard out!”. David Fury actually started his career in musical …

Amber Benson on filming Tara’s death scene:
“They had trouble because the fake blood was so thin. It didn’t have body to it; it was just water. It would hit Willow’s shirt, and the shirt would just suck the whole thing up. It would be like a big stain. So they …

Amber Benson on her on-set activities during Hell’s Bells:
“I’m the biggest klutz on the set. Remember Emma in that wedding dress? I got that dress off of her at least four times, because I’d be following her and I’d step on the dress and she’d be pulling it back up. …

The episode Wrecked was dedicated “In Loving Memory Of J.D. Peralta”. She was Marti Noxon’s assistant, who died of cancer in November 2001 (the month in which the episode aired). She was only 30. J.D. played ‘Woman in Bar’ in Amber Benson’s movie Chance. In an interview, Amber Benson revealed …

Doug Petrie initially called the Knights of Byzantium ‘The Order of the Cruciform Sword’. Marti Noxon jokingly turned the name into the ‘Order of the Cruciform Ducks’, then the ‘Crucified Ducks’. This became the writers’ name for the Knights from then on. They had to be renamed as the writers …

Marti Noxon, a native Californian, has been writing for Buffy since season two. She was made a co-producer for season three, and later a co- executive producer. She was also a consulting producer on the spin-off Angel. Marti became known for her ability to write emotional and sad scenes: she …