Trivia / Buffy the Vampire Slayer S6E13 "Dead Things"

• Completely Different Title:
  • Finnish: "Orjatar" (Slave Girl)
  • French: "Esclave des sens" (Slave to the Senses)
  • German: "Manipulationen" (Manipulations)
  • Italian: "La sfera magica" (The Magic Sphere)
  • Japanese: "死人たち" (Dead People)
  • Polish: "W niewoli zmysłów" (In Captivity to Senses)
  • Portuguese (Brazil): "Seres Mortos" (Dead Beings)
• Creator Backlash: Sarah Michelle Gellar disliked the way Buffy was treated in this episode, telling Entertainment Weekly:
  I had trouble with the one where Buffy had sex with Spike on the balcony while watching their friends. I really thought that was out of character. And I didn't like what it stood for. That was the moment that I had the most problems with.
• Creator's Favorite Episode: This is Steven E. DeKnight's personal favorite episode, because "it had humor at the beginning and then it had that great twist where [the nerds] accidentally killed Katrina and then it got dark, dark, dark, dark. We really wanted to highlight how unhappy Buffy was with herself and really show why she was mistreating Spike because she hated herself."
• Deleted Scene:
  • In the scene in which Buffy reveals to Tara that she has been sleeping with Spike, Buffy was scripted to lament how hard it is to lie to everyone about who she's sleeping with, and Tara responded, "Sweetie, I'm a fag. I've been there." Dailies reveal that the lines were filmed but cut in editing.
  • This line was cut due to length:
  Xander: According to this, they place the time of Katrina's death almost a full day before you saw her in the woods.

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