Trivia / Buffy The Vampire Slayer S 6 E 6 All The Way

• The Cast Showoff: Emma Caulfield told a group of fans at the Starfury Fusion Event (Blackpool, England, 2004) about her experience filming the episode:
  I actually roller blade, well I haven’t in a while, I used to roller blade all the time and I was an avid skater when I was a kid. I’m sure they were all terrified because I just sort of went around between takes and I was constantly spinning around and doing stuff. And I actually managed to not knock anything over, which was great, but it was fun. I wasn’t too keen on the shorts, I wasn’t working out then.
• Creator Backlash: Marti Noxon said of the episode:
  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 as resonant as we’d hoped it would be. And the other thing is that Joss felt that we should have shored up Dawn's character more at the beginning. If we'd been into Dawn’s space in the beginning, then the rest of it might have played better. I tend to agree. We sort of boned that one a little bit. What I did like about it was that it was sort of old school Buffy. You go out with these guys and, guess what? They’re vampires. Not very complicated in the metaphor, but very dead on. So I liked the simplicity of it. It we'd only made a few adjustments, it would have been better.
• Reality Subtext: Whilst the episode was being filmed, the cast were simultaneously learning and recording their musical numbers for "Once More, With Feeling", so the scenes of the exhausted Scoobies in the Magic Box are pretty realistic.

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