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   The 'Buffy' finale turns 15: Here's why Eliza Dushku doesn't think   
   'inspirational' show is coming back   
      
   Ethan Alter   
   Senior Writer, Yahoo Entertainment   
      
      
   During her seven-season career as TV’s top vampire slayer, Buffy Summers   
   saved the world. A lot. And this weekend marks the 15th anniversary of her   
   final victory. On May 20, 2003, Joss Whedon’s groundbreaking supernatural   
   teen soap opera, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, aired its series finale,   
    “Chosen,” in which Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) fought the forces of evil   
   and closed the Sunnydale-adjacent Hellmouth once and for all. As the writer   
   and director of the last episode, Whedon ensured that his heroine’s last bit   
   of world-saving exacted a high price (RIP, Anya), while also allowing her to   
   glimpse a brighter future ahead.   
      
   According to Eliza Dushku — who fought alongside Buffy in “Chosen” as   
   Faith,   
   a fan-favorite Slayer — that brighter future probably won’t include a trip   
   back to the airwaves anytime soon. Rumors about the show’s return have   
   picked up steam in the wake of successful TV revivals like Roseanne and The   
   X-Files, but Whedon has avoided tipping his hand about if and when Buffy   
   might come back in live-action form. (For the record, Dark Horse has been   
   publishing an ongoing canonical comic-book continuation of the show since   
   2007.)   
      
   “I hear other cast members talk about it,” Dushku admits to Yahoo   
   Entertainment. “Everyone would have a blast, and yet everyone feels if it   
   weren’t Joss at the helm, it wouldn’t work. The reality is it’s probably   
   not   
   going to happen. But we can all wish!”   
      
   (Watch our video interview with Dushku above.)          [obviously, click on   
   the above link to watch it]   
      
   Although she wasn’t a founding member of Buffy’s signature Scooby Gang,   
   whose early ranks included Willow, Xander, and her Watcher, Giles, Faith   
   made an immediate impression when she blew into Sunnydale in the Season 3   
   episode “Faith, Hope, and Trick.” (The 20th anniversary of that episode is   
   this October.) Dushku — who got her start as a child star appearing in films   
   such as This Boy’s Life and True Lies — was 17 when she originally   
   auditioned for the role and remembers feeling an instant kinship with the   
   darker, edgier Slayer. “It was a little bit of art imitating life or life   
   imitating art,” she confesses with a laugh. “I was a little bit of a   
   kamikaze case!”   
      
   Like Dushku, Buffy fans lived vicariously through Faith’s kamikaze approach   
   to slaying vamps and living life. “To this day, I have fans come up to me   
   and talk about how she made them feel like an empowered woman. Faith gave   
   them so much confidence and strength, and they confronted things that had   
   previously terrified them.” The character also provided a case study in how   
   a person that society at large wrote off as “bad” because of her attitude   
   (and fashion choices) can step up to be a hero. “A lot of people found her   
   very human — we’re not black and white; there’s gray area in between,”   
   Dushku explains. “You can do bad things and still be a good person.”   
      
   Faith certainly steps up big time in the series finale. “Chosen” finds her   
   serving as one of Buffy’s lieutenants in the climactic battle, helping to   
   oversee an army of newly empowered “Slayerettes” — young women whose   
   Slayer   
   abilities are activated early via a magical assist from Willow. Dushku   
   remembers crying when she reached the part of the “Chosen” script where   
   ordinary girls around the world suddenly find themselves gifted with great   
   power. “I loved that the show ended with Buffy making every woman a   
   Slayer,”   
   she says now. “I loved seeing all these young women just fighting. It can be   
   a fight to be a young woman; it can be a fight to be a young man. It was a   
   beautiful thing. And raw and violent just like it is in real life.”   
      
   The series finale ends with a small band of survivors — including Buffy and   
   Faith — living to fight another day, zooming out of Sunnydale in a school   
   bus as the town sinks into the Hellmouth. Asked where she personally thinks   
   Faith is today, Dushku just smiles. “I bet she’s had a frigging journey!   
   She   
   could have gone in a lot of different directions. I like to think that she’s   
   helping people not repeat the same mistakes she made.” Faith may even have   
   found love along the way; the final moments of “Chosen” tease that her   
   fling   
   with Sunnydale High principal/demon slayer Robin Wood might lead to   
   something more permanent. “I thought they were a pretty sweet match,”   
   Dushku   
   says. “It’s either that or the fans [thought] Buffy and Faith ended up   
   running off together. One or the other, whatever floats your boat.”   
      
   David   
      
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