I thought, its time she had a chance to take back the night.
She was 5ft 2 of potent right-to-be-there, and God, did we want her power.
that when she was temporarily divested of her strength in season threesHelpless, the loss was keenly felt.
Buffys vulnerability was our vulnerability, and wed been shown far too much of that on screen already.
A young teenage girl, alone in her house at night, hears a disturbance.
Unlike Buffy Summers, she doesnt have a Scooby gang (not in episode one at any rate).
Its not only the nurses pamphlet stuff that finds expression inWolfblood.
Maddys message in episode one is that her difference is entirely natural, and no cause for shame.
The script is well-written, the characters immediately likeable, and the messages, when probed, are sound.
Wolfbloods thirteen-part first series is currently being repeated on Tuesdays at 7pm on BBC Three.
The first two episodes are available on BBC iPlayer until Tuesday the 30thof July.
Series two has already been filmed, and will likely find its way to CBBC this autumn.