Fans payed up to $1,000 per ticket on ebay for the pleasure of mingling with the cast of Buffy The Vampire Slayer for Paley Fest 2008 last weekend.

In attendance were Joss Whedon (Creator/Executive Producer), Sarah Michelle Gellar ("Buffy Summers"), Nicholas Brendon ("Xander Harris"), James Marsters ("Spike"), Marti Noxon (Executive Producer), Emma Caulfield ("Anya"), Michelle Trachtenberg ("Dawn Summers"), Charisma Carpenter ("Cordelia Chase"), Amber Benson ("Tara Maclay"), Seth Green ("Oz") and David Greenwalt (Co-Executive Producer).

Following a screening the popular musical episode, "Once More, with Feeling," the panel described the terror they felt prior to its filming. 

"This was total terror!" Marsters pointed at Whedon and recalled, "You wouldn't let anybody off the hook, and the thing is, none of us signed up to be singers in front of millions of people."

Trachtenberg recalled that she was so "petrified" of having to sing in "Once More, with Feeling" that she got a throat infection.

Sarah Michelle Gellar, however, described "Hush" as the most difficult episode. "I think it was one of those moments were I thought, 'Oh this is great! A whole episode with no lines!' I was like, 'This is a breeze!' And boy was I wrong."

Whedon agreed that "Hush" was the most difficult to write and direct, because there was no way of conveying timing, "There was no rhythm, there was no cues, so everyone would do everything all at once."

Gellar, who played Buffy, says wishes she had her as a role model when she was younger: "A woman who showed you that you don't have to be the smartest and you don't have to be the most beautiful, but you can protect your family and the people that you love and you can be a powerful woman."

Season 6, says Gellar, was hard on everyone, as no one wanted to see Buffy change and suffer so much.  Executive producer, Marti Noxon, said they had always intended Season 6 to be "the time after high school when you kind of lose yourself."

As the panel was asked about motivations, plot decisions, romantic hook-ups and off-screen antics, an affectionate nostalgia set in.

Then came the Big Question: Might Whedon and the cast ever reunite for a new Buffy project, whatever form it might take?

Said Whedon, "There's so many stars that would have to align, but there's a reason I worked with all of these people for so long. They're awfully talented. Clearly, from the comic book, it's a story that I can't let go. I think it would be really cool."

The Paley Centre will be releasing full official footage soon.