As you may know, Glee has added six new writers to their team for season 3, and one of them just happens to be Buffy the Vampire Slayer executive producer Marti Noxon. In a recent interview, Noxon discusses how she came to be on the Glee writing team and which character she is most excited to write for.

TV Guide reports:

How did you come to join the writing staff of Glee?
Marti Noxon: I had worked for Fox a lot back in the day, and actually [20th Century Fox Chairman] Dana Walden, who I like to call co-president of awesomeness, it was her idea. She suggested it to Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan and they were really great about it.

Did she tell you they needed more people?
Noxon: I think what she felt was that Ryan and Brad have a new show going on FX, American Horror Story, and it’s pretty well-known that they, together with Ian, write everything. That’s a lot. It’s not like other shows. I worked on Mad Men and [creator-executive producer] Matthew Weiner puts his mark on every single script and rewrites them all, but they’re only doing 13 episodes. On Glee, they’re doing 24 or something! It’s crazy. They realized they could use some help.

I’m on as a consultant, which means I’m part-time, but they also hired a great writing staff, people I’m really excited about and am currently getting to know.

How much of the show have you seen? Were you a fan?
Noxon: Absolutely. I was more of a first-season person, only because I didn’t get a chance to watch Season 2; I got super-busy. But I know that Season 1 I really dug. Some of the story lines were so out there, but I totally love that! I was just like, “This is just off the hook! It’s bananas.” We’re having a lot of fun thinking about next season.

The thing I did get to see recently was Glee: The 3D Concert Movie. It’s so good. It’s really charming and inspiring and they make some really smart choices, I can’t wait for people to see it. And I can take my daughter to see it. She’s 6-and-a-half, so I can’t always let her watch the show! “Mommy, why is everybody kissing everybody?” Although she does have lesbian grandmas so she’s ready for Glee.

Are there any characters you’re excited to help write stories for?
Noxon: It’s weird; everyone’s a Brittany (Heather Morris) fan. The number Heather has in the Glee movie is just stupefying. She manages to be both incredibly wholesome and one of the sexiest people you’ve ever seen, which is an amazing thing to pull off. I would love to write some Brittany stuff. I wouldn’t mind getting into the whole Santana-Brittany thing, especially because of Willow and Tara on Buffy.

How so?
Noxon: It stems from one of the things we had talked about doing with them on Buffy that we never did. It’s so politically incorrect to make a character gay and then make them “un-gay” again. Like once you become gay, you’ve crossed over, or, you’re not allowed to be a person who doesn’t want to be defined by a label like that. You’re not allowed to be a person who says, “I just love that person right now, and maybe I’ll love something else at some point, so I don’t really want to say if I’m gay or bi or straight or anything else. I just love this person.” I feel like that’s where Brittany is. Without overthinking it, she’s very evolved.

Have you talked to any of the executive producers about exploring that further?
Noxon: Yeah, it’s a big area of discussion right now. “What is Brittany? What’s Santana (Naya Rivera)?” But I also think they did a lot of stuff last season about Kurt (Chris Colfer), and there’s a lot that’s been said on the topic of coming out, so I think theirs may be a slow-burn story.

You can read more of the interview here.

Are you excited for Noxon’s writing input in Season 3? If you’re a Buffy fan who loved the Willow/Tara relationship, do you think that Noxon will give the Brittana relationship justice? We certainly hope so!