OT-Word from Joss

["Patrick Sanders" <rsand21266@xxxxxxxxx>]

"The Angel/Cordelia [love story] had gone pretty much as far as 
we wanted to take it. Their romance was definitely not a popular 
move on our part, and I think with most fans. It just seemed like it 
was time because we were revamping the show, and then 
paring it down... it just seemed like a good time for certain 
people to move on. Not completely, obviously. I'm hoping that 
we'll get Charisma to do some episodes as Cordelia sometime 
during the year. She's a new mother, so, like Sarah Michelle 
Gellar I'm waiting to hear what her schedule is like. But it just 
seemed creatively like... I once said that I finally got to tell the 
story of Buffy that I tried to tell in the movie, and I did it with 
Cordelia. Which was the story of someone who was completely 
ditzy and self-involved becoming kind of heroic. But the way the 
series was different from the movie was that I didn't know where 
you go from there. So, I felt like we spent seven years playing that 
very arc, and it had played. Like Buffy itself, it's time to look at 
something new"

Well, I find it damned amusing that Joss "finally told the story he 
wanted to tell" a) using a secondary character, 2) using two 
series and c) doing it completely by accident. Now if there was 
any doubt in anybody's mind that the dude doesn't know what the 
hell he's doing anymore...

Hmm, Angel/Cordy wasn't popular with the fans. (Why Spuffy 
was...that is a question up there with how many cherubs can 
dance on the head of pin) Now is it just me, or does anybody 
else think Angel/Fred could work? She's easily the most lovable 
character in the Angelverse. 

I'll go away now,

Patrick

"Will&are you asleep?" I heard the soft sound of her voice 
behind me. She was finished already.

I take a breath to compose myself. "I can't sleep." I say in shaky 
voice.

"Why?" She asked concerned.

"Because& I miss the sound of your heartbeat too much." I let 
out with a small whimper.