Re: SPOILER: "Angel" vs. "Buffy"

[Tater <tater@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 11:48 PM 5/24/02 -0700, you wrote:
>No, not quite. There was a miscommunication between ME and Lindsay
>Crouse's agents, and ME thought they could only use her for 10 episodes
>and hurriedly changed their plans. Originally, Adam was supposed to be
>an innocent, Maggie's helpless slave.
>
>Besides, the arc made a lot more sense thematically as originally laid
>out (Buffy abandons her friends for the new thing
>[Riley/Maggie/Initiative] and then has to reconnect with them to defeat
>Maggie and her troops) than as it came out (Buffy joins the Initiative
>for half an ep, and has to fight some monster with no personal
>connection to her at all). 
>
>It took 90 minutes of wandering the web, but I finally found one of the
>articles I'd previously seen on this subject, with David Fury saying for
>publication that they had to adjust the arc. (Would that I had a hard
>drive, so I could save all this stuff at my fingertips...) Here's the
>link;
>
>http://www.post-gazette.com/tv/20000725owen.asp
>
>Dan
>
>(Regarding Spike, Riley was going to stay, until they couldn't re-sign
>Blucas. Spuffy was not on the board when they signed JM for Seasons
>4-5. They spent three years on "Bad boys can't work; Buffy needs a
>normal guy", so it wouldn't have made much sense to immediately run out
>and grab the other vamp for Buffy to pair up with. Spike was there to
>replace Cordelia [caustic humor, truth-telling], not Angel.)


Okay, I'll buy that. What I've seen is an interview with Lindsay Crouse
saying that she thought she was going to be in the rest of the season until
she suddenly got written out. If it was her agents who goofed, she wouldn't
have known what happened until after the fact. 

And I don't miss Riley in the slightest, he was still worse than Spuffy.
Boring is sure death to a TV series.

What I don't get is why they can't leave Buffy single. If they can't find a
guy that works for her, leaving aside Buffy/Willow as a pairing, why have
her with anyone at all? Real women can exist without a boyfriend. Or a
girlfriend. Better no one than the wrong one.


tater (Vegetables of the world unite!)