Re: smg and ah

["chlnlkavln" <chlnlkavln@xxxxxxxxx>]

sorry for depressing you...it just seemed that from interviews and 
stuff, neither seemed too happy w/ the other...the way ah and nb 
found out bout the show ending in a magazine...fpj saying that the 
cast and crew "owed" smg b/c she gave essentially gave them 
jobs...smg not showing at her own wrap party...even i, as a fairly 
new buffy watcher, noticed the differences in the chemistry of b and 
w in diff seasons...i just wanted to know if i missed 
something...thanx for the reply

--- In buffywantswillow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, danspector@w... wrote:
> I don't have any facts, but it definitely seems like things have 
died
> between them since Season 4. The days when Sarah would hold up a 
sign
> on "Saturday Night Live" saying "I love you, Aly! 'Willow' rules!" 
are,
> I'm afraid, long gone.
> 
> Don't have a clue what might have caused it (the massive 
rearranging of
> the filming schedule in S5 so SMG could shoot "Scooby-Doo"
> simultaneously? Aly not cooperating with the musical while Sarah 
spent
> months learning how to sing? Was SMG jealous of the success of
> "American Pie"? Did AH demand too much money during the contract
> negotiations after S5?), and I'd really like to know. Because I 
think
> large portion of the Buffy/Willow subtext was the Sarah/Aly 
friendship
> (all those unscripted hand-holdings and arm-linkages of the early
> seasons) and I think the lack of it of late has hurt the on-screen 
B/W
> chemistry (and thus, I would argue, the entire show).
> 
> Damn, now I'm depressed. Off to watch tonight's ep, for as long 
as I
> can stand to :(
> 
> Dan