Re: Joss's new gig and other thoughts (formerly 'Yahoo! News Story - Gellar Won't Appear in 'Angel' Finale')

["ebailey140" <ebailey140@xxxxxxx>]

--- In buffywantswillow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Jim Means" <JIMMEANS@p...> 
wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "ebailey140" <ebailey140@a...>
> To: <buffywantswillow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2004 1:13 AM
> Subject: ~Buffy*Wants*Willow~ Re: Joss's new gig and other thoughts
> (formerly 'Yahoo! News Story - Gellar Won't Appear in 'Angel' 
Finale')
> Looking at what has just befallen the spinoff, if it was Sarah's
> decision to end BtVS, she made the right one.  Better to go out on
> your own terms than to have the network ax you.
>
> Seven years is a long time on any project, and long enough for a TV
> series.  There's a reason they stopped all the Star Trek series
> after seven seasons.  I would have hated for BtVS to go the way of
> other great shows like MASH in sticking around years after it was
> time to wrap it.  ASH had already reduced himself to a part time
> schedule, and I'm sure Sarah and Aly wanted to do different things
> and have more free time for a while.  Sometimes you just need a
> break.
>
> Of course, it's entirely possible that Sarah will tire of Freddie,
> and win her one true love from that Wesley guy...  Oh, wait...  :)
>
> E
>
>
> I'm inclined to agree with you on the matter of Sarah's decision 
to leave
> the show.  Not only had the show run its course, IMO, but from 
what I
> understand both Sarah and James Marsters were rather opposed to 
the whole
> Buffy/Spike subplot.  At least from what I read in various 
interviews that's
> the impression I got.

Oh, they were both for having a romance.  Sarah supposedly had some 
issues with certain aspects of it.  Understandable.
> What worries me regarding SMH is her decisions outside of Buffy.  
I don't
> care how many millions 'Scooby Doo' made, that film and its sequel 
will drag
> her credibility down something serious in the future.  She went 
from playing
> Buffy to playing Daphne, which is essentially Buffy Lite.  I mean, 
they both
> fight monsters and end up involved with soulless blondes, right?  
Plus, her
> next movie, I understand, is going to be a remake of a Japanese 
horror
> classic, in the manner of The Ring.  My concern is that SMG is in 
danger of
> typecasting.  She's all grown up now; she needs to get out of the 
horror and
> teen genres and quickly!  But I don't see her getting the chance 
to do that;
> her most recent non-genre effort, Harvard Man, went directly to 
video.
> Never a good sign.

Well, she's thrown different things in there, like romantic 
comedies, and Cruel Intentions was as far from Buffy as you can 
get.  I'd guess both Sarah and Aly are taking the Nic Cage approach 
to picking movies:  Mix surefire hits with less commercial fare.
> Aly is proving her chops in comedy, however(she was the one bright 
spot in
> American Wedding, IMO), and is currently gearing up for a sitcom 
pilot for
> NBC.  I'd like to see SMG make a similar move in her career.  
Leave the
> vampires and monsters behind for a while, get into some gritty 
crime drama
> or decent romance.  Hell, have the Cohen Brothers write a dark 
comedy for
> her.  They did wonders for George Clooney!

Yep, she'd be perfect for a Cohn Brothers film.  Clooney and Johnny 
Depp have both proven one can break out of a TV role.  

E



Willow: "It's a good fight, Buffy, and I want in."
Buffy:  "I kinda love you."
                     'Choices'

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