Yeah I thought that was a bit confusing because in the infamous convention clip Charisma is talking along the lines of feeling so betrayed at being tricked into coming back for Cordelia to die, only hearing the script idea convinced her otherwise because ‘Joss is good’, but then in her interview for this book she talks about that in regards to David Fury. (It didn’t sound like she had any contact with Joss at all on the set of season 5 actually, other than the flowers and the thank you note in her trailer.) Which makes sense because the script was written and directed by David Fury, and I believe he was actually the one who had the idea to bring Cordelia back for the 100th episode after plans with Sarah fell through, so that seems like one thing the fans blame Joss for (bringing Cordelia back to kill her off without being upfront with Charisma about it) that he really didn’t have anything to do with
Joss never did write all that much for Ats Cordelia actually looking back... In Waiting In The Wings she was written as shallow and bored during the opera, and then spend most of the episode possessed, in his season 4 episode she’s regressed to her high school self, and his season 2 episode was mostly a showcase for Angel and Lorne, so it seems like he was never particularly interested in writing for the more mature Cordelia on Ats for whatever reason
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Date: 2017-11-27 04:39 pm (UTC)Joss never did write all that much for Ats Cordelia actually looking back... In Waiting In The Wings she was written as shallow and bored during the opera, and then spend most of the episode possessed, in his season 4 episode she’s regressed to her high school self, and his season 2 episode was mostly a showcase for Angel and Lorne, so it seems like he was never particularly interested in writing for the more mature Cordelia on Ats for whatever reason