Yay! I was hoping someone on my flist would read this book and let me know if it had any worthwhile tidbits of information. I've never heard that about Charisma's anxiety before, so that was interesting. I'd also never heard the details of Greenwalt's departure; honestly, it doesn't reflect great on Joss that he wouldn't take the time to go to bat for someone who was so instrumental in creating and running Angel.
They would get very frustrated when she would change her hairstyle in the middle of an episode, or when she got a bunch of tattoos including a cross on her wrist that they had to keep covering up because it was a vampire show. And with her pregnancy it was felt that again it wasn’t timed well to help with production and for them to write around it, she just walked in and said by the way I’m pregnant right at the beginning of the season.
Ugh. At the beginning of this paragraph, I'm on the side of the producers, and by the end of it I'm on Charisma's side. I can see how tattoos and haircuts could add time and money to the production and how frustrating it must have been if she did things like that carelessly, without thinking through the ramifications. But...pregnancies happen, and sometimes they can't be timed out to the perfect moment. Given that they didn't really want to tackle another pregnancy plot right after Darla's, they could have chosen to either hide it for as long as possible and then write her out of the last half of the season (maybe Cordelia could have been offered an acting role out of town, or something), or they could have chosen to incorporate her pregnancy in a way that didn't turn the character into a villain.
David Fury says that absolutely the only spin-off that was ever discussed was one with Faith.
I always got the feeling that the network was interested in the Slayer School spin-off idea, but I don't know if the producers/writers were ever really behind it. A Faith spin-off could maybe have worked (and would probably have been better than Tru Calling), but I wouldn't have wanted to see Spike on it ('cause I'm a petty shipper).
Christian Kane seemed oddly obsessed with not wanting to be ‘beat up by chicks’, saying that’s why he originally wanted to leave the show. He was also very upset that Lindsay was killed ‘by a flunky’,
UGHH.
Anything about Sarah's Type A professionalism just makes me like her more, tbh.
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They would get very frustrated when she would change her hairstyle in the middle of an episode, or when she got a bunch of tattoos including a cross on her wrist that they had to keep covering up because it was a vampire show. And with her pregnancy it was felt that again it wasn’t timed well to help with production and for them to write around it, she just walked in and said by the way I’m pregnant right at the beginning of the season.
Ugh. At the beginning of this paragraph, I'm on the side of the producers, and by the end of it I'm on Charisma's side. I can see how tattoos and haircuts could add time and money to the production and how frustrating it must have been if she did things like that carelessly, without thinking through the ramifications. But...pregnancies happen, and sometimes they can't be timed out to the perfect moment. Given that they didn't really want to tackle another pregnancy plot right after Darla's, they could have chosen to either hide it for as long as possible and then write her out of the last half of the season (maybe Cordelia could have been offered an acting role out of town, or something), or they could have chosen to incorporate her pregnancy in a way that didn't turn the character into a villain.
David Fury says that absolutely the only spin-off that was ever discussed was one with Faith.
I always got the feeling that the network was interested in the Slayer School spin-off idea, but I don't know if the producers/writers were ever really behind it. A Faith spin-off could maybe have worked (and would probably have been better than Tru Calling), but I wouldn't have wanted to see Spike on it ('cause I'm a petty shipper).
Christian Kane seemed oddly obsessed with not wanting to be ‘beat up by chicks’, saying that’s why he originally wanted to leave the show. He was also very upset that Lindsay was killed ‘by a flunky’,
UGHH.
Anything about Sarah's Type A professionalism just makes me like her more, tbh.
Thanks for this write-up!