There was a lot more gossip about what was going on behind the scenes with Ats and the writers actually, I mostly just focused on the Bts gossip though! It sounded like Joss wasn’t even aware of what was going on with Fox and David Greenwalt, that he was just so wrapped up in Firefly that he wasn’t answering calls, and then DG said that by the time that Joss did get involved and try and do something it was too late for him by then
And yep, I can see why changing your hairstyle without advance notice would be a big deal in tv terms, I remember that the WB were practically forbidding leading actresses to cut their hair after what happened with Felicity lol. I always understand it as Charisma literally cut her hair in the middle of a season 2 episode, just showing up with short hair on the day without telling anyone, and so that totally threw the continuity of scenes. Charisma herself talks about her pregnancy being seen as the last straw, so I guess that her already being seen as having a pattern of not considering production needs more all had an effect on how mad everyone got with her as well. It was a sad way to end things though
they could have chosen to incorporate her pregnancy in a way that didn't turn the character into a villain.
Definitely, I guess the issue was that they always originally intended for Cordelia to be the main season 4 villain, and so weren’t prepared to change that? I know that Joss was excited about her character having a big throw down with Angel and the pregnancy and Jasmine was their compromise on that. Honestly they should have just come up with a whole different arc once they knew that Charisma was going to be heavily pregnant in the back half of the season, she deserved to have at least 5 or 6 episodes off for maternity leave.
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Date: 2017-11-28 08:06 pm (UTC)And yep, I can see why changing your hairstyle without advance notice would be a big deal in tv terms, I remember that the WB were practically forbidding leading actresses to cut their hair after what happened with Felicity lol. I always understand it as Charisma literally cut her hair in the middle of a season 2 episode, just showing up with short hair on the day without telling anyone, and so that totally threw the continuity of scenes. Charisma herself talks about her pregnancy being seen as the last straw, so I guess that her already being seen as having a pattern of not considering production needs more all had an effect on how mad everyone got with her as well. It was a sad way to end things though
they could have chosen to incorporate her pregnancy in a way that didn't turn the character into a villain.
Definitely, I guess the issue was that they always originally intended for Cordelia to be the main season 4 villain, and so weren’t prepared to change that? I know that Joss was excited about her character having a big throw down with Angel and the pregnancy and Jasmine was their compromise on that. Honestly they should have just come up with a whole different arc once they knew that Charisma was going to be heavily pregnant in the back half of the season, she deserved to have at least 5 or 6 episodes off for maternity leave.
And ditto on Sarah :)