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Latest news – February 1, 2002
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Episode Summaries
For those of you who are as spoiler-whorish as I am, I am posting complete
summaries of what I know about the episodes. I'm making these into links
so that those who do not want to be spoiled that much can just pass them
by.
Episode 13
Episode 14
Episode 15
Episode 16
Latest Rumors:
Posted by Wanda on E!Online on 1-28-02
From lorna: Will we ever see Faith again on Buffy? Please say yes.
I wish I could--and so do the producers. Apparently, they have this amazing
Faith storyline just waiting for her, but Eliza Dushku has been so busy
stockpiling movie roles she hasn't been able to commit.
From irishwars: You know what we Buffy fans want to hear! Buffy and Spike:
What's the news?
Riley (with the new missus) is a major bump in the Spikey road--which
leads up to the vamp's new tramp, whom he brings as a date to Anya and
Xander's big day.
From bigpineapple: Which are better odds--getting struck by lightning
in January or Tara not being the big Scooby death on Buffy?
Unless you're camping out under a redwood, I'd go for the latter.
Posted by KC on Crawford Street Mansion on 1-29-02
http://www.angelfire.com/tv2/WatchersCouncil/buffy/spoilers/index.html
Dead Things
* Warren, kidnaps his former girlfriend Katrina into being his willign
slave. However when she fights their control, she ends up six feet under.
* The Troika frame Buffy for Katrina's murder.
* Spike's relationship with Buffy takes a rather violent turn when he
attacks her.
Note: Certain episodes were shifted in order to accomidate Marc Blucas'
episode. So this may be the evil thing that Warren does, only it will
happen earlier than previously reported. When I know more I will let you
know.
Older And Far Away
* Happy Birthday Buffy.
* Anya's demonic friend Halfrek, uses the Slayer's birthday as an opportunity
to play on some of her fears towards humanity, and uses Dawn's irritability
towards Buffy's behavior towards her as the vessel on which to do so.
As You Were
* Buffy is in for a shock when Riley returns to town with his demon hunting
bride, leaving her to feel like her relationship with Spike isn't all
that she thinks it is.
* Riley offers advice to Xander, whose nerves are getting a run for their
money as the big day approaches.
* Buffy and Spike break up. (Note: Not to seem sarcastic but I told you
it wouldn't last). Buffy wants to have a normal and loving relationship,
something Spike can never give to her.
Episode 16
* Xander and Anya's big day has come.
* Xander has his hands full with relatives of both human and demonic natures
set up camp at his house.
* D'Hoffyrn will be at the wedding.
* Halfrek takes it upon herself to test Xander's loyalties to Anya. Through
deception, Xander gets a glimpse of the worse possible thing he could
imagine his life with Anya could turn out to be. Upset he flees leaving
Halfrek to break the news to the blushing bride.
Posted by tyche on the Kitten Board on 2-1-02
Nice story of a fan encounter, with some spoilery ASH/Giles stuff
towards the end. Courtesy of The Watcher Girls mailing list:
Okay - I think I've calmed down a touch now ...
A couple of weeks ago I wrote to ASH via his agents asking if he would
give me
some background info on "Music for Elevators" that I could put
on my website.
I forgot that I used my usual headed paper which includes my work telephone
number. Anyway, 1.50pm today the phone rang. A voice on the other end
asked
"Is that Sandra Pascoe?" I thought - "oh god, I recognise
that voice ... I bet
its the bloody bank manager." Imagine my shock when he laughed and
said "It's
the tweedy book guy here!".
The voice was SO recognisable - sounded exactly like he did in the Steve
Wright
Radio interview. He actually thanked me for the website! I couldn't get
my
head around the fact that he'd not only looked at it but read the "Music
for
Elevators" review I'd written - picking up on a couple of things
I said and
explained about the "dead air" I'd complained about! He was
chatting away
about the album and then said "You are writing this down, aren't
you?" He
seemed to find it extremely funny when I said that I was shaking so much
I
couldn't even hold a pen! Regarding the translation of the French song
- he
said he'd rather a translation DIDN'T go on a website because it would
"lessen
the effect" of the song - I said no problem (if he'd told me to go
and jump off
the nearest cliff I wouldn't have hesitated!)
I did manage to get my senses together to ask a couple of questions about
Buffy
S6 & 7, Ripper and Manchild .... spoilers below:
I asked ASH whether he would be in anymore Season 6 eps. His response
was that
he's "supposed to be but doesn't really know as it's all confusing
and up in
the air at the moment." He doesn't even know what's happening in
the show as
he's been sent the episodes but hasn't had time to watch them yet!
Depressing - I asked whether he's signed for S7 and he replied that he's
got no
idea at all what's going to happen with Season 7. Doesn't bode well, does
it?
The good news is that he's already signed for a second season of "Manchild".
He said the first episode is slightly confusing but "stick with it".
When I
assured him that "sticking with it" would be no problem it sent
him into
another fit of giggles!
"Ripper" has definitely been delayed because of "Firefly/fox"
(whatever its
called!). Apparently, Joss is doing the sci-fi one to keep Fox sweet because
he needs their co-operation to do Ripper. Something to do with licenses.
Apparently nothing like Ripper has ever been done before - not with the
level
of co-operation needed between an American company and the good old BBC
- who,
according to ASH, are majorly enthusiastic about it and prepared to wait
until
doomsday if that's what it takes. He said it's brave of them because they
had
their fingers majorly burnt over co-operation with a US company with "Dr
Who".
As you can understand I was majorly wigged and funked during this call
- I'll
probably remember bits and pieces throughout the next couple of weeks!
Posted by tyche on the Kitten Board
Interview with Marti Noxon in Dreamwatch (March 2002)
selected excerpts
Sex, violence and addiction .. It’s all in a day’s work for
Buffy’s executive producer Marti Noxon.
Words: Andy Mangels
DW: Let’s talk about the arcs of this season.
MN: The Buffy arc has been very strong, just because I think she is learning
to live again and learning to find her way in a world that now feels very,
very strange to her. I think the progression of her relationship with
Spike and everything is all about her trying to come back to the world
of the living. The other part of her arc - and I think this is shared
by the other characters on the show - is about growing up and facing adult
responsibilities at the same time that they’re still figuring out
who they are.
The absence of parental figures is making all of them have to face themselves
in a new way. Xander getting married is kind of a confrontation with a
bunch of adult responsibilities that he may or may not be prepared for.
They’re all doing the same thing.
DW: Then you have the three villains.
MN: They try to choose a lifestyle that is all about evading responsibility.
They’re using their special talents to try to do less, not more.
We’ve tried to make that parallel evident, but I think it sometimes
gets lost in their goofiness. Really, the point of them is that these
guys are steadfastly refusing to grow up. They want to play video games
and meet girls and really do little else. They’re going to use their
smarts to try to figure out ways to get around regular jobs and regular
lives.
DW: What about evil Willow?
MN: I don’t think of her as being genuinely evil, especially not
at this point. Tara, she can use magic and she’s okay. But Willow
is finding out she’s an addict, and what you do about that really
defines who you are. If magic takes her to an evil, dark place, it’s
really of her own making. A lot of times, the bad stuff that happens to
a character is really external, and this season most of the characters
are making their own problems.
DW: Is there a season-defining arc?
MN: I think that this season is different. We have sort of parallel storylines
going on. I can promise you that they will all make sense as a single
concept in the end. But it’s a little greyer. I enjoyed the clarity
and cleanliness of stories you could do in high school - cheerleading
or pressure from your parents - but the truth is that, as you get older,
stuff isn’t quite as neat. I do think the show’s reflecting
that. Also, just in terms of the ‘Big Bad’, I think that we
had exhausted so many possibilities. We could not do another apocalypse.
MN: Amy has reappeared, and she’ll be part of the universe from time
to time. We don’t have any plans for her beyond the episodes that
she’s appeared in. I heard recently that [Eliza Dushku] would like
to come back on the show sometime. We love her, so anytime we can get
her...
Drusilla may come around again. She’d have some major feelings about
what’s going on. There’s no plans in the works right now, but
it’s something we’ve talked about. Giles is gone, but he’ll
definitely pop up from time to time when Tony’s in America.
DW: What about Xander and Anya’s wedding?
MN: There’s going to be a big, big sweeps wedding. It’s going
to be episode 16. We’ve often said that romance in Sunnydale never
goes well for very long, but they have the best shot of being a happy
couple I’d say, of all of them.
DW: Ten episodes have aired so far. What can you say about the second
half of the year?
MN: There will probably only be two more episodes before the end of January.
They’re both not going to move the storyline forward a whole lot.
They’re stand-alones. Nick Mark directs the twelfth one. We won’t
get to Buffy’s birthday until episode 14. We’re doing it late
this year. Steven DeKnight just wrote an episode that will air in early
February which is really dark.
You haven’t seen the last of Tara and Willow, that’s for sure.
Tara is in 16 out of 22 episodes this year. And Spike and Buffy’s
relationship is going to continue to progress and devolve.
DW: You’re writing the next-to-last episode of the season, part
one of a two-parter. After that, what are you doing in the future?
MN: My contract is up at the end of this season, but we’re talking
in earnest, so as far as I know, I’ll still be here. That’s
my hope. Long-term, I have ideas for shows of my own, and I’m eager
to pursue some of that, but I also am not going to walk away from the
best creative partnership I’ve ever experienced in my life. As long
as Joss Whedon will have me, I’m pretty much in camp.
Posted on ew.com on 1-29-02
http://www.ew.com/ew/report/0,6115,197919~10~0~latestnewsaboutbuffy,00.html
A vampire slayer gets no respect, so why should her fans? DVDs of
''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' have been available in Europe and Australia
for years (VHS versions of season five are already on sale in the UK),
yet America's slayer buffs had to wait until last week for season one
to make its DVD debut. Not that they weren't thrilled, but why the delay?
A spokesman at 20th Century Fox TV (the studio behind the UPN hit) cryptically
blames ''different release patterns'' for the delay.
That's not much in the way of consolation -- then again, even ''Buffy'''s
creators can't score DVDs. ''They don't send us copies,'' laughs executive
producer Marti Noxon. ''And we have a pretty limited say as far as what
episodes are released and when.'' Luckily, Noxon has plenty of say about
everything else. She talked to EW.com about discarded storylines, steamy
sex, and the new series that may one day fill ''Buffy'''s high heels.
EW: Now that the first season is out on DVD, can you tell us about
storylines that never made the cut?
MN: Actually, there were a lot of things we were going to do and never
did. More recently, in season four, Maggie (Lindsay Crouse) was going
to be much more of a mother figure for Riley, introducing him to another
girl to lure him away from Buffy. We thought it would create some Shakespearean
jealousy, and then we went, ehhh, forget it. But most of the changes [throughout
the series] have had to do with actors coming and going. We had a lot
more planned for Seth Green (Oz), for example, but his departure [to do
films] opened the door for Tara (Amber Benson), which was something we
never expected. And there would have been far more Angel-Buffy angst if
he hadn't gotten his own show.
EW: Speaking of Angel and Buffy, will there ever be another crossover?
If David E. Kelly can jump networks [''Ally McBeal'' and ''The Practice''],
why can't you?
MN: It's not gonna happen, and it's not only a contractual issue. Even
if it boosted our ratings for one night, viewers might say, ''Hey, what
about that Angel guy? I wonder what he's up to on that other network?''
which would be a problem for UPN. I don't think there's any bad blood,
but I also don't think either UPN or the WB are looking to do each other
a favor.
EW: Was Sarah Michelle Gellar's haircut really a big deal?
MN: No, not really. She came to us and said she wanted to do it, and we
were fine with that. It's not like our audience is completely attached
to the hair. And I like it. I think it makes her look kinda kicky.
EW: This has to be the raciest season of ''Buffy'' yet. How are you getting
away with Spike and Buffy's more explicit moments, including allusions
to oral sex?
MN: You can't get around the fact that the ideas are really nasty, but
the actual content hasn't been. We've had less nudity this year than last,
except for Spike, but no one's complaining about that. It's just because
the nature of Buffy's relationship with Spike is much more sexual than
her past relationships, and it's not about cuddly sex, either. I think
the censors understand that if you're a kid of a certain age, you're not
going to get it. And if you're old enough to get it, then, well, you get
it. But I'm sure we have some challenges ahead, because it's not going
to get less sexy for a while.
EW: What can you tell us about ''Buffy'' creator Joss Whedon's new Fox
series, ''Firefly''?
MN: It's basically a science fiction western. The show takes place in
the wake of a universal civil war in which the government wanted to unite
all of the planets into one federation. The government won, so the guys
on our ship, who fought for independence, are cruising the periphery of
the universe where some of the planets still haven't been reached by the
government. They aren't heroes; they do a lot of salvage work and odd
jobs, some of which aren't so legal. But it's not like most sci-fi shows
where everything's in black and white. The government isn't all bad, but
they do some bad stuff. There's a cool ship and there's going to be nifty
hardware, but the goal is to make all the characters' emotional lives
totally real. We're focusing on their struggles, not a guy with a gorgon
on his templok or something.
EW: So Joss has ''Buffy,'' ''Angel,'' ''Firefly,'' an animated version
of ''Buffy,'' and the BBC ''Buffy'' spin-off ''Ripper'' on his plate.
When does his head explode?
MN: He doesn't need the same things other humans need, like rest or bad
television, damn him. And the thing is, there's another show in the offing
that he and I and ''Angel'' producer David Greenwalt are planning for
next season. But it's possible that ''Ripper'' might be delayed because
of ''Firefly.''
EW: There's a rumor going around that another one of the main characters
on ''Buffy'' is going to die. How do you deal with leaks?
MN: I can't comment on the rumor. We used to get really upset and send
out fake spoilers so people would be confused, and we still do, sometimes,
but we can't plug all the holes. We try not to pay too much attention,
because it just makes you crazy.
EW: Now that Buffy's in her 20s, do you see a series end in sight?
MN: I was joking with a friend that one day we'll be doing Xander versus
the love handles monster. Let us stop before it gets lame! If key members
don't want to continue we won't. Every year we think, this could be it,
but every year we continue to feel enthused about it, and it just keeps
going.
Posted by Isabelle on FF on 2-01-02
Got the new stuff *bg*
Nothing new, but actual dialogue of the scene where they find out Spike
is the one behind the eggs. (Episode 15..I think)
quote:
------------------------------------------------------------------------
This is what the script says
Spike comes down after Buffy and Riley to the egg covered room
Spike: I can explain
Riley: We need more weapons. Spike screwed up. You didn't keep em frozen
did you Doctor?
Spike: You can stop calling me that anytime
(to Buffy)
If I may: The thing of it is I'm holding these for a friend, who....
Buffy punches Spike hard, bloodying his nose and sending him to the ground.
Buffy: No more games, Spike.
Spike gets furiously pissed off. Yells
Spike: That's bloody funny coming from you? No games?
That's all you've ever done is play me and keep playing with rules you
make up as you like.You know what I am, you've always known yet you come
to me just the same!
Posted by Steve DeKnight on the Bronze Beta on 2-1-02
Bullseye: Battlin’ Jack Murdock never misses a PBP. But since
he’ll be writing episode 19 right smack in the middle of it, he might
look a wee sleepy.
Bethia: Buffy’s going to start being nicer to Spike when he stops
being an evil dead vampire guy with a chip in his head making him play
nice. He’s evil, I tells ya! Evil! Seriously, it’s a complicated
relationship. These things take time. Sometimes they end well, sometimes
you get a stake in the heart.
Wend: Four more eps to break till the end, including mine.
Wendy: I’m sure gonna try to make it to the Succubus
Club the day after Dead Things. But I’m gearing up to write ep.
19, which starts filming Feb. 22, so I’m not a hundred percent sure.
Join me in the Crypt of Decryption:
First, I have an anonymous report of the episode 17 episode title: Normal
Again. In addition, this source says that the bridesmaid dresses are green
with ruffles. As of yet, this source is unconfirmed, but I suppose we'll
know soon enough!
The ever-helpful Steve DeKnight confirms the shooting schedule for me.
And the Dreamwatch interview with Marti Noxon indicates that Noxon will
be writing episode 21, which strongly suggests that Joss Whedon will write
the season finale. Right now only episodes 18 and 20 are up in the air,
and I'll take a guess that Jane Espenson will be writing one of those,
and David Fury the other.
Noxon's comments also suggest that the pre-emption of BtVS on February
19 may have taken the ME writers by surprise, as they seem to have planned
episode 16, Xander and Anya's wedding, as the sweeps-ending episode.
isabelle adds a few more details regarding episode 15 and a confrontation
involving Spike and Buffy and Riley over the demon eggs Riley is after.
I have compiled a brief summary of what is known of episode 15 and am
adding it to today's update.
Finally, we are approaching a key time in the season with regards to
a spoiler I posted on December 11 concerning a possible character death.
Click here to read about how I came to
post this spoiler and what I plan to do if the character death is not
confirmed by the end of episode 17.
Scheduled writers and episode titles:
Ep#13 Steve DeKnight
Title: Dead Things
Ep#14 Drew Greenberg
Title: Older and Far Away
Ep#15 Doug Petrie
Directed by Doug Petrie
Title: As You Were
Ep#16 Rebecca Rand Kirshner
Title: Hell's Bells
Ep. #17 Diego Gutierrez
Title: Normal Again Unconfirmed 2-1-02
Ep. #18 Unknown
Title: Unknown
Ep. #19 Steve DeKnight
Title: Unknown
Ep. #21 Marti Noxon Updated 2-1-02
Title: Unknown
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