Whedon: More Buffy in the future

[Cthulhudrew]

I think doing a sequel would be hard, though. How the heck do you explain Illyria without taking up too much of the movie to do it?

"An elder god, bereft of much of her power, and confined to earth in a mortal shell." Without Wesley, you don't really need to dwell too much on the whole Winifred angle any more.

I agree that the final season of Angel was excellent- it's the only one I'm going to pick up on DVD. The second half of the season faltered a little bit, but the first half was solid, and the show ended with a bang.

I watched Angel up until the whole "Connor sleeps with Cordelia" thing- and then it all just got too painful. I kept wanting it to be more than it was, and it had some really good episodes, but mostly it just didn't quite do it for me. It seemed to me like the concept wasn't really solid- it kept moving all around and not ever quite settling, until the last season. Angel was initially described as being a show about redemption and the struggle to do the right thing, but that idea got sort of muddled. When the Fang Gang went to work for the bad guys, and had to struggle with corruption all around them, that's when it seemed like it connected; to me, it was like- here's the show it could have been all along.

Plus, I loved the Angel/Spike interaction (though many didn't). The two of them play off of one another very well.

 

[Staffan]

Lorne....I started watching Angel in Season Four and couldn't stand him, thought it was the goofiest concept ever. Watching the show from Season One onwards, he became my second favorite character, after Wesley.

Lorne was a great concept... for a recurring character. Then he became a regular, and then they blew up his bar a few times too many (or maybe that happened in reverse order), and they didn't really know what to do with him.

 

[Mouseferatu]

I liked Season 7 a lot because I loved the idea of the Slayer Academy, the lore of the potentials, and of course that sweet Slayer-axe Buffy finds.

My "weakest link" of the series would be Season 4. It felt like they were really searching for what the show would be, post-High School.

Huh. Really? I still dither between whether season 6 or season 7 was the low-point of the series. I thought season 4 was third-best, personally.

But then, I have a large gap in my rankings between seasons 6 and 7, and the rest of the series.

 

[Vigilance]

Huh. Really? I still dither between whether season 6 or season 7 was the low-point of the series. I thought season 4 was third-best, personally.

But then, I have a large gap in my rankings between seasons 6 and 7, and the rest of the series.

Seasons 6 and 7 were certainly different than the rest of the series. Anytime they dealt with Slayer lore on the series I was fascinated and Seasons 5 and 7 were the best for learning about the past slayers and examining what it means to be a slayer.

But when I rank a season of Buffy as good or bad, its only in relation to other seasons. Its probably my second favorite TV show of all time (behind DS9). For me Season 4 felt fragmented so Id rate it lower. Season 1 had the Master arc, Season 2 the whole Angel-Spike-Drusilla triad, Season 3 the Mayor and Faith, Season 5 Glory, etc.

Season 4 had a lot of interesting stuff- I liked the Oz-Willow-Tera stuff. I loved the Initiative. I liked the final fight with Adam. But the season never really gelled the way my favorite seasons of the series did.

 

[Mouseferatu]

But when I rank a season of Buffy as good or bad, its only in relation to other seasons.

Oh, absolutely. Bad Buffy is still better than a lot of what's on TV. But I still found 6 and 7 to be major letdowns after all that had come before.

For me, the rankings are

3
2
4
1 and 5 (tied)
----large gap----
6 and/or 7 (still dithering)

 

[mhacdebhandia]

Speaking of which . . .

When Joss Whedon came to Sydney to promote Serenity a few weeks ago, he posted on a local fan forum that he wanted to come out the day before the junket proper began and have a "quiet drink" with any fans who felt like turning up.

I think by the time people stopped arriving we had fifty, sixty people?

I was there when he arrived, before the real crowd showed up, so we got to talk to him a bit more than some other people - and, later, when we moved into the back room of the attached restaurant and all sat at tables while he made the rounds, fifteen or twenty minutes at each table, I asked him whether he had any firm ideas on what to do with the Buffy universe.

He replied that he did and that he'd know within a few months whether or not anything was going to come of it.

 

[Steverooo]

Joss Whedon

He knows enough to find fan boards in Sydney? I wonder if he ever pokes his nose in here?

 

[mhacdebhandia]

It's possible that United International Pictures suggested a place for him to post when he mentioned his idea to them. Certainly their representative was able to post later in the thread he started about it and confirm that it was really him and that he was really going to do it.

 

[Mean Eyed Cat]

Just please, Joss... I beg of you, man. No more Andrew!!

Yeah, but wasn't he the one that had everyone playing D&D towards the end of the last season? I kinda liked him.

A little trivia from imdb:

"The seventh season episode, "Storyteller", which focused on the character Andrew, was an experiment to see how the audience would respond to a show centered around Andrew, since the series was ending and they were trying to find a character upon whom they could build another spin-off show."

and

"The series finale had two different major-character death scenes written, one in which Anya was killed, and the other in which Andrew was."

Hmm... makes ya wonder...

 

[DonTadow]

Yeah, but wasn't he the one that had everyone playing D&D towards the end of the last season? I kinda liked him.

A little trivia from imdb:

"The seventh season episode, "Storyteller", which focused on the character Andrew, was an experiment to see how the audience would respond to a show centered around Andrew, since the series was ending and they were trying to find a character upon whom they could build another spin-off show."

and

"The series finale had two different major-character death scenes written, one in which Anya was killed, and the other in which Andrew was."

Hmm... makes ya wonder...

I actually liked Andrew (but season six and seven for me are among some of the best episode wise). How can we not like the only character in the series who played dungeons and dragons.