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Post by Incandescence 112 on Mar 26, 2022 19:32:23 GMT -8
So, on a recent Passion of the Nerd livestream (yes, he's still going, and his videos have only gotten better over time), our old friend/savior of Angel Tim Minear dropped by! Some really interesting tidbits, but my favorites were that A)--He apparently banged out all of his scripts for S2--including Are You Now--over weekends. Pretty impressive stuff. And B)--He actually had a Faith spinoff sold to a network, but Eliza Dukshu decided to star in True Calling instead. Now I feel slightly deprived of a Tim Minear-run Faith spinoff.
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Quiara
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Post by Quiara on Mar 28, 2022 15:47:33 GMT -8
Damnit!! I assume that Dushku didn't want to be typecast as Faith for the rest of her career? I would say "she didn't want to work with Whedon anymore" but the origin story for Dollhouse would seem to prove otherwise.
Anyway, it's kind of wild to think that he turned out that many great scripts on that quick a schedule, and I'm very sad that Minear didn't go on to create... wait a sec... he co-created 9-1-1?? Bahahahahahaha
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Post by Jeremy on Mar 30, 2022 20:13:06 GMT -8
I remember a discussion of unproduced Buffy spinoffs on the old forum. There is actually an entire Wiki page devoted to them. The one that came closest to fruition was Buffy: The Animated Series, but that one was left in permanent limbo after Fox Kids shut down. The sad truth is that most spinoff ideas never reach the screen - and even those that do don't make it past a backdoor pilot. Angel is pretty rare in that it was a successful spinoff that established its own identity and ran for several seasons even after its parent show (and lead-in) moved to a different network. Most proposed offshoots aren't nearly that lucky. Oh, and Tim Minear isn't just the cocreator of 9-1-1; he's also the showrunner of both that series and its own (modestly successful) spinoff, Lone Star. After twenty years of routine cancellations, he has finally found commercial success on television - although not in the type of series he's built his reputation on. |
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Post by Incandescence 112 on Apr 1, 2022 17:02:44 GMT -8
I remember a discussion of unproduced Buffy spinoffs on the old forum. There is actually an entire Wiki page devoted to them. The one that came closest to fruition was Buffy: The Animated Series, but that one was left in permanent limbo after Fox Kids shut down. The sad truth is that most spinoff ideas never reach the screen - and even those that do don't make it past a backdoor pilot. Angel is pretty rare in that it was a successful spinoff that established its own identity and ran for several seasons even after its parent show (and lead-in) moved to a different network. Most proposed offshoots aren't nearly that lucky. Oh, and Tim Minear isn't just the cocreator of 9-1-1; he's also the showrunner of both that series and its own (modestly successful) spinoff, Lone Star. After twenty years of routine cancellations, he has finally found commercial success on television - although not in the type of series he's built his reputation on. We didn't even get a Serenity-style Spike movie that was in the pipeline! Minear is such a good writer, it seems a shame that he's working on police procedurals. Granted, I haven't seen either, but people don't seem to think they're as good as Southland or Homicide: Life on the Street. I love the idea that he just banged out those S2 scripts on the fly like that. And the Darla arc wasn't even really planned from the start--he just happened to write Reprise and Epiphany so well that it seemed like it was. Even that weird schmuck bait scene at the end of Reprise that people list as a flaw sometimes wasn't the intention of the script. It was meant in his words to be a sort of inversion of Surprise. |
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