Well its nice to know that it went out with a bang

Apocalypse | May 29, 23:31 CET

That's excellent news...now where were all of those viewers when the show was on the chopping block?

And yet another sign of the impending apocalypse is right underneath the Angel paragraph. The Biggest Loser? Flames...on the side of my face...heaving breaths...

MindPieces | May 29, 23:32 CET

Could help potential spin offs or mini series, anything buffyverse related, always good to go out on a high.

SeanValen | May 30, 00:58 CET

O/T -- Another apocalyptic idea: "The Last Horseman"

Death, Famine, War, and Pestilence duke it out in exciting world-spanning locales! Who will be the last horseman standing? Each week we team a horseman with a randomly chosen viewer and a celebrity guest star... Maybe YOU could be on tv: you, Famine, and Macaulay Culkin, playing Ultimate Frisbee in Kuala Lampur!

[Sorry, bogu was channeling Buck Henry. All better now. -ed.]

bogu_salias | May 30, 01:17 CET

Reading that whole page is disheartening. The direction television is going..? Celebrity Blackjack??? I weep for the future.

ZachsMind | May 30, 02:26 CET

This is good news. It is a shame that it took a finale to get occasional viewers to return to the series. But, then, I wonder if the series had been as heavily advertised during the season as it was for the finale -- or if there hadn't been as many long breaks in the schedule -- or if the network hadn't forced so many changes on the series -- whether the series would have lost those viewers in the first place. Oh, well. It sounds as though the sixth season -- from all the rumors from Joss, Fury, etc. that are floating around -- would have been a far remove from the original premise of the series. More viewers might have been lost with the "post-apocalyptic" "Mad Max"-type format. It would have interested me, but . . . we'll never know.

palehorse | May 30, 02:32 CET

What WAS season six to be? I'm in the dark on this one. Whatever it would have been, my ideal season six includes Angel giving Giles a thump on the noggin for not helping when Fred was in trouble. And just maybe some Gwen Raiden, for the drooly fanboy in me.

Ocular | May 30, 03:37 CET

David Fury was recently interviewed in a magazine and said that season 6 was going to be post-apocalyptic, like Mad Max, with Angel as the road warrior

here's the actual quote:

"If Angel had come back next year,it would have been post-apocalyptic" says David Fury of the producers plans for season six. "I don't mean like Dark Angel with just a bunch of industrial buildings,I mean Mad Max Road Warrior.Season six would have been hugely post-apocalyptic with Angel as the Road Warrior. That was our idea for the next season, so with that in mind we knew the end of season five was leading into something huge and global and monumental.

"In the finale[Not Fade Away],they basically start a war and it's a war that will have huge good and evil implications of almost Biblical proportions. It would have been very different next year and a little more sci-fi,I guess. It was something we knew we could never show because we would never have the money to show it,so we figured,"Let's lead us into it". We knew we would end this thing with our guys about to jump into the breach of a giant apocalypse."

oh, and i think there was a quote somewhere where they someone said that they were going to split Illyria into two where Fred was one half, and Illyria was the other - so Amy would be playing two roles full time - I would've loved to see that

you know, it's possible that they can keep these plans, and try to do a trilogy of movies to wrap it all up, with a budget high enough to do all three, but low enough so the money would be easily recouped

[ edited by aapac on 2004-05-30 02:02 ]

aapac | May 30, 04:00 CET

Wow that Fury quote was great! Can't you just see this on the big screen?

And the Fred/Illy split? How cool. Can't you just see the FG when in trouble; "Er, Fred, you're real nice and all, but we need you to be super now, ok? Thanks."

Willowy | May 30, 04:05 CET

paulaniuk expresses my feelings perfectly: "i am jack's broken heart."

rsfayez | May 30, 05:08 CET

"I am Jack's complete lack of surprise".......damn, I know that stuff, where is that from again? Going nuts here.

And on the Angel ratings, yeah always good to hear, even though I don't know what numbers to compare them to. And it's at least nice for pride's sake. And up against end-of-the-season American Idol no less.

And the stuff Fury says about Season 6, is that legit? I think I read Joss saying he wanted to bring Oz back, and help Nina adapt to her wolfness. But this whole Road Warrior thing....hnn, I don't know, that would have affected the whole Buffyverse and thrown any possible spinoffs for the future completely up in the air. Are we sure Fury wasn't goofing off?

Also he says they would never be able to show it, but Joss had his ideas for Season 6 well before he knew they were cancelled so why would he plan stuff they'd never be able to film? Just wondering...

EdDantes | May 30, 12:34 CET

Ed, it's from Fight Club. "I am Jack's aggravated bile duct."

delavagus | May 30, 20:06 CET

Based, of course, upon the Readers Digest series of touching articles, all of which were named "I am Joe's <insert unspeakably icky body part>". They made the spleen into a subtly compassionate protagonist to whom we can all relate. The spleen, people. Ewww.

[ edited by giles (yes, it is my real name) on 2004-05-30 23:58 ]

giles (yes, it is my real name) | May 31, 01:46 CET