(SPOILER)
The Sun-Sentinel
quotes Anthony Stewart Head.
Re-affirming last week's revelation that he will be back for at least 10 episodes, the actor acknowledged it would take some "creative scripting" to bring him back into the story as the others characters don't need mentoring anymore. "I don't know how they're going to do that. It will be interesting to find out."
Feel free to speculate...
July 14 2002
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We know he is going to be instrumental in Willow's rehabilitation in England. He described the coven in Devonshire England as the place that helped him slow Dark Willow down. There's probably no other place on the planet that could handle Willow right now. They could explain Giles' re-arrival in Sunnydale easily enough: he'll simply escort Willow back to Sunnydale after she's allegedly recovered, and perhaps will want to hang around awhile to monitor her progress. That will bring him back to Sunnydale. Keeping him in Sunnydale may involve the events of the latest "Big Bad" evil that the Scooby Gang has to face. If the Big Bad is something that Giles has an unique affinity with, then he'll definitely stay for half the season.
Perhaps a Big Bad that Giles has a history with. Perhaps a Big Bad that he and Buffy faced some six or seven years ago... *smirk* I'm not hinting Ethan Rayne this time.
ZachsMind | July 14, 14:37 CET
Recent spoilers indicate that Giles is not escorting Willow back to Sunnydale. This would imply his scheduled appearance in at least 10 episodes would mostly be in the second half of Series 7?
I would love to see Ethan Rayne back. There's undiscovered country there in his relationship with Giles, which I would very much like to see explored. Unfortunately, the show, as Whedon told Head in the past, is about Buffy, not about the Watcher. I think Rayne would never return as part of a story arc. He'd probably show up in a stand alone epi and we have been promised there would be more of those next season. (see Jane Espenson at the Succubus Club)
I once read somewhere (a one off post on a mailing list so I don't know if there's any truth to it) that originally the idea was to end the series with Slayer vs Watcher. This scenario was published as a novelisation (The Lost Slayer, Christopher Golden), in which "Joyce Summers is dead. Spike has been slain, Faith is gone and So Cal has fallen under vampire rule. And Rupert Giles is Vampire King."
This really would be the perfect way to re-introduce Giles into the series. It'll never happen, I'm sure.
Caroline | July 14, 15:10 CET
Eyeghon may be gone, but I'm sure there's plenty of other skeletons in Ripper's closet which could turn him evil. Personally though I'd rather they not turn him evil and explore a more detailed plot arc between Giles and Rayne in the BBC series if it ever gets off the ground. Is that BBC TV series still viable, or has Manchild pretty much taken up ASH's attention?
ZachsMind | July 14, 16:53 CET
Quote from ASH, at CreepCon last month: "Joss wants to do it, I want to do it, BBC wants to do it. It kind of depends on FOX and because it'll have to be produced by the BBC under the license to FOX since Joss and I only want to do like six episodes a year. The American studios - UPN were very interested but they want 22 episodes, which is like not really on the cards. So, it's still happening, Jane Espenson [Buffy writer/producer] and Joss are putting together a pile of scripts."
Caroline | July 14, 17:57 CET
ZachsMind | July 14, 18:17 CET