Is is standard to have sold the property? Or do some creators "just" sell the episodes?
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Is is standard to have sold the property?
Yep. I can't think of a single example otherwise. Once you sell a script, TV or feature, you lose most of the control. You still get the money but you don't get so much of a say. It's why there can be a DLM without Fuller and a TWW without Sorkin.
After a certain point, I think the rights to Buffy revert back to Joss. But I think that's probably a long way off.
Spike did love Drusilla, but that didn't keep him from killing other people.
It did make him help Buffy stop the world from ending.
It's why there can be a DLM without Fuller and a TWW without Sorkin.
Mmm. Interesting.
Hmm, all this talk of vampires and their need to be sociable has given me a wild hair.
They're all just bits of the Vampire from back in Old Ones' days, yes? Maybe it wants to reunify somehow?
This should tie into the Wolf Ram and Hart somehow...
Isn't it the case that Buffy is owned by 20th's film division, b/c of the movie?
Well yes. The Buffy deal is more complicated because of the movie.
I'm trying to think of an example of a show creator who successfully stopped their show from continuing or being spun off without them. Or a feature writer who blocked a movie from being made. I can come up with one who tried but he didn't get anywhere.
Who tried?
My brain is trying to construct parallels with comics, but that isn't making anything any simpler.
I think it might be the human aspect of the half-breed vampire that drives them to socialize. They form nests, they get those eternal love bonds, they sire new vampires and keep them with them as lackeys and companions. Maybe that's why they were referred to as "The Lonely Ones" - they're evil people who need people.