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[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
The US series sort of cannibalised the UK one. Despite the fallout from previous episodes, the US was a killer of the week format. I think five US episodes were entirely original, but I don't remember any straight one-to-one plot duplications.
The US put a different spin on the coworkers, also. So can USA be all that profitable, putting all these new series into prodution, broadcasting them once, then not renewing? More importantly, can I blame the same executives who fired Bitty Schram?
I don't remember any straight one-to-one plot duplications.
The one where people were being burnt was one-to-one, and also the one with the grief counsellor come first to mind.
Well, not straight, because of episode length, but they had the same plots.
I forgot about them. Probably has something to do with the lack of Andy Serkis. Makes anybody else in the role somehow unmemorable.
I don't remember any straight one-to-one plot duplications.
The near-death experience one was quite similar as well (I mean, in the set-pieces of breaking the script, although not in the in-between parts). I was a bit miffed that they duplicated the original so faithfully; I thought a departure would have been more interesting.
The funny part is, to my knowledge UK Touching Evil has been in print in series 1, and 3, but never 2. I remember 1 and 3, as they've been rebroadcast on public television within the last 3 years, but I can't remember a thing from series 2.
Does Tim not get along with Todd Holland?
I think they get along well, why do you ask?
And Tim Minear focused most of his career on the cult favorites X-Files, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel and Firefly.
Hee. I suppose if you added up all the hours Tim's spent either saying, or thinking, "But I never worked on Buffy," we could say he's focused much of his career on it.
Tim still worked on Buffy.
And January 2005, now? What?
Also, yay Todd Holland! Someone else who didn't think Brotherhood of the Wolf was hot shit.
I suppose if you added up all the hours Tim's spent either saying, or thinking, "But I never worked on Buffy,"
He keeps on denying it. What is he trying to hide?