The liberal blogger Atrios has apparently recently watched "Once More with Feeling" (or at least, Buffy episodes in general), because he's using lines from it for his Open Thread posts.

"There's nothing we can't face, except for threads." "She does pretty well with threads from hell." "When the apocalypse comes...thread me." "The thread I bear is scorching me."

An interview with David Fury.

Atrios is a big Buffy fan. He has used thread titles from other episodes, and (very occassionally) discussed Buffy. Ampersand (Barry Deustch) (Alas a Blog) is a Buffy/Angel and Firefly and Wonderfalls and Farscape fan.

Sumi, that link goes to the Summer Glau interview.

Oh no. Let me find David Fury again.

Try this.

Good interview.

Has anyone ever asked him in-depth about the Choices Angel script? I've read rumors that production was halted, because it was too dark, and needed to be re-written. I've read a copy of the original, and it certainly was darker. Some elements of it were used later in the series.

I think he's (understandably) confusing titles -- "Choices" was a Buffy ep he wrote, and I've always seen that Angel episode referred to as "Corrupt." Anyway, Minear talks about it a bit here (toward the bottom):

It would seem that this was about the same time that the Internet ran rampant with rumors that the WB had shut down the show for retooling. `You can’t really call it a shut down because we hadn’t really started,` Minear clarifies. `We just pushed back the shoot date for the first episode a week or two. It’s not like alarms went off and we had to pull plugs on everything. I’ve read on the Internet where people were saying the network freaked, and they told us to shut down, and that’s not true at all. We were still creating what the idea of the show was going to be, and basically we decided to rethink that first episode. The other thing that people don’t realize is that a lot of the other episodes that we’ve done this year were written much earlier and did not change significantly. It was really that first episode where we went back, rethought it, and we were lucky we had the luxury to do that.`

It's interesting (considering various internet Spuffist kerfuffles) that Fury talks about how much he likes writing Spike. Also how he wasn't confident writing Lilah, when he wrote one of her best scenes (the decapitation chat with Wes).

JOZIC: I read an interview with Drew Goddard where he said that every script he writes he writes to music. Do you have a method of your own for writing?

FURY: No. It's more like a lot of procrastination followed by playing Half-Life on the computer followed by surfing the 'net followed by writing a little bit followed by taking a nap. That's basically my process.

I love that.

I guarantee that, if we waited as we normally did, by the time May had come around they would have picked up Angel. I can guarantee that.

That, on the other hand, makes me want to cry.