So I'm frankly not all that familiar with it. (Bet ya'll never considered that, didja? But it's the truth.)
I not only considered it, but figured either you never watched a lot of it, or you intentionally tried to keep Angel a beat away from it, somehow. Your
Angels
were too different for you to have been very Buffified at all. That's not a crack at you, or at either series by the way. I think it made sense for A:ts to take a step away from BtVS. It needed to make it on its own, and part of that is establishing its own tone, or feel, or mood, or whatever.
The icing on the pissed-off cake for me with that article was the last paragraph, where he randomly changes gear entirely to the MTV/Live 8 fiasco, and bitches about commercials/marketing and Reality TV. That bit made a little head-shaped dent in the desk, given that a few heartbeats earlier he was effectively taking (badly researched and cheap) shots at one of (imho) the American Summer's best scripted dramas.
That was odd Partyman, wasn't it? While reading it, I fully expected that Live-8/MTV stuff was all going to tie back into
The Closer
and
The Inside.
I was confused for a tick, when the article then just ended.
Tim,
I think your next series ought to be entitled, "I Never Wrote for Buffy." It should be a sitcom, but a dark one--like a serialized
Heathers,
or something. SMG should guest star in the pilot. Your lead character will be a writer named
Tim Minear.
The premise, as the title suggests, is that fictional Tim never wrote for Buffy. However, Tim is so continually linked to/credited with writing BtVS, that even Fictional Sarah Michelle Gellar starts giving interviews, talking about working with Tim.
Soon, the SMG character turns up dead. Tim is, of course, the main suspect, but is quickly cleared, because obviously, if he's our lead in a sitcom, he is not the killer.
Each week, a new Mutant Enemy alum comes under suspicion for the murder of SMG: Alyson Hannigan, Charisma Carpenter, Seth Green, ASH, Alexis, Julie, David, James Marsters, you name it. Some of them can be killed, too. At the end of each episode, as the ME alum of the week is cleared, the running joke will be that even with all the publicity from the case, Tim is *still* linked to BtVS.
Although a TV writer by day, fictional Tim turns into an amateur detective by night, not because this case just isn't going away, but because he is obsessed with finding a way to get the press to stop perpetuating the false link between him and BtVS. Tim enlists the help of the cast of the show he is currently producing. These will be our other sitcom regulars and should include Tom Lenk, and of course, Armin Shimerman (who will be your Lou Grant character).
In the penultimate episode of the series, all signs re killing SMG will point to Joss Whedon. Maybe he'll even go to trial. But in the series finale, we'll see you, Joss, and every guest who has ever appeared, sitting in a swanky L.A. bar, watching a cop/Bronco chase on TV. The LAPD have finally caught onto and are after the real killer: Kristy Swanson.
I would totally watch that.
Yes! The vocal cult following follows on.
What's a vocal cult, anyway? Do you all talk like me?
We sing about you. I'm composing a song as I type.
I don't see any connection between Rachel Nichols and SMG besides the fact that at one point, they have both been blondes. Does this mean Rachel Nichols is also disappointing because she isn't like Clare Kramer? What about Elisabeth Rohm? That chick who played Nina?
I hate this "same hair color = same person" thing. It happens far too often.
Cindy, that is brilliant. Brilliant, I say.
...I like that the people I spend time with, for all that they might not know the names of many writers, or who wrote what episode, they STILL know that Tim never wrote for Buffy.
I also chafed at the "vocal cult following" thing. I know that "cult" with respect to TV is not meant to be diminutive, but I always feel it that way, a little. Like, "Aw, Tim can't get a real following, but the three silly people who like him are so cute!" (Three was a number I chose at random, by the way.) It seems very dismissive to me of any show to call its following cult. Calling it a cult show somehow feels less bad, to me.
Bwah! Good one, Cindy.
But admit it -- she does have a little young Jodi Foster thing happening? And a dash of Bridget Fonda.
Truthfully? Rebecca only reminds me of Foster inasmuch as her character is written that way by you and the gang—I don't really see echoes of the other actress in Rachel's acting choices. (Although now that I think of it, Foster herself is such a chameleon that "brilliant" is really the only identifying factor I can think of in her work.) The Fonda likeness hits me really strong though, in both her appearance and certain mannerisms.
(What's a vocal cult, anyway? Do you all talk like me?)
Sadly I think most of your vocal cult does tend to pick up speech patterns from Joss rather than you. Maybe that's the source of confusion about your resume? Or it could be that your last couple of shows centered around pretty, talented actresses, since no one EVER did that before Buffy.
What's a vocal cult, anyway?
The Scientology Glee Club?
Aww. Strega totally pimps The Inside:
MUST-SEE TV: "Battlestar Galactica" is awfully good, and "House" has some very fun dialogue but it gets repetitive. I've also been watching "The Inside" on Fox, and I'm trying to catch up on "Veronica Mars," since I missed the initial run but kept hearing how great it was.
In related news, I watched BSG S1 in 11.5 hours yesterday, and it is, in fact, awfully good.
Although a TV writer by day, fictional Tim turns into an amateur detective by night, not because this case just isn't going away, but because he is obsessed with finding a way to get the press to stop perpetuating the false link between him and BtVS. Tim enlists the help of the cast of the show he is currently producing. These will be our other sitcom regulars and should include Tom Lenk, and of course, Armin Shimerman (who will be your Lou Grant character).
You forgot Poland the beagles!
"Aw, Tim can't get a real following, but the three silly people who like him are so cute!"
Yes, this. And also because we're not actually doing anything about the cancellation. We're not out campaigning. We're vocal in this thread, right here, so I kept thinking, "is he reading Buffistas?"
Narrator, I almost edited in the beagles, and then decided I'd gone on too long, anyhow. An optional ending? In the course of the series all the characters of all the ME cast and crew who guest will die--one per episode. The final scene takes place in the same bar, with Tim, and the cast of Wonderfalls, The Inside, and Lois and Clark.
