Over on TVtome.com they say that originally, Joss was going to have all of the scoobies sacrifice themselves to save the world in "Chosen"; they would all end up in the Hellmouth, which sounds to me like the void mentioned in Fray. I'll bet that's what that referred to. Joss later decided that killing everyone would be too sad for an ending.
You always think harder is better. Maybe next time I patrol, I should carry bricks and use a stake made out of butter.
Buffy ,'The Killer In Me'
Buffy 4: Grr. Arrgh.
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WildDemon Cornelius - Aug 04, 2003 7:38:15 pm PDT #4189 of 10001
Take your fingers off it, don't you dare touch it, you know it don't belong to you, to you...
Gleebo - Aug 04, 2003 8:11:48 pm PDT #4190 of 10001
"God...my brilliance is now becoming a bit of a burden...get back to me." Dr. Cox - Scrubs
Killing everyone would have been Joss.
§ ita § - Aug 04, 2003 8:18:15 pm PDT #4191 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I see him as the "killing almost everyone" type. We need to feel really really bad for someone.
Gleebo - Aug 04, 2003 8:20:05 pm PDT #4192 of 10001
"God...my brilliance is now becoming a bit of a burden...get back to me." Dr. Cox - Scrubs
After 7 years I think Joss could have found a way to make us feel sympathy for the school bus.
Sassy - Aug 04, 2003 8:21:09 pm PDT #4193 of 10001
'Til we dance away...
Right, like even in Shakespearean tragedy, doesn't someone usually live to tell the tale?
Gleebo - Aug 04, 2003 8:22:08 pm PDT #4194 of 10001
"God...my brilliance is now becoming a bit of a burden...get back to me." Dr. Cox - Scrubs
- cough*AndrewandDawn*endcough*
WildDemon Cornelius - Aug 04, 2003 10:29:29 pm PDT #4195 of 10001
Take your fingers off it, don't you dare touch it, you know it don't belong to you, to you...
Sassy: Yeah, the standard ending for a Shakespearean tragedy sees all the main characters lying around dead except one, who restores order and gets to be the next king or something. I was expecting the season to end w/ Buffy dying yet again and then going to heaven, and maybe w/ a bunch of other characters dying; I thought Faith might also die redeeming herself and then a new slayer would be called.
Gleebo: Andrew and Dawn the survivors! What are you crazy? (actually I do kinda like them, but I'd be quite cross if they were the ones left alive and the Core Four, Spike, and Anya were all on the floor dead)
DCJensen - Aug 04, 2003 10:40:20 pm PDT #4196 of 10001
All is well that ends in pizza.
I seriously doubt Joss intended on killing the core four.
Unless it was the brakes going out on the bus as they went through a moutain pass after the finale and Willow was knocked out, so couldn't save them with magic.
And the only survivor is Faith, on Spike's motorcycle, who sees it all.
Then in the sequal series, Spike is sent back by TPTB, shows up to be her watcher....and get his bike.
Gleebo - Aug 04, 2003 10:55:30 pm PDT #4197 of 10001
"God...my brilliance is now becoming a bit of a burden...get back to me." Dr. Cox - Scrubs
Exactly why I figured it would have been right up Joss's alley because pissing people off is so damn fun.
DCJensen - Aug 04, 2003 10:59:25 pm PDT #4198 of 10001
All is well that ends in pizza.
yeah, but it's kind of an ending that a lot of people expected, so...
Killing off everyone kind of limits you. Blake's 7 did it, and now Avon is the only one who get's his own series. It's 25 years later, but...
On Cheers, John Ratzenberger wanted to end the series with Cliff coming into the bar and shooting everyone with an UZI, but that didn't sit well with the network....