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runaway success of Buffy the Vampire Slayer led to the development of angel A spin-off focusing on David Boreanaz’s memorable title as a vampire with a soul. While the show certainly didn’t live up to the overall quality of the original show, angel It is rightly remembered as one of the best spinoffs in television history. how many burpee But what fans don’t realize is that we almost got something better than that, potentially. angel: A Faith spin-off focusing on Eliza Dushku’s popular vampire Slayer.
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This idea was Tim Minear’s. angel The writer later became an executive producer on the Emmy-nominated production. american horror story. later Buffy the Vampire Slayer Minear, which ended in 2003, wanted to follow up on that show with a separate Faith spinoff that would follow the Slayer’s adventures after he returned in season 7 to help Buffy save the world. Originally, Minear envisioned his show as “Faith Meets.” kung fu.”
Of course, this is a reference to the amazing ’70s TV show starring David Carradine, where the main character wanders the Old West and sets right every wrong he encounters. while burpee Although it mostly focused on the fixed location of Sunnydale, Minear wanted the title character of the Fath spinoff to have a character “who would probably be traversing the Earth on a motorcycle, trying to find his place in the world.” He acknowledged that the show “will get an arc at some point,” but said that “the idea of her being rooted somewhere felt wrong to me” and that “the idea of her being constantly in motion felt right to me.”
When she originally appeared burpeeKeeping Faith moving in this spinoff would actually pay off in one of its biggest storylines. angel. As Minear points out, Faith escaped prison in that show to stop Angelus (when Angel loses his soul, he turns into an amoral, sadistic monster). She later went to Sunnydale to help Buffy stop the First Evil, but after her prison break, “she may have had people following her”. This may explain Faith’s constant movement from place to place in her spinoffs.
Why didn’t that happen?
later burpeeFans wanted more and a Faith spinoff would have been successful due to Eliza Dushku’s popularity, so why wasn’t this show produced? The main reason was that Dushku felt that Sarah Michelle Gellar had left her with “really big boots to fill” and that “sometimes you have to follow your gut and my gut was telling me that maybe I should try something completely different.” In short, I ended up becoming the main character of a supernatural drama because I wanted to do something other than Buffyverse. True Calling.
As hardcore burpee Fans know this Faith spinoff is just one of many canceled projects in Whedon’s universe. There were also ideas for a Giles spinoff, a Spike movie, an animated spinoff, and a Slayer School show featuring the newly minted Slayer from Buffy’s seventh season. All of this could have been fun (especially the Giles show), but there was no potential for a spinoff featuring Faith. Because, as the villainous Slayer once joked, fans are always ready to ‘thank God’ for ‘a sexy woman with superpowers’.
