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Buffy The Vampire Slayer: The Animated Series and Ripper

We all give Joss Whedon credit for creating some of our favorite TV of the
past two decades in Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Firefly. At the
same time, it's sometimes frustrating how much his creative efforts have
been focused on spin-offs and retreads of those shows, instead of on new
things. And then again, two of his unproduced plans for Buffy spin-offs
sounded like a lot of fun, and it's a shame they never found a home. Buffy
The Vampire Slayer: The Animated Series was first planned back in 2001,
when both Buffy and Angel were still on the air and flying high; it was
meant to tell stories from the middle of the first season, back when
everyone was still in high school and Cordelia being bitchy was more a
concern than Buffy's death-craving, Spike-fucking super-angst. Scripts were
written and promo art was created, but the show was never picked up for
production, and it died on the vine. Around the same time, Anthony Stewart
Head left Buffy in order to move back to England and spend more time with
his family; Whedon conceived of a BBC series called Ripper that would let
Head continue to play his Buffy character Giles in a new, more
adult-oriented setting. Given that Giles was always at his best when he was
at his darkest, rather than being used as a comic foil, the series sounded
like a terrific idea, but it too came to nothing at the time. The Animated
Series remains dead, but as of 2007, Whedon thought Ripper would resurface
in 2008, now as in film form. Other projects have sidetracked him for the
moment—presumably getting Dollhouse together for Fox is eating up his
time—but given how Fox folded, mutilated, and spindled Firefly, chances are
good that Dollhouse won't last long and that Whedon will have free time for
Ripper again in the near future.
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Jolan Tru
Filippo "Hytok" Simone
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