Written by Chris Snelgrove | issued
runaway success of buffy the vampire slayer This led to the development of angel A spin-off that focuses on the titular vampire with a soul, played memorably by David Boreanaz. Although that show certainly didn’t come close to the overall quality of the original show, angel It is rightly remembered as one of the best spin-offs in television history. what a lot buffy But what fans don’t realize is that we were potentially going to get something even better than this. angel: Faith spin-off focusing on Eliza Dushku’s popular vampire slayer.
buffy face spinoff
The idea was the brainchild of Tim Minear. angel Writer who later became an Emmy-nominated executive producer american horror story. rear buffy the vampire slayer ‘ ended in 2003, but Miner wanted to follow up that show with another Faith spinoff that would follow the Slayer’s adventures after Buffy returned to save the world in season seven. Initially, Minar envisioned his show as an “encounter with faith.” kung fu”
This is of course a reference to the great 70’s TV show starring David Carradine. In this show, the main character wanders through the Wild West, righting wrongs everywhere he encounters. meanwhile buffy While Miner focused primarily on a fixed location called Sunnydale, Miner said that Fass’s spin-off would have the title character “perhaps riding a motorcycle across the globe, trying to find his place in the world.” ”I wanted to make it into something. He acknowledged that the show “will take off at some point,” but that “the idea that she’s rooted somewhere just seems wrong to me” and that “she’s always on the move.” The idea of being there seemed right to me.”
She originally appeared in buffykeeping Faith moving in this spinoff actually ends up paying off for one of the biggest storylines. angel. As Minear points out, Faith broke out of prison in that show to help stop Angelus (an amoral and sadistic monster that Angel transforms into when he loses his soul). She then went to Sunnydale to help Buffy stop the First Evil, but “some people would have been after her” after her escape. This may explain why Faith is constantly moving from place to place in her own spin-offs.
why it didn’t happen
rear buffyfans wanted more, and the Faith spinoff probably succeeded thanks to Eliza Dushku’s popularity, but why wasn’t this show made? The main reason for that was that Dushku felt Sarah Michelle Gellar “left some really big unfinished business” and that “sometimes you have to go with your gut, but my gut tells me…” , which told me that I might need to try something different.” In short, she wanted to work outside of the Buffyverse, and that’s why she chose the supernatural drama. That’s why I became the main character. true calling.
as hardcore buffy As fans know, this Faith spinoff is just one of many canceled projects within Whedon’s universe. There were also ideas for a Giles spinoff, a Spike movie, an animated spinoff, and even a Slayer school show featuring some of the newly created Slayers from Buffy’s seventh season. While all of these may have been fun (especially Giles’ show), none of them had the full potential of a spin-off featuring Faith. That’s because, as the rogue slayer once joked, fans are always ready to “thank God” for “an attractive girl with superpowers.”
