From: dak_mar@alcor.concordia.ca   
      
   On Saturday, June 28, 2014 5:46:36 AM UTC-4, LumpHammer wrote:   
   > On 25/06/2014 22:54, David wrote:   
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   > > http://www.eonline.com/news/553815/anthony-stewart-head-stil   
   -wants-to-do-a-buffy-spinoff-about-giles-can-this-please-happen?   
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   > > Anthony Stewart Head Still Wants to Do a Buffy Spinoff About Giles   
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   > > If Anthony Stewart Head has his way, you haven't seen the last of Buffy   
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   > > the Vampire Slayer's Rupert Giles.   
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   > > Head, who played Buffy Summers' (Sarah Michelle Gellar) Watcher and   
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   > > mentor on the beloved Buffy the Vampire Slayer, had been at the center   
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   > > of a Ripper spinoff of sorts for years now that would follow Giles   
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   > > being, well, pretty flippin' badass. But sadly, nothing ever came   
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   > > together. Yet Head hasn't given up hope of reuniting with Joss Whedon   
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   > > for the project.   
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   > > "You know what? I would do it. I would do anything to work with Joss   
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   > > again. He's a wonderful storyteller, a great director, and a lovely   
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   > > man," Head told Vulture when asked about a Giles spinoff still coming   
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   > > together. "I would love to, you know? Whether it's Ripper or something   
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   > > else..."   
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   > > Talk of a Giles-centric spinoff isn't anything new. The project was   
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   > > originally set for BBC with a 2008 premiere, but never came to fruition.   
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   > > The story would follow Giles, who was known as Ripper in his youth,   
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   > > after "he's cut adrift from Buffy and the rest of them," Head told   
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   > > Vulture. "What he becomes. It's a beautiful, beautiful ghost story, and   
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   > > it's extremely haunting, as you would expect of Joss. It's unlike   
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   > > anything that I've ever read before. And if Joss is still game, then I am!"   
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   > > http://daviderl.com/ .   
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   > > http://daviderl31.blogspot.com/   
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   > Of all the proposed spin-offs, I think Ripper is the most viable now.   
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   > Giles won't have aged so obivously as the younger characters, so there   
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   > will be more continuity. I'm visualising something a bit melancholy,   
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   > downbeat and character-driven, with sparing use of special effects. A   
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   > sort of Inspector Morse with vampires.   
      
   In the comic books, which are supposed to be canon, wasn't Giles killed by   
   Angel ?   
      
   Andre   
      
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