From: daviderl31@yahoo.com   
      
   "Andre"  wrote in message   
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   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.   
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   >>In the comic books, which are supposed to be canon, wasn't Giles killed by   
   >>Angel ?   
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   >>Andre   
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   From the article at the link --   
   In Dark Horse's Buffy the Vampire Slayer comic book series, Giles was killed   
   off, but later resurrected with the help of Angel and Faith. However, it   
   didn't got exactly as everybody hoped. Giles was brought back with his mind   
   intact, but in the body of a preteen. Talk about a role reversal!   
      
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