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Marti Noxon talks about Point Pleasant DVDs!
13 episodes, a crazy one among them, "dog-pile" and these 3 discs cost $39.98! |
`Point Pleasant' DVDs include series' wild finish
By R.D. Heldenfels
 I told producer Marti Noxon that I had finally gotten to see the thirteenth episode of Point Pleasant. She laughed and said, ``Oh, yeah, the crazy one.''
No kidding. On view in a new DVD set, it has violence, horror, some laughs, at least one inside joke (Noxon's mother is an extra in a key scene) and a flamboyant unleashing of evil on the world that will both make you glad the story is over and wish for more.
It's so wild because by the time the show made that episode, everyone knew it would not be back for a second season.
The early reviews had been consistently harsh (a ``dog-pile,'' Noxon said), and the ratings low. Fox pretty much stopped promoting it after three telecasts, she recalled, and the network pulled the show off the air entirely with five episodes unshown.
Still, Noxon is happy about Tuesday's DVD release of Point Pleasant: The Complete Series (Fox, 13 episodes, three discs, $39.98).
``I felt like we got better as the show went along,'' said Noxon, whose other credits include Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. ``We found our sea legs five or six episodes in, we found the tone of the show after a a bit of a rocky start.''
The series involved Christina Nickson (Elisabeth Harnois), a young woman washed ashore in a troubled small town, and bringing a lot more trouble with her. In the beginning, working off another producer's concept, Noxon found herself dealing with something that was part horror, part soap opera.
``It was a concept that I hadn't fully gotten a handle on,'' she said. ``But we found out that it worked when it was horror or darkly funny.''
She especially enjoyed making Christina out-and-out evil, and then forcing the other characters to deal with it.
One disappointment: The only DVD extra is a making-of segment done before the show had even aired. It's a big contrast to a new complete Buffy set being released on Nov. 15, which adds still more to the copious extras from Buffy's single-season releases.
``Even we are getting tired of hearing ourselves talk,'' Noxon said.
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