 There are a few alternative Chosen scripts on the internet with many differences, including: Xander dying to save Dawn; Anya living to see the end and Dawn being the third Slayer. In the alternatives, there are many extra guest stars including Kendra. Sarah Michelle Gellar told Entertainment Weekly in 2003 that she knew of Joss’s grand plan for the show: “Joss has had certain episodes planned from the get-go. I knew Dawn was coming two years in advance… Willow was always supposed to go bad. Willow was supposed to go bad a year before she did, but Joss loved Tara and Willow, so that story line was pushed a year… I honestly believe his original intentions was to put Buffy and Xander together. I really do believe that.” |
| Source: | › Entertainment Weekly, March 2003 |
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| Added: | › 18th November 2004 |
| Updated: | › 29th March, 2006 |
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May 13th, 2005 at 4:26 pm
Xanders a cutie but hes no Angel.
June 7th, 2005 at 2:24 pm
Angel is lame. His hair grows straight up and he’s bloody stupid.
June 8th, 2005 at 7:12 pm
Nice quote! haha
June 14th, 2005 at 8:57 pm
Spike:”Angel’s dull as a table lamp. And we have very different coloring”
July 6th, 2005 at 2:55 pm
Another great Quote. Maybe we could have a quote page.
July 13th, 2005 at 11:50 pm
I doubt that there is a script out there that Joss wrote that that included Xander being killed. He was originaly going to kill everyone in the last episode but then decided he needed to at least keep the four core Scooby Gang members alive for a sign of hope. So, it seems pretty unlikely that he would have thought to just kill Xander.
July 14th, 2005 at 7:52 am
I saw a script where i think dawn died (which would have been much better) but it just looked as though the person who had posted it had just taken Anyas name out and replaced it with dawns
July 14th, 2005 at 9:33 am
Here’s a link to an alternative script which has Xander’s death. The source of the script is uncertain - did it come from Buffy writers or not?
July 14th, 2005 at 10:32 am
I have read the alternate script in which Xander dies. The lines are pretty much the same as the ones between Andrew and Xander about Anya’s death.
DAWN: He was incredible. He died saving my life.
ANYA :That’s my guy. Always doing the stupid thing.
There is also a bit where Dawn steals the amulet and thinks it’s her job to save the world but Spike stops her.
Also, The First becomes corporeal in the alt. script and tries to sing to Spike to activate the trigger but Spike says “I dont like that song anymore” and punches The First.
July 14th, 2005 at 9:07 pm
The fact that The First becomes corporeal mean it won the battle, right? Isn’t that what they said? Also, that means they would have been able to kill The First and thusly, eliminating all evil. That seems a little to over the top and unrealilistic.
July 18th, 2005 at 8:38 pm
lol Xander? Yeh I heard about that, I heard that The original plan was to put Buffy and Xander together, But Buffy/Angel and Buffy/Spike was so popular that they stuck with them.
meh… Xanders ok, But hes not as good as Spike!
July 18th, 2005 at 10:32 pm
no-one is as good as spike!
July 21st, 2005 at 12:54 pm
That other script that says that Xander dies just seems to take out “girl” and put in “guy” for xander.
I just think it was there so people wouldn’t guess the ending. Although i didn’t think he would kill off any of the scoobies. I was hoping for it tho.
December 27th, 2005 at 1:23 pm
I wish Anya did live to see the end. I hated the fact that none of the Scoobie’s asked where Anya was , or say something to Xander about her. A simple “I’m really sorry about Anya” would have been nice, but nothing, A bit, fat, stinking nothing.
If I sound bitter, it’s because I am.
January 30th, 2006 at 9:25 pm
I totally agree AnyaRocks! Anya was after all fighting with scoobies since season 4 (or at least season 5 )and she was a main character on the show.Don`t get me wrong because i absolutely love “Chosen” and it still gives me the shivers when i watch it ..(and i`ve seen it many times). But you could`ve missed Anyas death if you happened to blink just then! I just thought: well, was that it? Good thing i got it all on DVD now : )
May 10th, 2006 at 7:39 am
that alt script is fake, and the names were changed from ‘anya’ to ‘xander’ one part of this was missed as you can tell from the following:
DAWN (to Anya)
He was incredible. He died saving my life.
(They all realize…)
XANDER (welling up)
That’s my guy. Always doing the stupid thing.
shouldnt say Xander welling up, should say anya, so yeh, its a fake.
May 10th, 2006 at 8:09 am
Hmm, if Sarah thought that Buffy and Xander were supposed to get together, she must have been really dissapointed when Joss said no to the Xan/Buffy relationship idea for season 7.
May 18th, 2006 at 5:26 am
There’s no way that a Buffy/Xander relationship would have worked by the time they’d got to season 7, Xander was so much the ‘protective big brother’ figure that anything else would just have been unbelievable ickyness, besides Buffy belonged with Spike!
June 11th, 2006 at 5:53 pm
Honestly I was slightly dissapointed at the amount of people that lived at the end of Chosen. I believe that Buffy, Willow, Xander, Giles and dawn should have been the only ones left. I mean, Buffy got her ass kicked by that Uber Vamp in the previous episode, but now Robin Wood and even Dawn can take a few out? What’s that all about? Death to all that isnt the original four (and Dawn, cause shes lovely looking).