 The character of Anya is killed suddenly and violently in the final episode, Chosen. Many fans were disappointed with her death - feeling that it had happened to quickly or that her death wasn’t honoured enough by the Scoobies at the end of the episode. Emma Caulfield, who played Anya, had the following to say about her character’s death at the Starfury Fusion Event in Blackpool, England, 2004: “I don’t think I’d change the way Anya died. It was so harsh and out of the blue. When I read it, ‘What?’ it just seemed like there was no build-up, you didn’t see it coming; I liked that. And I liked that she died doing good, she kind of really had come into her own, which I think made it more sad. I knew I was going to die but I didn’t know it was going to be like that.” |
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| Added: | › 25th August 2004 |
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November 22nd, 2005 at 2:34 pm
I cried….
and they could have made a spin off about Anya being a vengance demon… how funny would that be?
November 22nd, 2005 at 3:55 pm
Haha, that would be great! :D
But I think Angel makes a better show in the end. He has a much broodier past they can work with and make stories of.
November 22nd, 2005 at 7:15 pm
Yeah I know…
but they could have made a comedy around Anya’s character…
about cheating guys and girls wanting revenge… would be funny….
I do hope Emma comes back soon to our tv screen… she always make me smile
November 23rd, 2005 at 7:23 pm
Like sequels/prequels, spin-offs are generally terrible, with the following exceptions*: The Jeffersons, Mork and Mindy, Laverne and Shirley, Law and Order: SVU, Green Acres, and The Simpsons.
*I’m not making a case for the quality of these shows overall, just thinking of how they compare to the original and how entertaining I personally found them. There may be others. Angel is not one of them.
November 23rd, 2005 at 10:31 pm
You’re not a fan of Angel? I like it but don’t think it’s quality was as good as Buffy - it seemed too patchy. It’s episodes veered between humour and dark subjects and never seemed to find a comfortable place between as Buffy did.
Saying this, one of my all-time favourite scenes is the demon seen in a sewer (forget the episode name) who appears to be breathing heavily and with menace but is actually just finishing his soda was a straw.
November 23rd, 2005 at 10:32 pm
Did I really just say soda? Where am I from all of a sudden?
November 23rd, 2005 at 10:41 pm
After the first season, I couldn’t get into Angel.
November 23rd, 2005 at 10:50 pm
what do you normally call it? i call it soda, my boyfriend calls it pop. a lot of people just say *coke* generically. people in massachusetts around my nana’s “time” called it tonic.
November 24th, 2005 at 5:10 am
I call it disgusting. I hate drinking that much sugar - and the bubbles…just unatural!
November 24th, 2005 at 7:47 am
I’m from Georgia and we just call it Coke.
November 24th, 2005 at 9:58 am
The episode with the soda (?) drinking demon is called That Old Gang of Mine and is one of my favourite Angel episodes.
It’s a good Gunn episode and I like conversation that happens with Angel & Gunn at the end of the episode:
Gunn: “No matter what else, I think I proved that you can trust me when I could have killed you and I didn’t.”
Angel: “No. You’ll prove that I can trust you when the day comes that you have to kill me - and you do.”
November 24th, 2005 at 4:19 pm
Yeah, but that’s because Georgia IS coke-country.
Bubbles aren’t unnatural. I drink carbonated water all the time.
November 24th, 2005 at 4:28 pm
I’m English so don’t say soda - I guess I’d just use the brand name or ’soft drink’ usually. I don’t drink them though - I’m a sparkling water girl.
November 24th, 2005 at 7:39 pm
I know that a lot of spin offs are lame…
Angel was kinda good… not as good as buffy… but what made it good for me was that Buffy characters did come to Angel (Darla, Drusilla, Harmony, Faith, Oz & ofcourse Cordy)
but I hope Emma comes back with another show (not something like Buffy just another comedy or something like that…
November 24th, 2005 at 8:28 pm
Angel let me down, not just because I wanted it to be as good as Buffy, but because I felt that it had a lot of potential in its own right and it didn’t live up to its potential. I liked Doyle though.
November 24th, 2005 at 8:33 pm
yeah its a shame that doyle died in the show… and the actor in real life…
but the thing that made me want 2 buy the angel dvd’s was actually… Cordelia…
November 25th, 2005 at 7:23 am
I love Angel (I like it almost as much as Buffy the Vampire Slayer), yet I really hated it when characters from BTVS showed up on Angel (aside from Faith.) Also, I don’t think Angel was all that good in season one, but became great with the change in direction in season two (helped largely by the introduction of many new characters that were not from the other show.) Also, mairceridwen, you’re not wrong about this being Coke country. You never here the word soda around here.
November 25th, 2005 at 11:20 am
Mairceridwen what spin offs are you talking about we dont (unfortunatly) see anything unless americans think its good.
Australians only make lame ass drama shows. We have some good comedians though.
Also we do the same as Jess brand name soft drink or fizzy drink.
November 25th, 2005 at 4:02 pm
I attend Emory, which is nicknamed Coca-Cola University because they fund our endowment.
Bad Spinoffs include (but are not limited to):
Joey, Just the Ten of Us, Joanie loves Chachi, Trapper John, MD*, Rhoda, Time of Your Life, Family Matters, A Man Called Hawk, Booker, The Ropers, Three’s a Crowd, and The Lone Gunman (which, in my opinion could have been good).
*This was not actually a bad show, it just PALED in comparison to its parent show, which was just about the best thing television ever produced (M*A*S*H)
Speaking of Happy Days: Pat Morita, Rest In Peace
By the way, I’m not that old (though probably one of the oldest posters here), I just watched a lot of syndicated television and Nick at Nite. Also, I used a website to jog my memory a bit.
November 25th, 2005 at 4:30 pm
Jess, something is wrong, when I go to the Comments page, I just get characters….
November 25th, 2005 at 4:33 pm
Sorry - characters briefly took over the site - should be ok now…
November 25th, 2005 at 4:35 pm
ok. and sorry to use this thread to make the point, i just didn’t know where else to post it.
November 25th, 2005 at 4:35 pm
no problem
November 27th, 2005 at 10:57 pm
wow theres only 3 there I konw and 2 of them that I watched. But what prequels and sequels are you talking about in relationship to the simpsons?
November 28th, 2005 at 1:00 am
I think Emma is way too good for sit-coms. The laugh track would just cheapen her comedic genius.
February 10th, 2006 at 2:19 pm
but back to the point of this thread…the way anya died…i just thought it was similar to the way wesley died in angel, a show which i thought was funnier than buffy (seen the episode smile time anyone?)
February 11th, 2006 at 6:37 am
Love Smile Time, husband and kids just gave me the replica battle damaged Angel puppet for my birthday (they are SO good to me) Hate it when Wesley died, but at least Llyria was holding him. Anya just died so quickly. Actually, it was similar to the way Wash died in Serenity - which sucked (the death part), it happened so quickly and no one really got to have a full reaction (just like Anya)
February 11th, 2006 at 6:55 am
Oh God. The first time I watched Chosen: bawled like a baby. But in a very mature way. And when Wash died, more bawling. It was wrong, sick and wrong. He was halfway through his “I am a leaf on the wind” thing and … ah. And Wesley, all he wanted to see was Fred and Illyria did the thing and then blew Cyvus Vail’s head the hell up. Sweet Illyria-type revenge.
February 11th, 2006 at 7:27 am
I still haven’t watched Serenity again since my first viewing because of Wash’s death, leaf in the wind (damn I am still angry he died)
Same with me and Chosen. And Wesley. And Fred. Joss is an evil bastard sometimes, isnt’ he? Now I’m just angry at him for taking these beloved characters from. Sometimes I pretend that they didn’t die…do you think that makes me strange?
February 11th, 2006 at 9:07 am
No. I fast forward through the parts of Serenity and Chosen when Anya and Wash die. I still haven’t had the chance to buy season five of Angel so I just don’t watch those episodes when they are on TV. I made my mom and sister watch Serenity with me but they talked through it asking dumb questions (”Which one is from Buffy?” “Wait, who died?” “Is he hot?”) and they felt no emotions when people started dying. And I have a love/hate relationship with Joss, depending on the episode or scene or whatever. I still can’t believe he killed Anya and Wes and Wash (and Fred and Tara … and Molly and Amanda, the 2 bestest potentials ever).
February 11th, 2006 at 9:16 am
And don’t even get me started on him killing Jenny and Spike (the fans were not aware he was going to Angel for a few months). The death of Wash was so sudden and I cried. It was just so sad and sudden. We love Joss for the same reason we hate him: He is a really awesome storyteller!
February 11th, 2006 at 9:20 am
Well said Abby!
February 11th, 2006 at 8:14 pm
Thank you!