Angel 100th Episode

[Karen]

www.cityofangel.com/behindTheScenes/bts4/100pressDay.html

Blood frosting & 100 episodes later


Reaching episode one hundred is a massive feat for any television series. Many never even come close to this landmark. Like it's parent show Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel recently became another one of the memorable shows to create over one hundred different stories. Over four and a half years Angel has certainly come a long way. From his brooding, self-exiled days of yore, to raising his son Connor, Angel has been on quite a ride. He has battled past loves, evil law firms, vicious demons of all shapes and sizes, and even had a few laughs along the way. Now he's running the base of his sworn enemy. Executive Producers Joss Whedon and David Greenwalt created a show strong enough to establish it's own presence despite being a spin-off. With the help of talented writers like Tim Minear and David Fury, they succeeded in pleasing both fans and studios alike with consistent entertaining television. Now, one hundred episodes later, Angel is stronger than ever and shows no signs of slowing down.

Interviews with the cast (and Charisma C, too.). A few spoilers, but not many.

[Julia, wrought iron-y]

Karen said:

www.cityofangel.com/behindTheScenes/bts4/100pressDay.html

Glad you posted the link; I'm working my way, slowly, through the interviews. COA has a lot of information but unfortunately the writing, editing, and formatting makes reading anything on their site a job rather than a pleasure.

David Boreanaz's take on the job of TV director is interesting.

Julia, Monday, meh

[Dev(Rob)]

David is directing 1 or 2 episodes of Angel this season isn't he?

[Karen]

Julia said:

Glad you posted the link; I'm working my way, slowly, through the interviews. COA has a lot of information but unfortunately the writing, editing, and formatting makes reading anything on their site a job rather than a pleasure.

David Boreanaz's take on the job of TV director is interesting.

Julia, Monday, meh

It sounds like the cast kind of takes advantage of the directors, leaving them in the lurch, etc., but then realized it was David's first time - but it felt like he'd been doing it longer, he was so good at it.

Here's what JM had to say about DB:

Since his arrival, vicious false rumors have spread over the Internet about James taking over on set. Scoffing at the rumors, he explains that things couldn’t be farther from the truth, “between David and I functionally? There are no sparks at all. I am in awe of this guy. He is the same guy that I met a long time ago filming Buffy. This guy that broke a fucking two by four with his head! He was doing a gag where they had a wire on his back. It went a little wrong and he went through with his head and broke it! He’s bleeding and he’s like nothing, he’s hiding the blood and he just wanted to get the next take. He’s the same guy,” he said.

Not only have David’s acting chops impressed him, but his directing abilities as well, “he’s so good. He doesn’t know this really, but he’s so good that we forgot he was a first time director! We all got lazy and kind of left him in a ditch a bit, and had to remind ourselves ‘shit! David! We should be here for David because he’s really a first time director.’ He had the quality of such confidence and knowing what he wanted to do one step at a time that it was like working with Jefferson Kibbee, one of our directors who has been doing it for thirty or thirty five years.”

David has been so impressive that the crew has been approaching James to lobby for David to direct more, “the crew is coming up to me and pressuring me to suggest that David gets another episode or two this year when we’re really tired so that we can have a strong director and we don’t have to stress out more than we need to. Hollywood stars are supposed to be spoiled and supposed to not be able to think of anybody but them, and that’s so not David at all.”

However, directing isn’t a path that James necessarily wants to pursue, “I’m more interested in producing, frankly. As I see how things work in television specifically. I think the things that interest me are the larger arcs of characters, finding larger components, and deciding what the story is that we’re going to tell, and how we tell it.”

I also liked the fact that Charisma was there. I hope they can bring her back sometime in the future somehow. I really miss the old Cordy.

[Karen]

Dev said:

David is directing 1 or 2 episodes of Angel this season isn't he?

He directed one already. I haven't read anything about another, but the cast enjoyed him directing them.

Here's what he had to say:

This season has also marked another milestone for David - he directed his very first episode, “I’ve always been fascinated with the camera, the movement, communicating with other actors, being in that position to know what they want to hear and what they don’t want to hear, and knowing how they feel at certain times. Directing is really about telling somebody to put applesauce on the table,” he explained. “You’re directing a prescription for an already prescribed show. You have your limitations but you can put your mark on it. I feel like I did that with this show that I directed, but then again I’m not the show runner, I don’t get the final cut. I will have a Director’s cut that will be much longer,” he said with a laugh.

[Sara]

Links to various articles about Angel's 100th episode, provided by Julia:

tv.zap2it.com/tveditorial/tve_main/1,1002,274|85822|1|,00.html

zap2it article on the 100th episode, including James statements quoted in LJ link Nan posted in Part 104.

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www.scifi.com/sfw/advance/26_interview.html

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Very Spoilery, and very funny!

www.comicscontinuum.com/stories/0401/31/index.htm

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www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/television/feature_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=2080596

Minor spoilers, including mention of 5.12, 13, and 14

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www.scifi.com/sfw/current/screen.html#thetop

Does not spoil for ending

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www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/television/feature_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=2080593

Profiles of actors in 100th Episode

[Sara]

Dev's reply re the 100th episode actor profiles

From the bit on Amy Acker:

Amy Acker thinks it's time her character, Fred Burkle, gets a makeover. "I'm a big proponent of 'evil Fred,'" Acker says. "I'd like to be mean. I think it's bound to happen one of these days."

[Sara]

From Julia:

Dev said:

From the bit on Amy Acker:

Does look as if she may get her wish...

[Sara]

First posted by Deborah:

www.eonline.com/Gossip/Kristin/Archive2004/040206.html

I drove myself crazy trying to find this again after reading it last week. Finally realized that I'd posted about it and was able to search it out.

LeeH originally posted the link for this on the main thread but I just wanted to save it here.

deborah

[Sara]

Posted by Nan:

There's a fine interview about the 100th Episode involving DB, Joss, JM, and Christian Kane (Lindsey) at Sci-Fi weekly.

It has some spoilers for 5.8 - 5.12. If you're spoiler-avoidant, wait to read it until 5.12 has aired (first Wed. in February).

www.scifi.com/sfw/advance/26_interview.html