12-05-2009, 11:21 AM
Doc wrote:
[quote=estnyc]
I'd say it's typical Fox; cancelling something just as it's getting good.
I think that JW sometimes needs a kick in the butt to get the story moving.
Look at the "Angel McBeal" episodes of "Angel," for example. Until they got news that the show was canceled, it had become a stifling series of character studies with cheap and almost invariable sets. Then all of a sudden they finally did something interesting with Fred's character, ruined Wes, put a damaged Gunn in a hell-dimension, got Angel all evil-like, etc.
Whedon works best under pressure.
There were probably character developments he had planned further down the line. Once cancelled, he put them into play, rather than lose them . . . :dunno: