On 3/29/2022 8:09 AM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
> On 3/28/2022 10:12 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>> shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:
>>> On Mon, 28 Mar 2022 21:15:48 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, 28 Mar 2022 20:54:25 -0700, Ian J. Ball <IJBall@mac.invalid>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 2022-03-29 02:44:25 +0000, anim8rfsk said:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Alan Smithee <alms@last.inc> wrote:
>>>>>>>> https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/ent/amber-benson-buffy-the-vampire-slayer-return.html
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Amber Benson opened up for the first time about why she chose to
>>>>>>>> not
>>>>>>>> return to the Scoobs during an interview for the new book Into
>>>>>>>> Every
>>>>>>>> Generation a Slayer Is Born: How Buffy Staked Our Hearts by Evan
>>>>>>>> Ross
>>>>>>>> Katz (via Comic Book). She said that along with the offer to
>>>>>>>> bring her
>>>>>>>> back for a brief appearance in the season 7 episode
>>>>>>>> “Conversations with
>>>>>>>> Dead People” — in which she wouldn’t have played herself, but a
>>>>>>>> disguised version of the season’s villain, the First Evil —
>>>>>>>> there were
>>>>>>>> ideas on the table to actually bring her character back from the
>>>>>>>> dead.
>>>>>>>> According to Benson, there were a few reasons why she said no.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Which mostly seem to boil down to ridiculous demands on her part.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> My understanding is that she hates Alyson Hannigan's guts - does the
>>>>>> article make any mention of that?
>>>>>
>>>>> It does not. It says that she had issues with someone on the show and
>>>>> she was in a good place when she put the show behind her. It doesn't
>>>>> say who it was.
>>>>>
>>>>> “I had had some issues with somebody on the show, and it had kind of
>>>>> come to a head as I was getting ready to leave,” Benson recalled.
>>>>> "Leaving the show was sad because there are some of the crew and the
>>>>> writers and some of the cast that I just adore, but I had made my
>>>>> peace with that person and the show and I was done: 'I'm leaving
>>>>> everything in a good place. I don't need to come back.'"
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> So it boils down to
>>>> “I didn’t come back because there was somebody I didn’t want to see
>>>> again
>>>> and they wouldn’t promise me that if I came back they would never
>>>> ever kill
>>>> me off again and I would be there forever“
>>>>
>>>> Which makes no freaking sense to me.
>>>
>>> The last part makes perfect sense as Charisma Carpenter came back
>>> under the same agreement and got killed off that very episode. So
>>> Amber had a reasonable concern that she might be signing on for just
>>> one episode. That combined with the time getting in the way of her
>>> first directing job for the show/movie/whatever that she wrote.
>>>
>>
>> But she’s saying that there’s somebody there she doesn’t want to see
>> but if
>> she does have to see them she wants to make sure she sees them a lot.
>>
> Or "If I'm going to come back it had better be for long enough to pay
> enough for me to put up with someone I don't get along with.  Not a show
> up for a day or two, have to deal with them and then get fired situation."
>

Exactly!

> And why are you expecting people to be coherent, consistent or in any
> way even vaguely rational?
>