[1], While studying at University of California, Hastings College of the Law, Lindsey was recruited by Holland Manners to the law firm Wolfram & Hart. Lindsay Crouse's full name is Lindsay Ann Crouse and her nickname is Lindsay Crouse. The person in charge was Maggie Walsh who was also Buffy's professor. Crouse viewed her character "no nonsense, and she seems to be a real teacher. the middle of season 7 I wouldn't mind that one bit. Better safe than splattered.> > At least one traditional legend we have (as of now) been told is false:> several people in episodes have said that leprechauns do not exist. Buffy the Vampire Slayer: How many seasons of Buffy are there? The fleur-de-lis bracelet that Lindsey wears throughout his time on the show is actually a bracelet that Christian Kane wears to remind him of his mother who is from New Orleans. She's rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. I remember one early episode where Walsh was shown watching Buffy and Riley in bed together, and thought at the time that, if she were somehow sexually obsessed with Riley, she might have used Initiative resources, including other chipped demons and vampires, to take Buffy out of the picture, probably beginning when she sent Buffy out alone with the defective weapon against the demon. That was what irked me at first about Tara. Despite this, Angel finally defeated Lindsey and his comrades completed a ritual that dissolved the tattoos that protected Lindsey from the Senior Partners, and he was dragged away through a portal. reasons and the Big Bad arc had to be redesigned around Adam. Lindsey was eager to have Angel sire Darla, thus saving her. The Watcher's Guide is indeed one of the published interviews I was citing about Crouse's departure and Walsh's fate. Maggie was supposed to be the season's Big Bad.Maggie was supposed to drive a wedge between Buffy and Riley. Since Buffy is meant to be the central character surely thedrama should focus on a her rather than Riley. However, his hew hand began to act up, writing "kill" whenever Lindsey didn't concentrate. And Angel did that. lets face it. Lindsey also worked with the ex-Watcher Rutherford Sirk to fake an addendum to the Shanshu Prophecy that the vampire with a soul must drink from the Cup of Perpetual Torment after apparently causing a disruption of reality that Eve claims is the result of there being two vampire champions with souls in an attempt to provoke a conflict between Angel and Spike that would result in Angel's death. MORNING READS Ripe and smooth: This village thinks it has. [9], They learned that Angel had nothing and the footage consisted of nothing but Cordelia and Wesley messing around; it not only embarrassed them when they acted suspiciously to stop the footage being shown, but it allowed the demon to take the money and return it to Anne. The vampires in Buffy don't exactly conform to traditional> standards. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. --Doctor Who ************************************************************************, I wonder. And even if they were silver, maybe he just had a LoneRanger complex. I read something about this in the official Buffy Magazine years ago, don't remember what it said other than Maggie was going to play a much bigger part in Season 4 originally. ", "North Shore Film Festival wraps up on May 8 and 9. Fans struggled to connect with Riley when he was first introduced to the show, as he was seen as just another of Buffy's romances. On the other hand, with only Lindsey and Lilah left of Wolfram & Hart's Special Projects Team, their rivalry reached an all-time high as the two start a power struggle for the vice-presidency of the team as at the time neither of them was deemed fit to take the title. Sunnydale in further> episodes before it was all revealed to us. She produced the Emmy-nominated Opinion Video series "Equal Play," which brought widespread reform to women's sports. It was an experiment that the Government wanted to test was possible or not, and they put Maggie in charge. However, Angel knew that Lindsey could never be trusted, and he had secretly instructed Lorne to assassinate Lindsey once the Sahrvin demons were eliminated. Personally I think> > ASH's departure this season was even more devastating.> >>> I wonder. In many stories, it takes silver to kill a werewolf when it's in wolf form but the other 26 or so days of the month when they are human, they can be killed just like anyone else can. Her maternal grandparents were Pauline (Ives) and author and educator John Erskine. Perceiving that Buffy poses a risk to the project, Walsh tries to kill Buffy by sending her on a mission on which she is ambushed by two demons released from the Initiative's holding cells. Returning to his apartment, Lindsey found that Darla had left town, taking all her clothes with her. There were indications that the Initiative existed from the> > first episode. (The writers could change their minds, of course, and makethem crucial to the season seven finale, say, but that's the currentcanon.) [9], After Angel violently burnt Darla and Drusilla, Lindsay, still infatuated with Darla, let her recuperate at his apartment. It should have been layered a bit with fans even sympathizing with Walsh. Crouse was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the 1984 movie Places in the Heart. Walsh initially thinks that Buffy can be a useful ally to the Initiative, but soon takes a dislike to her unpredictability and unwelcome curiosity, especially with regards to the "314 Project". Unknown to many in the Initiative, Walsh is also involved in Project 314, a secret program within the Initiative that is creating a hybrid demon-humanoid-mechanoid (demonoid) known as Adam. Prior to having his powers stripped from him by Angel's team, he displayed the following powers. [citation needed] She received her acting training at HB Studio[7] in New York City. And when he came back I realized that I really missed Riley.". If I recall, was not one of Sunday's minions hit by a> > taser by a then unknown assailant? I think she/they (the initiative) wanted to create a "super-being" who could fight crime, kill demons etc, and then the scientists could continue to use the demon parts to create more "super-beings". Although his deception is exposed and the Cup revealed to be a fake, Lindsey's plans were nevertheless served as Angel begins to doubt himself after losing to Spike. In an interview from back in 2018, he said: "It was one of my very first jobs, it was certainly my first big job. Cordy (Charisma Carpenter) was introduced in the first episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.She was a teen drama archetype: the hot, rich, mean girl with a slew of sycophantic followers . Lindsey and Eve. I really do believe that." Why did Buffy go to LA in season 4? Among her films was a starring role in House of Games, the 1987 film directed and written by her then-husband David Mamet, in which she plays Margaret Ford, a psychiatrist who is intrigued by the art of the con. After Angel left, Lindsey informed the firm that there was "a new player in town. She also had a leading role in the 1987 film House of Games, which was directed by her then-husband David Mamet. Cameras installed in Riley's room allow her to spy on Buffy and Riley while they have sex, and later to hear Buffy ask Riley about the 314 Project. I was really creeped out when he reanimated the corpses of Walsh and the other doctor. Personally I thinkASH's departure this season was even more devastating. (Actually, in _Wild at Heart_ Oz still hasscratches from his first encounter with Veruca several hours later, sohe can't heal too fast. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. But to be honest, i think her story played out the way it should have been. I really do believe that." Why did Buffy go to LA in season 4? It is a series with humble beginnings (the movie, starring Kristy Swanson, was a minor cult . Maybe it useda wierd calibre bullet. You don't think she's just pining for the fjords? After Riley learns that Buffy is the Slayer, they inform Walsh of her role. Lindsay Crouse ( @lindsaycrouse) is a writer and producer in Opinion. He might have requirements(other than material) that aren't easily met with store bought bullets. [citationneeded]. I still don'tthink he was; he was a fellow victim and should never have been playedas a big bad. Blucas, now 48, joined the cast of Buffy in 1999 and this was his first major TV role, with the show acting as a springboard to a long-running TV and film career. Great actresses like Glenn Close and Susan Sarandonthere's nothing written for anyone over a certain age. I really do believe that." Why did Buffy go to LA in season 4? [2], In a final confrontation between Angel and Lindsey, the two buried the hatchet, and Lindsey warned him of the games Wolfram & Hart was trying to play. Darla, however, secretly used his feelings to gain information from Wolfram & Hart to obtain a mystical ring from the Senior Partners during the Review. Yes> I was that sad :-) and in those there were certain facts that don't appear> in Buffy>. In my opinion, she was more of an appendage then a self-standing character when she was first introduced. Vampires were more primeval and didn't get emotionally involved withpeople or other vampires for that matter, There are more differences but I have forgotten the rest :-). (The> writers could change their minds, of course, and make them crucial to> the season seven finale, say, but that's the current canon.) The demon however, worked against them by causing a distraction with Angel so Anne could show a tape, suspected to have incriminating evidence against them. Maybe my brain is just not functioning today, but who is this Ash person? Home of the Daily and Sunday Express. If Seth Green handn't left, it would have been him lying dead on the bedroom floor in "Seeing Red". That was also the episode where Willow and her mother, Sheila, have an argument about Willow's involvement with the occult. Whedon discussed with Nicholas Brendon and Sarah Michelle Gellar the idea of Buffy and Xander ending up together at the end of the final season, which the actors reportedly agreed. "This is a matter of opinion--I disagree. She> > said the Initiative storyline was something that they pulled out of> > their hats at the last minute. . As near as I can tell, there really are no "traditional" standards for vampires, at least if by that you mean "going back into actual myths and legends." During the day vampires had to sleep in a coffin with its native soil init and would return to a death like state.3. (Presumably Watchers and other supernatural experts knew more). Crouse viewed her character "no nonsense, and she seems to be a real teacher. Apr 21, 2022. [INSIGHT]Buffy: How old was Sarah Michelle Gellar in Buffy The Vampire Slayer? Adam activates the chip Walsh had inserted into Riley's heart, making him biddable to Adam's command. I'm not sure, but for the way her arc progresses and then suddenly stops, it seems to me like there must have been more to the backstage story. Crouse was on her way to audition for Bob Rafelson's 1981 remake of The Postman Always Rings Twice, and jokingly Mamet told Crouse to tell Rafelson that "he was a fool if he didn't hire me to write the screenplay." An interesting thing about Joss is he's not very diplomatic, I like that about him. ActuallyI think it would have upset me more to see Oz get shot infront of Willow. Professor Maggie Walsh is introduced in Season Four, as Buffy's Psychology professor at the University of California, Sunnydale, but is later revealed as the leader of the government-controlled Initiative, a military project intent on capturing, studying, and modifying the behavior of various demons. His relationship with Buffy also hit the rocks after he realised she could not love him in the way he wanted, as she was scared of emotional vulnerability. Lindsay Crouse is an actress who portrayed Maggie Walsh on the Buffy the Vampire Slayer television series. I would say "scheduling conflicts" is the Hollywood answer. you never know, they could have bonded over him seeing her nude. > >> Though Cain, the werewolf hunter, did make a point of using silver> >> bullets> > > > We see Cain making his own bullets, but nothing is said about what they> > were made of.> > And why would he make his own bullets, then? When Faith made the deal known to him, Angel broke into Lindsey's though was quickly caught out when Lindsey walked in. It wasMaggie who was supposed to tell Riley about Angel to humiliate Buffy infront of everyone at the Initiative. "Christian Kane (lindsey) - Horror-web.com Interview. Lindsay Ann Crouse (born May 12, 1948) is an American actress. I remember when I was a kid, I read a lot of vampire comics. [sic]. Especially since he's been in the show from almostthe start. Writing and acting. [citationneeded], Lindsey and Eve contrive a situation where Spike saves Angel from a demonic parasite (placed on an unconscious Angel by Eve), which simultaneously disheartened Angel, galvanized Spike, and adds weight and veracity to the claims made by "Doyle"/Lindsey. Better safe than splattered. The Big Bang Theory finale: Who did Sarah Michelle Gellar play? Sarah Michelle Gellar. Gellar has stated she believes Whedon's original intention was "was to put Xander and Buffy together. I think the way they went made it much scarier, though. The three hired then-renegade Slayer Faith to assassinate him, promising to free her from her police charges and a doubled amount of payment. I'm not sure I'd have been desperately interested in the Maggie/Rileyrelationship. and Radcliffe College in 1970,[5] Crouse began her performing career as a modern and jazz dancer, but she soon switched to acting and made her Broadway debut in Much Ado About Nothing in 1972. Buffy wouldn't have been his enemy if she'd been all 'Frankenstien me up, Doc'. Since werewolves are fictional, there's no universal "rule" about how they must be portrayed. 2. I mean, it's the year 2000 people, we almost thought the world was going to end because computers couldn't cope with the millennium bug and the Big Bad is a mutant hybrid demon with a built-in dial-up modem. On more than one occasion, he joined forces with the Angel Investigations team and helped them stop some of Wolfram & Hart's particularly amoral agendas and operations, such as their plan to assassinate three children[1] or their mystical transplant operation. She said that she was rathersurprised and disappointed uponhearing abou ther character's death. DonnaMy opinions might have changed, but not the fact that I am right. There were other indications that an unknown force was at work in and around U.C. At first he enjoyed his new privileges, able to play his guitar again. [1][2], I guess it's fair to say you've never seen anything like real poverty. Maggie was supposed to be the season's Big Bad.> Maggie was supposed to drive a wedge between Buffy and Riley. Werewolves and silver bullets could be another false thing. You don't AngelLindsey's last words, Lindsey and Angel allied once more in an effort to stop the Circle. Vampires Don't bleed or get injured5. Both Seth Green and Lindsay Crouse bailing in the same season meant theyhad to scramble. I loved Eliza Dushku, but she got a greatending on Angel so I don't mind her absence. The two had met during the production on Slap Shot. I'm talking dirt poor, no shoes, no toilet, six of us kids in a room and come flu season that went down to four. I liked Adam as a Big Bad though, because as well as being scary to look at it and wicked strong, it wasn't like he was actually Evil; he was just the creation of someone else's mind. Crouse was born in New York City, the daughter of Anna (ne Erskine)[1] and Russel Crouse, a playwright. [16], Lindsey was incarcerated in a Holding Dimension that emulated suburbia, complete with a wife and a son. I see that you're either the one with the power or you're powerless.Lindsey McDonald, Lindsey McDonald was a lawyer at Wolfram & Hart and both an enemy and ally of Angel Investigations. Willow was heavy into magic since season two. ", Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years, Beyond the Prairie: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder, Beyond the Prairie, Part 2: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder, "Anna E. Crouse, 97, Dies; Championed Discount Tickets for Broadway", "The Very (Very) Slow Rise of Lesbianism on TV - The New York Times", "Gloucester Stage Company plans five plays, Sunday readings for 29th season. Claiming to receive visions from the Powers That Be, he gained Spike's cooperation and trust. She> said the Initiative storyline was something that they pulled out of> their hats at the last minute. Werewolves> and silver bullets could be another false thing. Marc Blucas: The actor's first big role was in Buffy, Marc Blucas: Marc Blucas played Riley Finn. "It's always hard to be directed by someone who's close to you," Crouse says. It wasTara who got Willow down that path of heavy magic. When she seemingly killed a security guard which put her on the run, Lindsay tried to contact Angel but he was already there and hung Lindsey's neck by a string choking, wanting to know where she was but Lindsey explained that she would die if Angel didn't save her. Maggie was supposed to be the season's Big Bad.> > Maggie was supposed to drive a wedge between Buffy and Riley. Lindsey hopes that once the Senior Partners realize the folly of attempting to seduce Angel to their cause, that he will be stripped of his position at Wolfram & Hart, leaving a power vacuum which Lindsey could fill, gaining a measure of revenge on Angel. Wesley, unhappy with being forced to serve the Partners, shot those possibilities down, saying the presence of either alongside Angel would not help the Senior Partners get what they wanted, as the vampire would at worst ignore them and kill them at best. Kane has described the character as being driven by cynicism and ambition: "I still think this cat looks at the glass as being half empty. But it's not just the physical betrayal that rattles Allenby. Nike and Pregnancy: Your Questions, Answered. After graduating from the Chapin School in 1966[6] I just can't see Oz taking Tara's place. Though Cain, the werewolf hunter, did make a point of using silver bullets We see Cain making his own bullets, but nothing is said about what theywere made of. Before Angel left, Lindsey had the encounter digitally recorded and alerted the police. There were indications that the Initiative existed from the first episode. The Initiative project is shut down permanently. Not much help sorry. This is the first time I've ever heard this. In 2005, she organized an annual Buddhist educational program, originally held at the Windhover Center for the Performing Arts in Rockport, Massachusetts,[19] and then in 2010 moved to The Governor's Academy in Byfield, Massachusetts. Crouse's film career began in 1976, with small roles in television and theatrical movies. It makes no sense to me. Sunnydale in further> > episodes before it was all revealed to us.> > --. She produced the Emmy-nominated Opinion Video series "Equal Play," which brought widespread reform to women's sports. There were other indications that an> > unknown force was at work in and around U.C. Also, apparently at a convention where Jane Espenson was a panelist. Actor Blucas simply left the series as his character was written out in the year 2000. However, I just listened to her interview at the Buffering podcast and nothing of that sort came up. ----- Posted via NewsOne.Net: Free (anonymous) Usenet News via the Web ----- http://newsone.net/ -- Free reading and anonymous posting to 60,000+ groups NewsOne.Net prohibits users from posting spam. "[1], In a gender studies text, Jowett includes a section on the character, and argues the character is "masculinized by her roles as professor, scientist and leader. Adam> > was a last minute replacement as the Big Bad. A person I would really like to know!". This would at least have given Riley some character otherthan soldier boy. [13], Lindsey then initiated the next stage of his plan, making Spike corporeal again through a package sent to Spike at Wolfram & Hart. It was> Maggie who was supposed to tell Riley about Angel to humiliate Buffy in> front of everyone at the Initiative. Ooh, didn't know that. Wow, I had no idea Walsh was originally intended to be the Big Bad. Lindsay Crouse ( @lindsaycrouse) is a writer and producer in Opinion. Not according to Joss. He was eventually rescued by Angel, Spike, and Charles Gunn for information they need. Walsh was basically working on something that was inhuman, which in turn could be explained by saying that Adam was born out of the dark part of Walsh's soul/mind. Buffy: Why does Sarah Michelle Gellar not want to return for reboot? Among them was the donor of Lindsey's hand, an old friend of his from his mailroom days. When he tried to kill the aspiring actress Cordelia Chase, Angel attacked Russell at his manor to save her. -- Jukka.@hut.fi (Jukka Korpela), The answer to all questions starting with those four words is "Yes.". Manage all your favorite fandoms in one place! I'm a vampire with a soul.BUFFY: A vampire with a soul? I was seven when they took the house, just came right in and took it.Lindsey McDonald, Born into a poor and dysfunctional family in the south-central United States, Lindsey worked hard to overcome his upbringing. She> > said the Initiative storyline was something that they pulled out of, > > their hats at the last minute. I like her caustic nature, because she's not a mean person. She's like a President. Joss has said that Lindsay Crouse was difficult to work with, which led him to killing her off/reducing her role sooner. The two agreed to fight the upcoming battle together and, at the end, resolve their differences, maybe even allowing Lindsey to take a powerful position at Wolfram & Hart as "the devil [they knew]. This also explains why they didn't think to ring in some othermilitary type as the big bad. That doesn't mean that the legends are true. I've been expecting Tara to leave or>be off the show for awhile, so her dying (Even though she's not REALLY>goneright? I thought the character came into her own in season five and blossomed as the moral core of Buffy's gang this year. >> If Seth Green handn't left, it would have been him lying dead on the, Previously on alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer, jlp@aol.comnospam wrote in, Previously on alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer, "Boozy Smurf \(aka Andrew Hatch/790, > > in season four, Maggie (Lindsay Crouse was going to be much more of a, >> We see Cain making his own bullets, but nothing is said about what, Did anyone else notice that Cain was the same guy as Sahrjon on Angel. Riley later found out his boss had implanted a behaviour modifier into him after he joined the initiative, and it caused him to experience strange feelings. the > exact opposite of this paragraph.> > Does anybody have definitive info?> > (Yeah, right, like I could tell if it was definitive based on a > Usenet posting). ", Lindsey was originally going to appear in the "First Night" storyline of. After figuring out that his hand wasn't evil but rather suicidal, Lindsey pulled the plug on his friend and destroyed the facility, while saving those that could still be saved. Professor Maggie Walsh is a fictional character in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. 2. He had also been betrayed by his boss, Professor Walsh (Lindsay Crouse) who had been in charge of the initiative but had been lying about an attempt to kill his girlfriend, Buffy. She is also a Grammy Award nominee. The WB/YouTube. I remember when I was a kid, I read a lot of vampire comics. riiighhht?) In 1996, she received a Daytime Emmy Award nomination for "Between Mother and Daughter", an episode of CBS Schoolbreak Special. One fan said: "I didnt like Riley Finn when he first became Buffy's boyfriend but by the time he left I was really sad. Or it could be that the Watcher's Guide is a fluff piece and that's really how it happened. The break was eventually detected and Lindsey, along with Lilah, Lee, and several other employees where searched by mind readers. We thought it would create> > some Shakespearean jealousy, and. A stunned Lindsey slumps against by a wall, outraged that he was killed by one of Angel's "flunkies" instead of the vampire himself. Everybody."[8]. We had a lot more planned for Seth Green> > (Oz), for example, but his departure> > > [to do films] opened the door for Tara (Amber Benson), which was> > something we never expected. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. Seth Green's loss wasdefinitely felt. Her full nameLindsay Ann Crouseis an intentional tribute to the Broadway writing . After David Boreanaz left "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," he went on to star as the eponymous antihero of the spin-off show "Angel," according to Screen Rant. No doubt Joss Whedon would have determined an appropriate and yet senseless way to slay Willow's significant other. To me she was always a secondarycharacter, I liked the character and the actress, but the death just didn'ttouch me. It's nice, it's been fun that the people who have grown up with buffy have introduced it to their kids. [16], While Spike fought the zombie defenses protecting the creature meant to kill Angel, Angel and Lindsey dueled in the chamber where the "contingency plan" was stored. And also, Seth (being oncontract) wouldn't have been missing for the amount of eps Tara was thisseason to make the whole just got back together thing and then killed in thesame episode. [citationneeded], Angel is given the amulet which Spike eventually uses to destroy the Hellmouth in Sunnydale. When informed by Eve that Spike had failed, Lindsey activated the Senior Partners' program meant to kill Angel if he turned against them. Various creatures captured by the Initiative were dissected to provide the parts for Adam. If he was making silver> bullets, it might be on a "Pascal's Wager" basis: if the legend IS true,> then using lead bullets is a way for him to get very quickly and very> messily dead. In it, she recalls the moment her friends saw a photo of Lady Gaga cuddling with Polansky in Miami after attending the Super Bowl . Riley managed to remove the chip in his body and ripped out the tubes pumping blood to keep Walsh reanimated, killing her for good. Yes, such specifics will certainly be written around the characters and their natures and would differ, but there's no real reason the broad flow of the story would have had to be different. I figured it was just her and her grad students, capturing vampires and locking them up in the basements of the university, performing experiments that they couldn't perform on humans. > > Lindsay Crouse wanted out of her contract so she was killed off. She said that she was rather> surprised and disappointed uponhearing abou ther character's death.> > > (Yeah, right, like I could tell if it was definitive based on a> > Usenet posting)> > Hey, you could check the guide for yourself>. Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Complete Series (1997-2003) was TV's most unlikely pop-culture phenomenon since The X-Files. [17], Lindsey later revealed the existence of the Circle of the Black Thorn, the Senior Partners' instrument on this plane, a secret society devoted to maintaining man's inhumanity in exchange for power. "Carmikl"
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