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JOZIC: I heard a rumour that you guys had planned to bring Seth Green back had you gone to a sixth season.

FURY: We had talked about bringing…Oh…for Angel?

JOZIC: Yeah.

FURY: Well…it's possible. You know, we talked about a lot of things. I don't know where you would have heard the rumour.

The really cool thing about Season 6, we knew how Season 5 was going to end very early on and we knew what it was going to launch into with Season 6, which was a post-apocalyptic show [and] which I thought was going to be great. It was going to be Angel in The Road Warrior, which I thought would be awesome. In the ruined city of LA or out in the desert or something, it was just going to be kind of a really cool, different, show. Bringing Seth into it? I could see that.

There were lots of talks about who could we load in here, who would be great to return and, if there is an apocalypse, who would survive it? Who will be in the show next season? And I'm sure Seth's name was brought up because he was brought up for the end of Buffy as well, he was going to return for the finale. So, it's very possible, but again, Seth's got a pretty successful career without the Buffy shows.

JOZIC: Speaking of returning characters, could you comment on all the ballyhoo at the end of Angel about having Sarah come back for one of the final episodes and then not coming back and all the speculation that followed?

FURY: Could you rephrase the question? You mean about speculation as to whether Sarah was coning back?

JOZIC: I heard that you planned on having her come back…

FURY: We had approached her about doing the 100th episode. Buffy was going to appear in my episode, the episode that I directed, so we put out the offer to Sarah and she politely declined which, I will say, she had her reasons. I think there might have been a death of an aunt or something that she was dealing with but, regardless, I guess Joss kind of felt a little bit put off about the way it was done. There was a perceived notion, on both sides, I can say, between Sarah and Joss of ingratitude for both parties. Joss doesn't feel like Sarah's ever shown the proper amount of gratitude for what he's done for her and her career, and I think she feels the same way. That she feels she was never afforded the credit for Buffy's success and the gratitude from Joss.

I think they're both crazy. [laughs] They were the right people at the right time, it was a great partnership and it created a great series, and I truly think they both recognize this to some extent. But for whatever reason, I think the fact that she declined to do that put a damper on her coming back later. It provided us with an opportunity, though, because if we couldn't get Sarah, we thought, "why don't we get Charisma back and do that," which turned out to be a Godsend because Charisma was fantastic.

JOZIC: That was a brilliant episode.

FURY: So, that was a lucky thing. A lot of the things that fall-out with us actually turn into gold. Like you think, "Oh, this is a disaster, she won't do it," or, "we don't have him," or, "Seth is leaving," and we go, "Oh, but this gives us this great episode that we wouldn't have otherwise."

As far as Sarah returning later, there was talk of her being in the finale but Joss decided - and I get it - that it's sort of unfair to our cast of characters to bring Sarah in, suddenly, at the end. Angel's [cast and crew] have sort of created their own world at this point and to suddenly infuse Buffy into it…

It's one thing if she appeared in the middle of the season as a guest star, but to appear in the finale sort of diminishes the importance of all these other great actors and characters that we have and I concurred with him. I thought he was right.

JOZIC: But wasn't there talk of her being in "The Girl in Question"?

FURY: There was very, very little talk about that. No, she was never going to be in that. The missed opportunity to see Buffy

Dear Angel Fan...

"When I was making Buffy I thought she’ll have a love interest, a mysterious stranger named Angel who turns out to be a vampire! But a vampire with a soul, cursed to walk the night in eternal remorse for his evil deeds.."

No wait. That’s way too cheesy. Nobody will ever buy that.

Such were my thoughts as I developed the TV show "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." I knew Angel wouldn’t (forgive the pun) fly. I was frantic. And then something wonderful happened.

I totally didn’t come up with anything better.

So this guy was born, and not only did people buy him, they loved him. I loved him, at least 76% platonically. I loved him enough to create, with my partner in crime David Greenwalt, his own show. "Angel". And then it got weird. Well, weirder.

The thing is, Buffy was a simple premise that developed into a complex show. Angel was not a simple premise, not for guys like Dave and me. We couldn’t just have noble, handsome, dark hero rush in and save various days. We tried. That ain’t life. We found that Angel needed to be a show about our darkest journeys, not unlike Buffy except that Buffy had a grounding, she had a destiny, an arc, a posse. We knew where she had to go. We had NO IDEA where Angel had to go. And so he went everywhere: up down, good, bad, left, farther left... off the edge of the world and home for supper and the thing is, it ended up being as much or more about our lives than Buffy was. We weren’t ’chosen’ (not for sports, anyway). We had no destiny. We lived on the edge of chaos, personally, narratively... even as Angel surrounded himself with more and more of a family (and we found more and more wonderful actors for David Boreanaz to play against), that central core of warmth and safety that Buffy enjoyed was missing. The result is before you in toto: The long, strange trip that is five years in the life a vampire. Not long enough, I would argue, but plenty with the strange.

For your listy goodness, here is a few of the moments here in that made my life worth living:

—Angel locking a roomful of lawyers in with two peckish vampire gals.

—Buffy swearing never to forget her time with Angel, right before she does.

—Faith in the rain, begging Angel to kill her.

—Princess Cordelia.

—Darla’s horrified accusation, "While Spike - SPIKE - was out killing a Slayer, you were busy saving Missonaries!... From me." (True emotional Vampire logic, courtesy of Tim Minear.)

—Lilah dressing up Fred to seduce Wesley. (Gentlemen, start you therapists!)

—Any and all karaoke.

—Fred and Wesley, deeply drunk.

—Gunn in the White Room, meeting his match.

—The biggest, bloodiest and most personal Spike/Angel fight we’ve ever shot.

—The silliest, most pointless Spike/Angel argument we’ve ever shot. Cavemen/Astronauts

—Dude, Puppets!

With no star to guide us, we sailed into waters filled with dragons and mermaids and a few really impressive icebergs. We made some of our most compelling television, reinventing season by season, show by show, moment to moment. This is our odd little odyssey and no, we never did reach the shores of safety, but that’s sort of the point. We don’t go through the Hell of existence - the pain, the drama, the meaninglessness and confusion because it’s safe, or simple, or will end happily now or ever after. We do it because nobody ever come up with anything better.

So enjoy it. I did.

Joss Whedon