Personally I think> > ASH's departure this season was even more devastating.> >>> I wonder. She feels like she's testing the boundaries of something, and any human being always feels important no matter who they are. It seems that a lot of the problems that Buffy has had in previous seasons were the results of actors bailing out in mid-production. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. WB / Hulu. Whether or not Buffyverse werewolves have any sort of fast healing hasnever been established. During the day vampires had to sleep in a coffin with its native soil init and would return to a death like state.3. [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. I loved Eliza Dushku, but she got a greatending on Angel so I don't mind her absence. It's very dramatic poetry in that way. [EXPLAINER]. 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. The loss of Marc Blucas was a blessing! Lindsey displayed the new abilities he had learned on his journeys, enabling him to keep up with Angel in a physical confrontation. The. I'm sure she admires Dr. Frankenstein - or Einstein. After graduating from the Chapin School in 1966[6] That was also the episode where Willow and her mother, Sheila, have an argument about Willow's involvement with the occult. 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. But Crouse made the character far too cold for fans to get into. Lindsay Crouse wanted out of her contract so she was killed off. I doubt Oz would die from a bullet IMHO, unless he was shot in the head orsomething > > > That might have been the net result, but you would have to admit the> road travel to get to that point would have been much different. See Lindsay Crouse full list of movies and tv shows from their career. Angel fought Darla for it at the event and Lindsey tried to protect her from Wolfram & Hart, which tried to kill her. That's because as with most female athletes, no matter how good she got, those things. ", Lindsey was originally going to appear in the "First Night" storyline of. Used automotive wheel weights make great inexpensive bullets forplinking, and I can control how heavy a powder charge I want as well. Privacy Policy. "[18], Lindsey destroyed the Sahrvin Clan with Lorne's assistance as planned. Apparently Adam was> > originally supposed to be a good guy, but when Lindsay Crouse wanted out> > of her contract they had to scramble to find a new Big Bad. She> > said the Initiative storyline was something that they pulled out of> > their hats at the last minute. Willow was headed down that path anyway and Tara was a fellow traveller. 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. Buffy the Vampire Slayer RETURN confirmed - stars reunite after decade, Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot: Release date, cast, plot, trailer, Sarah Michelle Gellar reveals the treatment she used to shed fat. > Previously on alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer, Car@rcn.com wrote in article> <3D075A59@rcn.com> > > From the 29 January 2002 online edition of Entertainment Weekly, Marti> > Noxon:> > >. The Big Bang Theory finale: Who did Sarah Michelle Gellar play? [14], Lindsey later sought out Spike under the assumed identity of a drifter named Doyle, closely paralleling the initial encounters between Angel and the real Doyle. One of the biggest last minute changes that affected Buffy was Seth Green leaving early in production of season four. [20] Crouse has spoken on the relevance of Buddhism in the modern world: .mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 40px}.mw-parser-output .templatequote .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;padding-left:1.6em;margin-top:0}, "[Buddhism] is not an exclusive club. [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. She doesn't have the time for it. On Fri, 14 Jun 2002 16:56:21 -0400, Timothy A. McDaniel wrote: Thoght ASH was supposed to be in the spin-off "Ripper". --from a usenet discussion. --Doctor Who ************************************************************************, I wonder. 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 :-). He said that she was a scientist, and that she was going to be doing research and eventually, she might hatch an evil plot, but her front was being a psychology teacher. "[21], "Lindsay Crouse keeps up a Family Stage Tradition. [18] Their marriage produced two daughters, Willa and Zosia Mamet. She did my head in so im glad that she didnt keep going. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. He noted that, while Angel was sidetracked at Wolfram & Hart, the apocalypse was already underway, and Angel and his team were becoming more corrupt by the day. So, the story I *thought* I knew was that Prof Walsh was the planned Big Bad for the season, but then Crouse departed the show early for (?) As opposed to just sort of misguided."[6]. READ MORE:Buffy the Vampire Slayer spoilers: Who does Buffy end up with? Lindsey was left alone, beaten both physically and emotionally. Adam wasn't scary enough to be Big Bad on his own either, LOL. To me that would have been a cooler idea since you don't need to have a huge hidden base under campus and it does not make the Slayer's job completely redundant since you don't have an armed squad of demon-hunter doing her job, just your everyday mad scientist. Manage all your favorite fandoms in one place! Also, a rather different story since the focuswould have been on that personal aspect as well as thepolitical/military one. Marc Blucas is an American actor who is best known for his role in the supernatural teen drama, Buffy The Vampire Slayer. [citation needed] She received her acting training at HB Studio[7] in New York City. Lindsay Ann Crouse is an American actress. I've never understood the logic of shifting the dilemma to anewly introduced third party. ----- 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. From what I've heard it was between Crouse's agent and ME; specifically money $$$. An understanding that Willow found inconvenient as she used magic to empower her and increase her standing with Buffy. It's easy to kill offrecurring character's, it's tougher to kill off contract regulars. But most of the changes [throughout> > the series] have had to do with> > > actors coming and going. Fearing that the hand is evil, Lindsey went to Caritas and sang for the Host, revealing that he used to be a regular customer and musician at Caritas until he lost his hand. More info. Maggie was supposed to be the season's Big Bad.> > Maggie was supposed to drive a wedge between Buffy and Riley. When he did, Lindsay discovered the man slaughter was a hoax to get Darla to Angel and hopefully take his soul. In my opinion, she was more of an appendage then a self-standing character when she was first introduced. Lorne remarked he had heard him sing and shot Lindsey twice in the chest with a silenced pistol. Crouse was born in New York City, the daughter of Anna (ne Erskine)[1] and Russel Crouse, a playwright. "You can't stop and recite something," says Crouse. Meanwhile, he infiltrated Wolfram & Hart. Hoping that his performance would pick up again with the return of his hand, Lindsey's superiors arranged for him to receive a mystical transplant. 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. [citationneeded], You kill me? His intent was for Willow to be Season Six's Big Badand whoever her love was at the time would have to be sacrificed to push herover the edge. Lindsay Ann Crouse (born May 12, 1948) is an American actress. While> Oz would have remained Willows love interest, I don't think we would> have seen Buffy crying in Oz's lap in "Dead Things" for instance. Because their behavior was shown on national television, coupled with the loss of the money and their attempt to kill Angel was revealed, which was against the firm's policy, their new supervisor Nathan Reed told them that Angel's life was invaluable while they were replaceable. Crouse has appeared in featured and guest roles in a number of television series. [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. After a relationship with Robert Duvall,[15] Crouse married playwright David Mamet in 1977. Her interest was given a menacing quality in "Gingerbread" when we first see Willow and Amy performing a magic ritual. This transcript is intended to be used for criticism, comment, and research purposes. Her interview in The Watcher's Guide, vol. Better safe than splattered. But to be honest, i think her story played out the way it should have been. To me she was always a secondarycharacter, I liked the character and the actress, but the death just didn'ttouch me. Their supervisor, Holland Manners, noticed Lindsey was going through a stage in his life to make decisions and allows Lindsey to take a few days to decide. When informed by Eve that Spike had failed, Lindsey activated the Senior Partners' program meant to kill Angel if he turned against them. 1999 . Harris wasn't playing for money, power or fame. This is USENET! Lindsey had tattoos of Enochian protection runes over his body, mystically hiding his presence from the Senior Partners. Adam activates the chip Walsh had inserted into Riley's heart, making him biddable to Adam's command. This allowed her to commit murder and get away due to her supposed disability. [5], Buffy writer David Fury said in an interview, "I don't think Joss had envisioned Maggie Walsh as being entirely villainous. Maybe it useda wierd calibre bullet. Lindsey was one of six children, two of whom died of the flu. Crouse viewed her character "no nonsense, and she seems to be a real teacher. Both of . You don't AngelLindsey's last words, Lindsey and Angel allied once more in an effort to stop the Circle. The show then went into a bunch of filler/side stories involving Smart guy! Before the Initiative showed up I had assumed that Maggie had discovered the existance of vampires and was using them as guinea pigs for various psych experiments. Certainly Tara's role would have been quite different,> > or maybe there wouldn't have been a Tara at all. [citationneeded], Lindsey responded by changing into his casual clothes, getting into his truck and by brutally beating Angel with it and a sledgehammer, demanding to know what happened with Darla. Maggie was supposed to be the season's Big Bad.> > Maggie was supposed to drive a wedge between Buffy and Riley. In 1977, she appeared as Lily Braden, the discontented wife of hockey player Ned Braden in Slap Shot. Actually, it could be even simpler than that - I reload and cast my ownbullets for certain calibers because it's a whole lot cheaper than factoryammo. 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. [citationneeded], Though rivals at heart, Lindsey and Lilah were also forced to also work together. In an interview from back in 2018, he said: "It was one of my very first jobs, it was certainly my first big job. The. After Angel left, Lindsey informed the firm that there was "a new player in town. However, he did return for an episode in the sixth season, where he returned and revealed he had married someone else. Adam was a last minute replacement as the Big Bad. Express. [citationneeded], Failing to do so, Darla was diagnosed with syphilis, the disease that she had before becoming a vampire. There were indications that the Initiative existed from the first episode. I'm a vampire with a soul.BUFFY: A vampire with a soul? He has also previously starred in Necessary Roughness and Underground, and fans may be interested to hear he used to be a college basketball player. Sumati Marut, Cindy Lee, Rick Blue, Lindsay Crouse", "Actress brings Buddhist retreat to Windhover. 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. As Crouse has said: "In our family, the work ethic was held up as some kind of byword At any hour, somebody's typewriter was going."[5]. 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. He talks about similar issues with Donald Sutherland & Glenn Quinn. 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. 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. [citation needed] Her maternal grandparents were author and educator John Erskine and his wife Pauline Ives. Gellar has stated she believes Whedon's original intention was "was to put Xander and Buffy together. "A Master in the Art of the Con. Riley was also the only character to have been accepted as part of the group by Buffy's male friend, Xander Harris (Nicholas Brendon). The Initiative was eventually destroyed and Riley was demoted, which did nothing for his reckless state of mind. > > Lindsay Crouse wanted out of her contract so she was killed off. I really enjoy the strong, challenging women that pop up in Buffy's world - Maggie Walsh, Jenny Calendar, Anya, & Tara to name a few. 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. Buffy: Do Spike and Buffy really love each other? [9] Crouse is also known for her role in the fourth season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, where she was a recurring supporting cast member playing Professor Maggie Walsh. After huge amounts of fan speculation on the idea, a vampirised Slayer finally did appear in the "Season Nine" comics. 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. *shudder*. Crouse is a Buddhist. Lindsay Crouse is Indian by birth. and our You do realize that Wolf Lake has nothing to do with Buffy, don't you? [2], The Senior Partners gave that Eurotrash vampire everything I've worked for. And even if they were silver, maybe he just had a LoneRanger complex. "Christian Kane (lindsey) - Horror-web.com Interview. [19], You're not part of the solution, Lindsey. In 1999, he worked with vampiric businessman Russell Winters, a client that because of Lindsey's and his firm's services, could feed on young women without alerting attention. Although it seemed that he and Angel had buried the hatchet, Lindsey was unable to cope with the fact that the Senior Partners gave Angel everything that Lindsey had worked so hard for. [4] Their 1946 play State of the Union won that year's Pulitzer Prize for Drama. But just as he said this, Angel entered the conference they were having where Lindsay introduce him to Wolfram & Hart and telling him that Angel could not touch Winters. 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>. The three hired then-renegade Slayer Faith to assassinate him, promising to free her from her police charges and a doubled amount of payment. Nike and Pregnancy: Your Questions, Answered. I know in a lot of the *old* werewolf stories, youdidn't need silver to kill one, but after all these bleedin' movies got theissue confused, if *I* were hunting one, I don't think I'd gamble on whetherthey were wrong! It wasTara who got Willow down that path of heavy magic. [1], He then aided in the resurrection of Angel's old lover, Darla by taking over chanting during the ritual to bring her back when the demon Vocah; who was originally performing the ritual; was distracted when Angel attacked him. Cookie Notice We bring you all the headlines and gossip in one place! This also explains why they didn't think to ring in some othermilitary type as the big bad. Buffy defeats the demons and appears on the monitors after Walsh has prematurely announced Buffy's death to Riley, who walks out. [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. Usually, Xander would become jealous of Buffy's other male connections, but he seemed to show respect towards Riley. Career Crouse made her Broadway debut in the 1972 revival of Much Ado About Nothing and appeared in her first film in 1976 in All the President's Men. The Bridge, Iain Banks, > > Her interview in The Watcher's Guide, vol. Together, Lindsey and Eve manipulate events so that Spike, not Angel, proves (or at least appears to the Senior Partners) to be the ensouled vampire foretold in the Scrolls of Aberjian, the one who will have a crucial impact in the Apocalypse and fulfill the Shanshu Prophecy.Lindsey hopes that once the Senior Partners realize the folly of attempting to seduce Angel to their . [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. It has something to offer everyone at all levels Buddhism is dynamic and has captured the interests of Americans. (The writers could change their minds, of course, and makethem crucial to the season seven finale, say, but that's the currentcanon.) Many people don't realize sports are one of the best short cuts for the wealthy in elite college admissions. I've seen other > published interviews that say Lindsay Crouse was disappointed to learn > her character was destind to die halfway through the season-- i.e. ", Christian Kane has said that he considered Lindsey to be driven in his hate for Angel during season 5 over losing Darla to him: "Even though I'm in love with Eve, Darla was a true love. "To join the Clueless Club, send a followup to this message quoting everythingup to and including this sig!" Per the outlet, "Angel . Lindsay> > Crouse was signed for the whole season.> >. [citationneeded], However, Cordelia's seemingly returning to life was a risk Lindsey's plans. [18], During the Fall of Los Angeles, the Senior Partners discussed with Wesley the possibility of replacing him with a "zombified McDonald" or Eve as their liaison to Angel. Apparently Adam wasoriginally supposed to be a good guy, but when Lindsay Crouse wanted outof her contract they had to scramble to find a new Big Bad. But because of Lindsay Crouse having filming conflictions with her movie schedules they had to kill her off and write Adam in? I really do believe that." Why did Buffy go to LA in season 4? At first he enjoyed his new privileges, able to play his guitar again. He starred in a total of 31 episodes, and his character, Riley Finn, was first introduced in the season four premiere. Actual legends appear to be enormously miscellaneous and seldom include these familiar pieces, while they often *do* include pieces that we (and Hollywood) would say just belong to ghosts, werewolves, zombies, and the like. This then forced Lindsey to use an artificial hand from then on. Joss has said that Lindsay Crouse was difficult to work with, which led him to killing her off/reducing her role sooner. Lindsay Crouse's full name is Lindsay Ann Crouse and her nickname is Lindsay Crouse. "[4], Crouse outlined her view of Maggie's relationships with Riley and Buffy, "Her teaching assistant Riley is really the child she never had, and there's probably confusion there that he's a potential something for her that's slightly out of her reach, but she's willing to prevent anyone else from being interested in him.