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Date Posted: 07:59:05 12/15/02 Sun
Author: CW
Subject: Considering the size of Serenity's crew......
In reply to: Darby 's message, "Re: CW's Writer's Journal for "Objects in Space" (Spoilers for the ep)" on 20:21:31 12/14/02 Sat

including the shepherd and Inara, I think you're right. We needed some time just to get to know those folks without the distraction of absorbing the planetary problems of the week. With a smaller core cast it might have been different.

The trend toward larger central casts gives the writers a lot of room to have interactions that carry over from week to week. But it tends to trivialize most guest stars. I guess one of the big things that's turned me off from Angel was the manner it changed in emphasis from a small central cast with most episodes having guest stars with large roles, to a big cast with few important guest stars. In the first season there were a lot of extremely interesting guest stars. Even when the stories were marginal back then, there was something new going on I wanted to see. Now it's degenerated into who is sleeping with whom, who is jealous of whom, and who is mad at whom. When that's most of the show, to me it gets really tiresome. Buffy was slipping that way last season, but seems to be doing more innovative things with its cast this year. I think Firefly was developing a healthy balance between the raw emotional stuff, that many people enjoy best and the situational quandries I really prefer.

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