Joss Whedon comments on this in his commentary for " Chosen "; " The thing that is sort of reviled for, making up stories, becomes the thing that he helps Xander with.

To make sure stories would be unmistakably Gildersleevian without compromising their core integrity, Capitol brought in The Great Gildersleeve's chief writers, Sam Moore and John Whedon, to adapt them to Gildy's unmistakable bearing.

All After the Fall stories are written by Brian Lynch, who receives substantial input from creator Joss Whedon.

In 2007, Buffy's story was continued when Joss Whedon resurrected Buffy the Vampire Slayer as a comic book.

Whedon appreciated Lynch's writing of Spike in Asylum so much that he commissioned him to co-write the canonical continuation of the series, Angel: After the Fall, in 2007.

At Comicon in 2007, Joss Whedon confirmed that Ripper was still planned and in the pipeline.

In 2007, Joss Whedon launched a " canonical " Buffy continuation in comic format, Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight.

Xander appears from the premiere issue, " The Long Way Home " ( 2007 ) by Joss Whedon.

Amber Benson defended Whedon in 2007, saying he " is 100 percent behind the LGBT community.

Spike, played by James Marsters, is a fictional character created by Joss Whedon for the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel.

For creator Whedon, Spike is the " most fully developed " of his characters.

The character had intended to be a brief villain, with Whedon originally adamant to not have another major " romantic vampire " character like Angel-Marsters says " Spike was supposed to be dirty and evil, punk rock, and then dead "-but the character ended up staying for the second season, and then returning in the fourth to replace Cordelia as " the character who told Buffy she was stupid and about to die ".

Following the cancellation of Angel in 2004, Whedon considered creating a Spike film spin-off.

Spike was initially conceived as a disposable villain to be killed off, but proved so popular with fans that Joss Whedon decided to merely injure him instead, in the episode " What's My Line, Part Two ", in which Spike is crushed by a collapsing pipe organ and left paralyzed.

In Season Four, Spike was introduced to fill the antagonistic role that Cordelia had in seasons One to Three ; as Joss Whedon explains on the DVD featurette, " All of our characters got to the point where they were loving and hugging, and it was sort of like, where's Cordelia?

Lynch's Spike series features some collaboration with Whedon to connect the IDW and Dark Horse series ' continuities.

In IDW's Angel: After the Fall, Spike does not appear until the second issue, written by Brian Lynch with art by Franco Urru ( the creative team of Spike: Asylum and Spike: Shadow Puppets ) with plotting and " executive production " by Whedon himself.

Joss Whedon credits this antipathy as what convinced him in the episode " Lovers Walk " to bring Spike back as a cast regular.

In 2004, Joss Whedon set plans for a Spike movie.

In the Angel DVD commentary for " A Hole in the World ", Joss Whedon, the creator of Angel said, " Spike and Angel ... they were hanging out for years and years and years.

Originally, Giles was to appear in " A Hole in the World " as the one whom Angel and Spike approached in an attempt to save Fred, because Whedon needed a character who would be instantly believed ( by the characters and by the audience ) when he said there was no way to save Fred.

In Erin B. Waggoner's book Sexual rhetoric in the works of Joss Whedon, he found it interesting that the ancient Oedipus complex continues to be used as a way to underscore one's masculinity, but he added that " Connor is not the only one Angel, Wes, Spike and even Fred ( through Gunn ) kill father or father figures in order to come into their own as individuals.

* Joss Whedon, creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly and Dollhouse

The Existential Joss Whedon: Evil and Human Freedom in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly and Serenity, McFarland.

" Several years before Angel debuted, Joss Whedon developed the concept behind Buffy the Vampire Slayer to invert the Hollywood formula of " the little blonde girl who goes into a dark alley and gets killed in every horror movie.

Whedon believed that " Angel was the one character who was bigger than life in the same way that Buffy was, a kind of superhero.

While the central concept behind Buffy was " high school as a horror movie " in small-town America, co-creators David Greenwalt and Whedon were looking to make Angel into a different " gritty, urban show.

Whedon and Greenwalt prepared a six-minute promotional video pitch, often called the " Unaired Angel pilot " for the WB Network.

Jane Espenson has explained how scripts came together for Mutant Enemy Productions series Buffy, Angel and Firefly: a meeting was held and an idea was floated ( generally by Whedon ) and the writers brainstormed to develop the central theme of the episode and the character development.

Eventually, Whedon accepted Darling Violetta's interpretation of an Angel theme as that most suitable to the show.

Head writer David Fury " guarantees " that if Joss Whedon had not requested an early renewal, Angel would have been back for a Season 6:

In a 2011 interview, Whedon stated that his decision to kill off Giles could not be discussed in detail " because ripples from that event " will also be a large part of both Buffy Season Nine and Angel and Faith.

Drusilla is a fictional character created by Joss Whedon and David Greenwalt for the American television series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel.

The popular Joss Whedon series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, with their continuing serial plotlines, could be described as treading a path first laid by Dark Shadows.

Wesley Wyndam-Pryce ( also spelled Wyndam-Price and Wyndham-Price ) is a fictional character created by Joss Whedon for the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel.

Joss Whedon revealed in an interview that Wesley was originally intended to survive and appear in Angel season six, but was inspired to kill Wesley off after being pitched the idea of his death scene by one of the script writers.

Joss Whedon struggled to find a place for Wesley in the series where he wouldn't clash with Giles, and eventually approached Denisof with the offer of appearing in spin-off show Angel.

He and first wife, political activist Lee Stearns, are the parents of Film and TV Screenwriter Joss Whedon ( Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, Dollhouse, and Marvel's The Avengers ).

Between 2001 and 2004, Joss Whedon and Jeph Loeb developed a 4-minute pilot episode for Buffy the Animated Series, which was set during the show's first season.

Whedon stated " Rhonda the Immortal Waitress " was the first incarnation of Buffy in his head, " the idea of a seemingly insignificant female who in fact turns out to be extraordinary.

It was also nominated for Best Writing — Screenplay Written for the Screen for the work by Joel Cohen, Pete Docter, John Lasseter, Joe Ranft, Alec Sokolow, Andrew Stanton, and Joss Whedon making Toy Story the first animated film to be nominated for a writing award.

The series was created by Buffys creator, Joss Whedon, in collaboration with David Greenwalt, and first aired on October 5, 1999.

For the first three seasons, David Greenwalt, who co-created the series with Whedon, was also credited as executive producer ; during this time, he also took on the role of show runner.

Between 2001 and 2004, Joss Whedon and Jeph Loeb developed a 4-minute pilot episode for Buffy the Animated Series, which was set during the show's first season.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer was first created by Joss Whedon as a feature film in 1992.

Although in the first season, under writer Levinson, Birdie was often portrayed as saliently less than bright, she slowly developed as the real brains and caretaker of the household under writers John Whedon, Sam Moore and Andy White.

Whedon declared Faith the writing team's first " really human monster ".

Series creator Joss Whedon liked the character of " Vamp Willow ", who was first introduced in " The Wish ", so much that he wrote an episode specifically for her.

It was written and directed by series creator Joss Whedon and is the first and only episode of the series to feature the character of Tara Maclay as the central figure of the narrative.

The first issue of MDHP featured new talents as well as well-known writers like Joss Whedon and Ron Marz.

When Willow and Tara first met in the fourth season, the writers did not intend the relationship to be romantic but the actors had such chemistry that, two episodes later, Whedon and the writing team took Alyson Hannigan and Amber Benson aside to inform them where it would go.

She has also contributed to the Buffy the Vampire Slayer book series with the novelization of the 1992 film, the first two TV episodes, collected under the title of The Harvest, from screenplays by Joss Whedon, and " The Angel Chronicles Vol.

Joss Whedon had long wanted to kill off a major character the first time they joined the main credits.

* According to Joss Whedon, Jenny Calendar's death serves notice to fans, first, that no one is safe, death is scary and real, and second, that Angelus is not " just a little evil ," he's not " grouchy ," he's truly evil and Buffy needs to address the situation.

" In the first versions of the script, the emotional focus remained on Rebecca for the entire episode, until creator Joss Whedon decided to add the element of Angel going bad.

" The Train Job " is the second episode of the American science-fiction western television series Firefly created by Joss Whedon, although it was the first to be shown.

* Since this second episode was actually the first to be aired, writers Joss Whedon and Tim Minear had to introduce the characters to the new audience, even though many elements of these introductions were covered in the actual pilot, " Serenity.