Question: Majandra, speaking of doing something different in your role and your
work on the show – doing those intros, how did they think of you for doing those? And
is that the character? Is that almost you? What is that all about?
Majandra Delfino: You're asking me what they
thought, so what did they think?
Jason Katims: Well, the way I thought of her doing
the intros was, if I want to know what's going on on the set, I go to Majandra, and she
tells me what's going on…
Majandra Delfino: Great.
Jason Katims: …in a very entertaining way. And
what was happening was, we found that there was certain level of confusion for some of the
audience that weren't catching all of the episodes, because we got into some sort of
mythology arcs, and we wanted to sort of turn that into a positive. And I think that
Majandra has just a great sense of humor and a great voice, and it was a great way to kind
of make sense of some of the stuff that wasn't making sense to the audience.
Question: Will you be doing them in the new season?
Jason Katims: Honestly, I'm hoping not to do them. We haven't decided yet, not because I wouldn't
love Majandra to do them, because I would. But one of our big goals this year for the
storylines is to keep these episodes more close-ended, to sort of do episodes…I mean,
in moving to a new network, obviously, one of the big goals is to not only bring our
audience, but to bring a new audience into the show. And the last thing we want to do is
to have somebody watch the show, either from watching after Buffy, or
somebody…or somebody who turns in because they're watching some other show at UPN,
and have them feel like they missed the boat on the show. So one of the things that we're
really concentrating on is being able to sort of tell stories that are complete in and of
themselves, and satisfying and entertaining.
Majandra Delfino: Yeah, please. I don't need to
ramble any more than I did last year, so I'm kind of happy about that.
Question: Jason, just as a follow up to that last statement, is there
going to be any kind of built-in recap of the past couple of seasons for new viewers?
That's the first part of my question. The second part – I was just curious, a lot of
the cast had an opportunity to play different but similar characters with these twins that
went off to New York. Are we going to see that again?
Jason Katims: The
Dupes. We don't have plans right now to bring
them back. One of the things that, you know, I sort of feel…when you move to a new
network, it's a great thing, because you can sort of, like, bring…continue doing the
things that you love about the show, and it gives you an opportunity with the things
you're not so sure about, to change a little bit. And one of the things I felt is that
some of the sort of sci-fi arcs became so complicated, that it was very hard to follow.
And that while I really loved those episodes, it's like, you have to know so much in order
to enjoy them. And I felt…actually from the end of the season, the last arc of last
season, beginning with the episode where Alex dies, I felt like the show itself got to a
new level. I think it sort of was more based in character. You know, when Alex died,
suddenly it wasn't so easy for everybody, one of our own has been killed. And it's not
so…you know what I mean? It's not so funny anymore. We can't just get out of any jam
because we have some aliens on the show. And I really like that. I feel like those
are…and I think that those are really good stories for the cast to play, because it
gives them something to sink their teeth into. So those are more of the
storylines…more of the direction I want to take the show in.
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