(the creator of the shows-- Joss Whedon-- demonstrates the same degree of self-restraint as our MB!)
Hmmm - knowing how Joss operates, I'm not quite sure how I should interpret that remark.
Things sure have changed since the DS days, eh?
They sure have! Nowadays the soap press reveals so many plot points ahead of time that the only way to be surprised anymore is to avoid reading them entirely! DS wouldn't have been nearly as much fun as it was back in the '60s and '70s if we weren't almost constantly on the edge of our seats wondering what was going to happen to the characters next.
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Take Barnabas' staking in 1897, for example. If the soap press had operated back then as they do today, we would have known weeks before that it was going to happen, but not to worry because Frid was only taking time off to do a play and both he and Barnabas would be back in four weeks. Now, where would the fun have been in that?
(Not to mention that thousands of fans wouldn't have flooded ABC with mail demanding to know if Barnabas was really dead and if Frid was off the show for good.
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