Before the Comics were created, was the Blonde Girl intended to be the ACTUAL BUFFY?

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Before the Buffy S8 comics existed, and when Angel was still on the air in 2004 was the blonde girl in "The Girl in Question" intended to be the actual Buffy? But it was a stunt woman playing her cause of SMG not appearing? I'm lost in this subject tbh
 
I could be wrong but Buffy had two decoys one in the hell mouth and one hanging with the immortal both were decoys fit Buffy do even though that's supposed to be Buffy it's actually her decoy. It's been a while since I read the comic though so could be very wrong.
 
Enemies said:
I could be wrong but Buffy had two decoys one in the hell mouth and one hanging with the immortal both were decoys fit Buffy do even though that's supposed to be Buffy it's actually her decoy. It's been a while since I read the comic though so could be very wrong.
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What I meant was, back in the original airing for the episode, was it actually meant to be the real Buffy Summers herself or was it always planned to be a decoy even back in 2004?
 
My guess is they intended it to be her, and then concluded that it wasn't while creating the comic.
 
This doesn't really answer the question, but I believe SMG was never intended to appear in The Girl in Question - I'm sure I once read one of the writers saying it was always intended to just be her back in the distance, so that the story could focus more on the Spike-Angel buddy movie aspect. Supposedly they did want SMG to have a cameo in one of the last two episodes though, in the same way Angel had briefly appeared in the last two Buffy episodes. If that had happened, I presume it would've followed on from The Girl in Question, with Buffy having found out from Andrew that Spike and Angel were looking for her (in the same way she went to LA after Pangs). So my conjecture is that it was intended to be the real Buffy, and that the decoy thing was only thought up years later (building on the handy fact that SMG had never appeared).
 
I agree with [MENTION=11518]shadcat[/MENTION] I think it was supposed to be the real Buffy at the time but then when they wrote the comics they put it into the story (that it was a decoy not the real deal) so that the time frames matched both onscreen and in comic.
 
I always thought it was suppose to be Buffy but that Sarah was out of the country filming another movie so they weren't able to use her as they had hoped. I remember around that time there were lots or rumors about David being upset that he went back to BTVS for Sarah but she didn't return the favor.

Plus, wouldn't Angle and Spike have known if it wasn't Buffy? I think the writers just tweaked things a bit for the comics.
 
The comics retconned it. It was supposed to be Buffy, but then Joss changed his mind and created the idea of decoys, which makes more sense than real Buffy partying with someone named the Immortal.
 
The story as I recall it at the time was that Sarah was supposed to reprise her role in "The Girl In Question," but was still tied up in Australia filming "Scooby Do" when the time came. Rather than drop the episode, Joss made the decision to use a stand in for Sarah and go ahead with it that way.

My guess is that by the time that Joss began writing Season 8, there had been so much uproar by fans about the fake Buffy that he just decided to go with it in exactly that way, which is how the "Buffy" in Rome actually became a fake. Also, and this is just my personal theory on the matter, I think that, while the character of The Immortal was so interesting as a foil to Angel and Spike, all charming, wealthy, powerful, a legendary lover, and so on, that, by the time that Season 8 actually rolled around, Joss found that he had created a mystery character of such legendary, mythic proportions, that he simply wasn't capable of portraying that being in the flesh, so to speak. So, rather than even try, he mentions Morty once in passing, in Issue 1, then forgets all about him. Either that, or the character who he imagined turned out to be so close to one of the characters from Greg Widen's "Highlander" universe (probably Methos) that he decided not to use him for fear of copyright infringement.
 
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The story as I recall it at the time was that Sarah was supposed to reprise her role in "The Girl In Question," but was still tied up in Australia filming "Scooby Do" when the time came. Rather than drop the episode, Joss made the decision to use a stand in for Sarah and go ahead with it that way.

My guess is that by the time that Joss began writing Season 8, there had been so much uproar by fans about the fake Buffy that he just decided to go with it in exactly that way, which is how the "Buffy" in Rome actually became a fake. Also, and this is just my personal theory on the matter, I think that, while the character of The Immortal was so interesting as a foil to Angel and Spike, all charming, wealthy, powerful, a legendary lover, and so on, that, by the time that Season 8 actually rolled around, Joss found that he had created a mystery character of such legendary, mythic proportions, that he simply wasn't capable of portraying that being in the flesh, so to speak. So, rather than even try, he mentions Morty once in passing, in Issue 1, then forgets all about him. Either that, or the character who he imagined turned out to be so close to one of the characters from Greg Widen's "Highlander" universe (probably Methos) that he decided not to use him for fear of copyright infringement.
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Not exactly. Sarah was supposed to appear in the "Your Welcome" episode but she couldn't make it, so instead they used Charisma playing Cordelia. At the end of the series, Sarah was available but Whedon didn't want to use her in an episode anymore, especially in the last one, so before the end of the show he decided to write a "funny" story with Spike and Angel and Buffy but he didn't want Sarah to appear. So Sarah was never supposed to appear in TGIQ episode, in my opinion it was Whedon's way trying to mock Sarah, but instead he ended up mocking Buffy's character, hence the retcon in season 8.
 
I think we also must take into consideration that Charisma didn't know that Cordy dies until she saw the actual episode. And she mentioned that fact in an interview. So maybe actors were apprehensive about their characters. For example, it was Michelle Trachtenberg who was supposed to guest-star in TGIQ, but later she was replaced with Andrew:

http://www.spoilerslayer.com/archives/002922.php

As to Sarah's unavailability - back in season 5 she was simultaneously working on BtVS and on Scooby-Do that was shot in Australia.
 
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