Shooting Scripts

[Tranquillity]

If you were ever keen to see how tara as the first would have played out in CWDP or, Giles telling Buffy how he killed Ben in LMPTM check out Buffyworld as they include shooting scripts for all episodes of Buffy. There is some interesting stuff there.

 

[The Chosen]

Thanks for that find! It's an awesome site and I just started reading through the Tara/Willow scenes in CWDP.

 

[TrueVengeance]

eeek I got chills reading the Willow/Tara scenes in CWDP. 🙁 How do they actually get a hold of these? Or are these just fan made?

 

[Tranquillity]

How do they actually get a hold of these? Or are these just fan made?

i don't know the exact answer, but i saw this explanation on Whedonesque:

Saje said:
That is a fantastic resource, a lot of work has clearly gone into it and whoever's responsible deserves major kudos, so ... kudos anonymous guy(s)/gal(s), you rock 😉.

That would be a Buffy fan called Rayne (or occasionally RayneFire), who collected and uploaded the scripts for the much-missed Buffy Shooting Script site, stamped out of existence by a Fox cease-and-desist letter back in 2001. Since then, people who saved copies, or grabbed them from the Google cache have occasionally posted them again. They're definitely bona fide, and match the script books which were published later, along with numerous writer interviews mentioning cut scenes or lines. I think there's also an old Q&A with Minear in which he points someone to the site in order to check out a scene he'd cut. So Rayne gets the credit.
Sirk | January 30, 21:24 CET

 

[palabravampiress]

Dude, just reading the Dawn/Joyce section is giving me chills and I haven't even gotten to Willow/Tara!

 

[Joyce Summers]

This site has been a favorite of mine for a while. It's a real diamond. And the shooting scripts, like you said, are great. I love coming across cut scenes and reading the little added jokes the writers put in.

 

[Rebecca]

I read all of the shooting scripts back in the summer when I had a Buffy-fest. I read the shooting script and then watching the episode and it was pretty cool to see what changes had been made and such.

 

[Tranquillity]

'Beneath You' is worth a read - the final scene in the church is completely different. I do rember reading that Joss re-wrote that scene so it is pretty cool to contrast the two versions.