Deleted Scenes

1A, Original Opening:

We see young Connor walking. He attends Stanford, and has excellent grades. He is walking from class to class. A guy & a girl see him, & call him over.

1B, ALT Opening:

We start with a shot of Connor, sitting in a seat. The camera pulls out, and we see he is sitting in an office, talking to a middle aged man. The name plate on the desk says Dr. Brand. "So, Connor" he begins. You said you had something important to talk about." "Yes. The other day, . . . I was hit by a car." "You look . . . great. Are you alright?" "Yes, that’s the problem." "No injuries?" "No, none at all." "And why is this a problem?" "Well, for one thing, it was no accident." "Are you saying that someone deliberately tried to run you over?" "Yes, which brings me to my next problem." "Go on." Connor takes a deep breath, and begins. "It was all to test me. Turns out I have super strength." The psychologist begins to look at him as if he is insane. "Tell me, why do you believe you have these super powers?" "As it turns out, some wizard, named Cyvus Vail, wanted to test my powers. Seems he needed me to kill someone for him." "Kill?" "Not a human, a demon." "And you killed this . . . demon?" "Yes, if I didn’t he might have continued to come after me, my family might have gotten hurt." "And you did what you thought you had to do?" "Exactly!" "And now you have regrets?" "No, it’s just." Connor hesitates for a moment. "It’s like, as I was fighting him, this surge came over me, and all these memories that were not mine overcome me. I became angry, I did not stand a chance against this demon, that is until these new memories came to me. Like they were mine, but from a different life almost. You know?" "Wish I did. Connor, has this ever happened before. Like during a fight, or when drinking." "No, I don’t . . . do those things. I know I can’t prove that I fought that demon, but I can prove my super powers." The doctor just stares at him. "Get on the table." Excuse me?" "You know, sit on the table. I'm going to lift it with you on it. The doctor obliges, and sure enough Connor lifts it.

Comments:

I had changed the opening to have Connor talkjng with a psychologist as a way of possibly making the story/series a reflection of Connor’s experience. Connor is basically telling the 10 episodes of "Offspring" to Dr. Brand.

I liked it, but it just took to long to get where we needed to go. So I went back to the original, and expanded on it.

The very last thing I did, was go back, and edit in that part where we begin on a shirt hat says "Offspring." To quote Guenn Raiden, "I never pass on a good cliche."

3, Original ending to "The Offering" (Episode 3):

However, she comes back in. "Oh, I almost forgot this," she says, taking his knife out of her pocket, and puts it on the nearest table. "Thanks." "You’re welcome." she again leaves, and the phone rings.

Comments:

After finishing this story, I went back & reviewed it. At 1st I wanted to totally throw it away, but then I thought what a waste of a story line (even if it is a bad story line, which not so much it is, it just wasn’t thought through fully enough.

So rather then scrape it, I debated revamping it. I strted at the monitor, and said "uggh, this will take forever." So I scrolled to the end, & said why not just see if I can add something. I know many people didn’t like that we never found out who invented the cyborbs of "Lineage." (Sometimes the easy way is the best way.)

I then took a seemingly pointless story, & added a meaning to it, while giving closure to something else.

Alot of people probably didn’t like that Willow was the inventer, or were not sure how accurate it was. What we do know about the robots or cyborbs, is that it takes one with alot of brain power, Willow has that. She also said she wanted to study robots (Spike’s sexbot) in Buffy season 5. Then there is the matter that the cyborg who impersonated Wesley’s father knew things from the watcher’s files. It would make sense that Giles helped out in that area.

I want to also note, that there was some consideration on which R.A. Salavatore" book to use. The 1st thought was to use "The Two swords," which is a new release, but I said "no let’s use ‘Sojourn,’ because it is a story that reflects Connor’s own journey. It’s a book about acceptance, and finding one’s place in the world.

Actually, looking back at this story after fisnhing the saga, this story line makes sense. As the cyborbs are now the only means the slayers have of helping people, now that their powers are gone.

4, Shortened scene from "The Fruits Of Tempatation" (episode 5):

All of a sudden, Connor wakes up in his bed. He looks around, with a confused look. "It was a dream," he mumbles. "I've lost my mind, that’s all," and with that he laughs. He lays back down, and closes his eyes. Outside his window, we see a figure. It’s the devil lady, with a smile on her face.

Comments: When this was 1st written, it was a stand alone story. Then when it became apparent that this dream of Connor’s would be tied in with the series ending. I needed to go back & change the story. Since Connor is a power that is - or some close relation - he has a connection, which is seen in this dream. It’s partially fear, but also the ending that was needed (especially for a fight that can’t be won). When I finally worked out which ending I was going to use for the end of the series, I knew I had to change this. I looked good at 1st (for the story), as maybe to say "to be continued," & to show it was more then just a dream. The reason it had to go was simple, it didn’t make sense that the PTBz would give Connor a dream where he learns how to kill them. It’s like having Connor battle a dragon, & have the dragon say "my weakness is my soft belly." So it was removed, and that’s that.

5, Shortened scene from "Wings Of Evil" (episode 6): In some other room 2 men watch what just happened on a monitor. One is Dr. Octavious, and the other is the museum owner. "Won’t you please excuse me, I need to check on this." "Of course, I must be running along myself" replies Dr. Octavious. The men walk out, and go their seperate ways. "What a fool you are," mumbles Dr. Octavious to himself. "I sell you a fake and keep the real for myself. Soon I can take over the world."

Comments:

I felt there were 2 simple reasons to remove the line of taking over the world. One was we find out in the next scene Octavious plans to take over the city, and it is kind of redundant to say the same theme of "domination" again.

Two was I wanted to wait a bit before I reveal Octavious was planing something big, rather then just simple greed.

6, Deleted scene from "The End Is Nigh" (episode 9):

Connor turns to Ilyria. "Now about that scepter." Ilyria gives a slow turn, with an ominous look, "yes?" "You know I can’t let you keep it!" "Of course not," she replies, and crushes it in her hand. A wave of magic is dispelled as the magical artifact is destroyed.

Comments:

I actually wrote this after the story was finished, as I later realized that was one angle I left unfinished. Connor did not risk everything to stop Octavious, just to let another have the scepter.

When I went back & looked for a place to insert this part, it didn’t seem to fit the mood of either the end of episode 9, nor the begining of episode 10. Once I finished writting the series, it didn’t seem necessary anyway, as the scepter is now useless.

7, Disclosure for Disharmoney (continues from Angel Finale, "Not Fade Away"):

Harmoney Goes home, and puts down her bags. She then opens her letter of reference in hopes of moving onto a new job. But . . . it's a bomb. *BOOM*

Comments:1-It didn't fit . . . anywhere. 2-It's about Connor, not Harmoney. 3-The bomb could have killed other people, thus not very funny. But I always thought it would have been a great deleted scene.

-Wolverine68

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