So leaving actually saved his life. That she doesn't want to live in a world of babies. riiighhht?) ActuallyI think it would have upset me more to see Oz get shot infront of Willow. Adam was a last minute replacement as the Big Bad. "Look at my generation. I couldn't let that slide.Lindsey McDonald, Two years later, Lindsey finally returned to Los Angeles, when he learned that Angel has taken over the Los Angeles division of Wolfram & Hart. Unknown to many in the Initiative, Walsh is also involved in Project 314, a secret program within the Initiative that is creating a hybrid demon-humanoid-mechanoid (demonoid) known as Adam. JavaScript is disabled. Touched by an Angel. The Real Reason David Boreanaz Left Buffy The Vampire Slayer In season five, Riley started to deteriorate as his devotion to the initiative started to get in the way of his relationship with the vampire slayer. Lindsay Crouse's full name is Lindsay Ann Crouse and her nickname is Lindsay Crouse. The Watcher's Guide is indeed one of the published interviews I was citing about Crouse's departure and Walsh's fate. Lindsey hopes that once the Senior Partners realize the folly of attempting to seduce Angel to their cause, that he will be stripped of his position at Wolfram & Hart, leaving a power vacuum which Lindsey could fill, gaining a measure of revenge on Angel. His relationship with Buffy also hit the rocks after he realised she could not love him in the way he wanted, as she was scared of emotional vulnerability. There were indications that the Initiative existed from the> > first episode. No doubt Joss Whedon would have determined an appropriate and yet senseless way to slay Willow's significant other. The plan was averted as Spike, Cordelia, and Angel were able to uncover Lindsey's actions. Everybody."[8]. She really would like to fashion the world in her image. If he was making silverbullets, it might be on a "Pascal's Wager" basis: if the legend IStrue, then using lead bullets is a way for him to get very quickly andvery messily dead. It should have been layered a bit with fans even sympathizing with Walsh. She> > said the Initiative storyline was something that they pulled out of> > their hats at the last minute. Since he wouldn't do it, Lindsey stormed into her hotel with armed men, with Lindsey personally having Angel tasered and forcing him to watch as Drusilla entered the room and re-sired Darla. We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you've consented to and to improve our understanding of you. Crouse viewed her character "no nonsense, and she seems to be a real teacher. Her other films include Slap Shot (1977), Between the Lines (1977), The Verdict (1982), Prefontaine (1997), and The Insider (1999). Lindsay Crouse was to play the character as a tough woman who thought she was doing the right thing even if her methods were harsh. A good guy. This allowed her to commit murder and get away due to her supposed disability. Used automotive wheel weights make great inexpensive bullets forplinking, and I can control how heavy a powder charge I want as well. Usually, Xander would become jealous of Buffy's other male connections, but he seemed to show respect towards Riley. Especially since he's been in the show from almostthe start. "This is a matter of opinion--I disagree. Walsh was basically working on something that was inhuman, which in turn could be explained by saying that Adam was born out of the dark part of Walsh's soul/mind. You don't AngelLindsey's last words, Lindsey and Angel allied once more in an effort to stop the Circle. [2][3] Lindsay Ann Crouse's full name is an intentional tribute to the Broadway writing partnership of Lindsay and Crouse, which consisted of her father and his writing partner, Howard Lindsay. Adam is a complete monster with absolutely no human emotions -- it made him a very formidable foe! I don't want to sound like a jerk or attack ME and Joss or anything but is it standard practice to let actors with contracts just walk anytime they feel like it? See Lindsay Crouse full list of movies and tv shows from their career. I have always imagined that Maggie treats people like grown-ups. It's easy to kill offrecurring character's, it's tougher to kill off contract regulars. I was really creeped out when he reanimated the corpses of Walsh and the other doctor. The trailblazing basketball player died last month at age 66. Maggie Walsh was supposed to be a> > motherly type to Riley. Writing and acting. When Buffy appeared at the secret laboratory to confront Adam and save Riley, the undead Walsh tried to attack her with a bone saw. Returning to his apartment, Lindsey found that Darla had left town, taking all her clothes with her. Privacy Policy. While it is true that the affinity began as a result of a common interest in magic, Willow was always portrayed as the more dominant partner. Buffy The Vampire Slayer airs on ALL4 and Prime Video. The series stars Sarah Michelle Gellar as the title character, and she ended up forming a relationship with . At first he enjoyed his new privileges, able to play his guitar again. Even our quantum physics validate[s] ideas the Buddha taught 2,500 years ago. On Fri, 14 Jun 2002 16:56:21 -0400, Timothy A. McDaniel wrote: Thoght ASH was supposed to be in the spin-off "Ripper". Whether or not Buffyverse werewolves have any sort of fast healing hasnever been established. Whedon discussed with Nicholas Brendon and Sarah Michelle Gellar the idea of Buffy and Xander ending up together at the end of the final season, which the actors reportedly agreed. It's very dramatic poetry in that way. Lindsey was eager to have Angel sire Darla, thus saving her. Have your Hicks spayed or neutered. On more than one occasion, he joined forces with the Angel Investigations team and helped them stop some of Wolfram & Hart's particularly amoral agendas and operations, such as their plan to assassinate three children[1] or their mystical transplant operation. [1][2], I guess it's fair to say you've never seen anything like real poverty. He did this by casually informing the board in a meeting that he was bored with the firm's games while assaulting his colleagues and throwing the promotion to Lilah after revealing she carried files against them out of fear that she would not be promoted and thus killed. Sunnydale in further episodes before it was all revealed to us.-- Be seeing you,Growltiger, > > > > Lindsay Crouse wanted out of her contract so she was killed off. She's probably a mix of those two. The show then went into a bunch of filler/side stories involving ", Clements, Warren. [19], You're not part of the solution, Lindsey. Lindsay Crouse is Indian by birth. Crouse was born in New York City, the daughter of Anna (ne Erskine) and Russel Crouse, a playwright. The. But Crouse made the character far too cold for fans to get into. Vampires could shapeshift into bats, wolfs and even smoke4. (Presumably Watchers and other supernatural experts knew more). Blucas, now 48, joined the cast of Buffy in 1999 and this was his first major TV role, with the show acting as a springboard to a long-running TV and film career. the > exact opposite of this paragraph.> > Does anybody have definitive info?> > (Yeah, right, like I could tell if it was definitive based on a > Usenet posting). She has a vision of what she wants to do. Gellar has stated she believes Whedon's original intention was "was to put Xander and Buffy together. For more information, please see our It's nice, it's been fun that the people who have grown up with buffy have introduced it to their kids. Andaside from that, I dunno. If I recall, was not one of Sunday's minions hit by a taser by a then unknown assailant? [15] Although the "mind numbing" visions that Lindsey reported were non-existent, the events described were real. In 1982 she appeared as the decisive witness in The Verdict. Buffy has actually played on this a bit in "Buffy v Dracula" when Spike blames Dracula for spilling the beans about vampire weaknesses-- implying that before Dracula's story was written, most myth and legend knew little or nothing about them. Marc Blucas: The actor played Riley Finn in Buffy, Marc Blucas: The actor played Buffy's boyfriend. Fearing that the hand is evil, Lindsey went to Caritas and sang for the Host, revealing that he used to be a regular customer and musician at Caritas until he lost his hand. [2] [16] John Lahr writes in his book Show and Tell: New Yorker Profiles that when Mamet married Crouse in 1977, he "married into show business aristocracy". For her role in the 1984 film Places in the Heart, she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Leaving Angel briefly to get his stake, Angel in that time recovered and turned the tables on Lindsey. However, his hew hand began to act up, writing "kill" whenever Lindsey didn't concentrate. Putting him in a crisis of conscience, Lindsay teamed up with Angel to save the children and allow him to leave Wolfram & Hart scot-free. In 1977, she appeared as Lily Braden, the discontented wife of hockey player Ned Braden in Slap Shot. Vampires were more primeval and didn't get emotionally involved withpeople or other vampires for that matter, There are more differences but I have forgotten the rest :-). For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. Apparently Adam was> > originally supposed to be a good guy, but when Lindsay Crouse wanted out> > of her contract they had to scramble to find a new Big Bad. When she seemingly killed a security guard which put her on the run, Lindsay tried to contact Angel but he was already there and hung Lindsey's neck by a string choking, wanting to know where she was but Lindsey explained that she would die if Angel didn't save her. [8] Darla did this with the intent to keep both lawyers as their liaison to the Senior Partners, because though angry for being used by Wolfram & Hart, she desired power. Lindsey then discovered that Darla had slept with Angel. Holland, surprised by Lindsey's willingness to stand up as his person, welcomed Lindsey back, giving him a raise and his own office. That was what irked me at first about Tara. She said that she was rathersurprised and disappointed uponhearing abou ther character's death. --Help control the idiot population. http://gsoft.smu.edu/ScriptCrypt/crypt.html|same, kgoodnig-4DDDD9@newssvr11-ext.news.prodigy.com, 4E34B160CCD511AC.5999A36C@lp.airnews.net. An interesting thing about Joss is he's not very diplomatic, I like that about him. I've seen other published interviews that say Lindsay Crouse was disappointed to learn her character was destind to die halfway through the season-- i.e. Certainly Tara's role would have been quite different,or maybe there wouldn't have been a Tara at all.