Hallo Cypher,
ja, das fand ich auch furchtbar (obwohl ich nie Angel gesehen habe mangels Fernseher, aber alle englischen scripts gleich lese ) … aber da kommst schnell drüber hinweg, weil die kommenden Folgen wirklich gut sind!
Also: Es war offensichtlich eine Entscheidung von „Erfinder“, Schreiber und Produzenten Joss Whedon. Ich hab Dir ein paar Zitate (alle in Englisch) rausgesucht und häng sie dir unten an. Ansonsten kannst einfach in Suchmaschine mal „Joss Whedon Doyle“ eingeben, dann wirst Du mit Ergebnissen zugeschüttet.
Es gibt regelrechte „Bring back Doyle“-Bewegungen. Aber: no chance. Joss Whedon hat klar und deutlich verneint, dass Doyle zurückkommt.
Wenn Du Englisch liest, dann guck Dir auch mal diese beiden Websites an (vielleicht kennst du sie ja schon):
http://www.psyche.kn-bremen.de/
(transcripts Angel/Buffy)
http://www.cityofangel.com/
offizielle website zu Angel
Viel Spaß noch
Gitte
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http://www.fanforum.com/buffy//news/438.shtml
Even Joss Whedon is talking about the departure of Doyle (David Quinn) on Angel. While talking to Eon Magazine, Whedon was asked about the plethora of rumors regarding Doyle prompting the response, „Well, our big surprise has been ruined. We had a thing going where we were gonna take away [Angel’s] mentor figure – shake up his life a little bit. Then, of course, it got out as it always does. But, yes, this was our idea from the beginning.“
http://www.etonline.com/html/Interviews/Joss5.html
Doyle’s not coming back. You heard it here, not first, but finally.
(Joss Whedon)
http://uk.geocities.com/catecumen/doyle.html
„Change is always good.“ Some fans might not agree with that axiom. Especially those who liked Doyle (Glenn Quinn), Angel’s half-demon helper. Doyle was killed off in the episode „Hero“ and was replaced by Buffy’s ex-„watcher,“ Wesley (Alexis Denisof).
Doyle symbolized Angel’s „tormented past. The show has taken on a different attitude.“ In the beginning of the series, Doyle had visions that led Angel to a new person in need of help each week - the idea being that if Angel helps enough souls, his will be redeemed. Since Doyle’s death, however, the show has become more of an ensemble effort, with Angel, Wesley and Cordelia (Charisma Carpenter) - who has inherited Doyle’s visions - fighting evil as a group, rather than focusing on Angel’s quest for redemption.
Though he’s happy about the direction the show has taken, Boreanaz has strong feelings about Quinn’s departure. „I thoroughly miss him every day. He’s a great guy to work with as a friend and as a worker. So I take it as a sad change, but it’ll work.“
(David Boreanaz)
http://uk.geocities.com/catecumen/doyle.html
„If the death of Doyle was in Joss Whedon’s mind from the beginning, I honestly don’t know,“ says consulting producer Howard Gordon, who along with Tim Minear wrote „Hero“, which did, indeed, mark Doyle’s death. „While he didn’t say ‚We’re gonna kill him,‘ he did say ‚We could kill him if we want to.‘ It was more of a fluid understanding that this character was a try-out in a way. In the end, I think they felt how much more bold it was to develop this character and then kill him. What it does is create a way of handling the fact that, generally, in television you know that nothing is safe, which is kind of cool.“
As to the genesis of the episode, Gordon explains, „The question we started with was how do you describe the fact that this guy is half demon and half human. I think we took the character and dissected him at that basic level, and reverse engineered the story to illuminate that.“
„I can’t say I take any pleasure in killing a lead character,“ Gordon says. „Creatively it was a decision we came to. I think it’s more luck of the draw than a willful decision. I’m not a character assassin.“
And check out the final moments of „Hero,“ when Doyle turns to Cordelia, gives her a kiss and transfers something to her. It’s a moment reminiscent of Spock and McCoy’s „Remember“ sequence at the conclusion of Star Trek II. Recalls Gordon, „We were definitely aware of The Wrath of Khan when we wrote the ending.“