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The Knight's Parable: SMG Unmasked
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Madlove
Aug 22, 2012, 11:23:18 PM8/22/12
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This is the article that Jeff Pruitt wrote concerning his time on Buffy.
Lotta venom here, folks.
(The Players)
The Knight: Jeff Pruitt
The Handmaiden: Sophia Crawford
The King: Joss Whedon
The Princess: Sarah Michelle Gellar
The General: ??? David Solomon ??? David Greenwalt ???
The Sheriff: ??? David Greenwalt ??? David Fury ???
The People of the Bronze/Land of the Bronze:
Members of The Bronze (http://www.bronzebeta.com/) posting board.
http://web.archive.org/web/20000619003429/http://www.mcs.net/~jcomroe/Knight.html
---
And Whedon's rebuttal...
joss says:
(Wed May 17 12:11:11 2000 205.188.200.36)
I had meant to do a quick lurk, but I see the board has heated up. (Hi,
Fury. Isn't not breaking story FUN?)
I read the Parable of the Knight. Felt I ought to comment on the
situation. Yes, Jeff is leaving. It's sad. Jeff was a huge asset to
Buffy -- he took it to a new level of action and grace with Sophia, and
his style will always be a part of the show.
But this isn't a fairy tale. Or a thinly veiled 'parable'. It's a hard,
gruelingly hard job, ten months a year, thirteen hours a day, with fifty
or more people straining, working, getting in each other's face,
stepping on each other's toes, driving each other crazy. It happens. And
the only thing that keeps it together is the effort people make to work
together. Doesn't always happen.
There are conflicts, raging egos -- and even occasional backstabbing,
I'm sorry to say. There are very few 'plots', and as far as I can tell,
no jousting of any kind. People just wear on each other and eventually
sometimes you have to make a change. No one's to blame -- or everyone
is. But either people get into a groove of working as part of the whole
or they don't.
And seeing yourself as a noble knight being plotted against by evil
courtiers really doesn't help. Remember that.
If you want to read more, check out the Pruitt's May 17, May 22, and
June 22 posts at The Bronze
(http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~hsiao/media/tv/buffy/bronze/archives/2000q2.html)
the night of, and the days after, his departure.
And for more from the cast and crew, the Bronze VIP Archive
(http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~hsiao/media/tv/buffy/bronze/archives/),
featuring posts by Joss, David Fury, Alyson Hannigan, Amber Benson, Marc
Blucas, and others!
---
About James Marsters: "James Marsters was asked about kissing John
Barrowman on Torchwood.
He said kissing a guy you like is easier work than kissing a woman you
don't.
I think the whole audience assumed he meant SMG."
Lotta venom here, folks.
(The Players)
The Knight: Jeff Pruitt
The Handmaiden: Sophia Crawford
The King: Joss Whedon
The Princess: Sarah Michelle Gellar
The General: ??? David Solomon ??? David Greenwalt ???
The Sheriff: ??? David Greenwalt ??? David Fury ???
The People of the Bronze/Land of the Bronze:
Members of The Bronze (http://www.bronzebeta.com/) posting board.
http://web.archive.org/web/20000619003429/http://www.mcs.net/~jcomroe/Knight.html
---
And Whedon's rebuttal...
joss says:
(Wed May 17 12:11:11 2000 205.188.200.36)
I had meant to do a quick lurk, but I see the board has heated up. (Hi,
Fury. Isn't not breaking story FUN?)
I read the Parable of the Knight. Felt I ought to comment on the
situation. Yes, Jeff is leaving. It's sad. Jeff was a huge asset to
Buffy -- he took it to a new level of action and grace with Sophia, and
his style will always be a part of the show.
But this isn't a fairy tale. Or a thinly veiled 'parable'. It's a hard,
gruelingly hard job, ten months a year, thirteen hours a day, with fifty
or more people straining, working, getting in each other's face,
stepping on each other's toes, driving each other crazy. It happens. And
the only thing that keeps it together is the effort people make to work
together. Doesn't always happen.
There are conflicts, raging egos -- and even occasional backstabbing,
I'm sorry to say. There are very few 'plots', and as far as I can tell,
no jousting of any kind. People just wear on each other and eventually
sometimes you have to make a change. No one's to blame -- or everyone
is. But either people get into a groove of working as part of the whole
or they don't.
And seeing yourself as a noble knight being plotted against by evil
courtiers really doesn't help. Remember that.
If you want to read more, check out the Pruitt's May 17, May 22, and
June 22 posts at The Bronze
(http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~hsiao/media/tv/buffy/bronze/archives/2000q2.html)
the night of, and the days after, his departure.
And for more from the cast and crew, the Bronze VIP Archive
(http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~hsiao/media/tv/buffy/bronze/archives/),
featuring posts by Joss, David Fury, Alyson Hannigan, Amber Benson, Marc
Blucas, and others!
---
About James Marsters: "James Marsters was asked about kissing John
Barrowman on Torchwood.
He said kissing a guy you like is easier work than kissing a woman you
don't.
I think the whole audience assumed he meant SMG."
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