Joanna Robinson

Okay, so something that we had talked about in our part one is I promised you I would get my ducks in a row about sort of what the initial plan for the season was versus what we got because we both agree that the initiative as a plot line is not really a stunner and sort of what happened with the big bad and all of that this season.

So the answer is there isn't like a clear, clear answer because there's some conflicting reports.

But what...

Lindsey Krauss, who played Professor Maggie Walsh, said on my pal Jenny and Kristen's podcast, Buffering Podcast, only a couple of years ago, was like, contrary to popular belief, I did not ask to leave Buffy mid-season.

That was sort of the story that went around for a while.

Two weeks before I was killed off, Joss called me and was like, we're going to kill you off.

So she was like, that was not my call to make.

They decided they didn't want me.

Here's a Marty Noxon quote from, I think, around season six is when she gave this quote to Entertainment Weekly.

She said about Professor Maggie Walsh potentially being the big bad of season four, she said there were a lot of things that we were going to do and never did.

In season four, Maggie was going to be much more of a mother figure for Riley.

Introducing to another girl to lure him away from Buffy, we thought it would create some Shakespearean jealousy.

And then we went, eh.

Forget it.

But most of the changes throughout the series have had to do with actors coming and going.

We had a lot more planned for Seth Green, for example, but his departure to do films opened the door for Tara, which is something we never expected.

And there would have been far more Angel Buffy angst if he hadn't gotten his own show.

So, like...

Is that appealing to you, this idea of like, Doug Petrie, another Buffy writer, has said it was always their plan to have Adam kill Maggie.

He did not in that interview say when he was going to do that.