I never said he had no control. I said he was involved less. To clarify, in prior seasons there would have been no need to review the beating scene because he would have been there. Gellar herself commented on his absence. She went to him about the Dead Things balcony scene because she didn't understand it and, rumor has it, might have complained to someone over it. But he talked her into it by explained the character was lost. A more notable instance perhaps is the Beneath You rewrite that she took to him to get changed.
I'm not talking about network restrictions, but the ability of actors (and to a lesser extent, directors) to have influence. Gellar's contact only allowed a certain amount of hours, for instance, leading to the Gone plot. There would be no firing a la Charisma Carpenter.
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Date: 2012-01-14 11:37 pm (UTC)I never said he had no control. I said he was involved less. To clarify, in prior seasons there would have been no need to review the beating scene because he would have been there. Gellar herself commented on his absence. She went to him about the Dead Things balcony scene because she didn't understand it and, rumor has it, might have complained to someone over it. But he talked her into it by explained the character was lost. A more notable instance perhaps is the Beneath You rewrite that she took to him to get changed.
I'm not talking about network restrictions, but the ability of actors (and to a lesser extent, directors) to have influence. Gellar's contact only allowed a certain amount of hours, for instance, leading to the Gone plot. There would be no firing a la Charisma Carpenter.