Fannish5: pain or gain?

[selenak]

Five characters that replaced departing characters, and whether you considered each a gain or a loss.

Right then. I think we'll have to exclude Doctor Who for obvious reasons, such as the freakin' format of the show since decades. So, let's see:

1) Anya in Buffy The Vampire Slayer, who essentially filled the Cordelia-shaped gap from season 4

Comments

[londonkds]

The only thing that makes me uncomfortable about Dr Billy in the final episodes of American Gothic is wondering whether the actor knew he was meant to be playing a twit, or whether he thought he was playing an handsome badass and had some horrible realisation afterwards.

[selenak]

I suspect it was the later. After all, they had to cast on short notice, and the network probably handed out "wanted: handsome heroic leading man" ads. Now some actors

[ulkis]

I remember not hating Wesley on Buffy, but I was dismayed that he was joining Angel because I was afraid the show wasn't going to be able to come up with a good original character on its own. Thankfully I was very wrong about that!

And Sikozu was one of the best things about season 4. I still can't believe she and Scorpius had so much chemistry together. Before she came the idea of Scorpius having sexual chemistry with anyone would have boggled my mind (although I guess those scenes with John in the third season finale came close . . . ). The only thing I missed about Jool was the friendship between her and Chiana, but overall I think Sikozu was the more interesting character.