I have your answer about the Tim Minear and Connor as Christ question. I couldn't find a link so I transcribed it. It's on the DVD Lullaby commentary with Mere Smith and Tim Minear:
Mere: I also really liked this with Fred there. I got the Virgin Mary imagery. Tim: We have smart Christian imagery here. The reason Fred is in this scene was because I didn’t want Angel or Darla to cry. Because that would feel pathetic and maudlin. But I wanted somebody there who could represent the tears and represent the audience, which is why I put Fred into the mix. So she could actually do this as she’s doing. Also I wrote it so that Fred could be holding this coat over Darla so that there’s not rain falling on her. Well that looked ridiculous. So I just sort of had her put the coat over her head and suddenly she did look like the Virgin Mary. So while I’d love to take credit for this Christian imagery and this virgin birth. It was a fluke. I realized this as it was happening and I certainly milked it, and I thought it worked kind of well.
And my three things:
1. I need to get my hair cut. When my hair gets long the curls start to weigh down my hair and it gets flat. But I love having long hair so I always put it off.
2. OMG there was just a centipede in my apartment!! I am very afraid of bugs and couldn't pull myself together quickly enough to kill it. It's disappeared. WHERE DID IT GO?!!! This is when I hate living alone (most of the time I love it) because there's no one around to dispose of bugs for me.
3. One of my favourite quotes is, of course: "Will you please call me Cordelia?" she said earnestly. "Call you Cordelia! Is that your name?" "No-o-o, it's not exactly my name, but I would love to be called Cordelia. It's such a perfectly elegant name."
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Mere: I also really liked this with Fred there. I got the Virgin Mary imagery.
Tim: We have smart Christian imagery here. The reason Fred is in this scene was because I didn’t want Angel or Darla to cry. Because that would feel pathetic and maudlin. But I wanted somebody there who could represent the tears and represent the audience, which is why I put Fred into the mix. So she could actually do this as she’s doing. Also I wrote it so that Fred could be holding this coat over Darla so that there’s not rain falling on her. Well that looked ridiculous. So I just sort of had her put the coat over her head and suddenly she did look like the Virgin Mary. So while I’d love to take credit for this Christian imagery and this virgin birth. It was a fluke. I realized this as it was happening and I certainly milked it, and I thought it worked kind of well.
And my three things:
1. I need to get my hair cut. When my hair gets long the curls start to weigh down my hair and it gets flat. But I love having long hair so I always put it off.
2. OMG there was just a centipede in my apartment!! I am very afraid of bugs and couldn't pull myself together quickly enough to kill it. It's disappeared. WHERE DID IT GO?!!! This is when I hate living alone (most of the time I love it) because there's no one around to dispose of bugs for me.
3. One of my favourite quotes is, of course: "Will you please call me Cordelia?" she said earnestly.
"Call you Cordelia! Is that your name?"
"No-o-o, it's not exactly my name, but I would love to be called Cordelia. It's such a perfectly elegant name."