Vilandra
10-25-2005, 07:51 AM
12:00 AM, 25-OCTOBER-05
DVD Wraps Up Point Pleasant
Marti Noxon, creator of Fox's ill-fated supernatural drama Point Pleasant, told SCI FI Wire that the upcoming DVD set of the entire series will include five never-before-seen episodes that will satisfy the show's fans, who were left hanging when Fox pulled the show from its schedule earlier this year. "I appreciate all the fans who have e-mailed me about the series, and some of them already got the last episodes somehow from overseas and told me that they liked the way it all ended," Noxon said in an interview.
Point Pleasant, based in a fictionalized version of the real New Jersey seaside town, centered on a young woman (Elisabeth Harnois) who is rescued at sea and becomes enmeshed in the lives of the townspeople. Eventually, she learns that she may be the daughter of Satan himself. Fox premiered the series in January of this year and pulled it after airing only eight of the 13 produced episodes because of low ratings.
The final five unaired episodes amp up the storyline, and when it looked like the show would be canceled, writers compressed the events of two seasons into one, Noxon said. "We took a beating in the ratings, but then they started to go, and we accelerated the action, and I really wanted her to be fully evil in the second season," Noxon said.
In retrospect, Noxon (formerly executive producer of UPN's Buffy the Vampire Slayer) admitted that the show may have got off to a bad start. "After the first five episodes there was a shift, and we started to get more spooky, and we were taking it away from the soap-opera aspect," she said. "It was getting discombobulated with all the characters. It was The O.C. meets The Omen, but I didn't know what the beach and girls in the bikinis had much to do with anything."
Noxon added: "At first we got lambasted by some of the reviews, and somewhat deservingly. We got off to the wrong start. But when it started getting good, the critics were still being snarky about it and didn't give it another chance. By then, Fox didn't want to promote it anymore."
Noxon said that she is currently working on a series for ABC and another for Fox while rewriting a film for Sam Raimi, which features a character in a mental institution—an element borrowed from Point Pleasant. "I really liked the storyline with Judy's mom, Meg, and how people thought she was crazy because she was hearing her dead daughter," Noxon said. "I did incorporate some of that into the movie."
The Point Pleasant DVD set includes a featurette with Noxon and most of the cast, which was filmed before the series was canceled. "We didn't do a wrap-up interview, but that's OK," Noxon said. "I think it will be nice to see how people will discover the series on DVD for the first time." Point Pleasant: The Complete Series will be released Oct. 25.
Source: SciFiWire (http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire2005/index.php?category=0&id=32994)
Hopefully will give some type of closure to the series :)
DVD Wraps Up Point Pleasant
Marti Noxon, creator of Fox's ill-fated supernatural drama Point Pleasant, told SCI FI Wire that the upcoming DVD set of the entire series will include five never-before-seen episodes that will satisfy the show's fans, who were left hanging when Fox pulled the show from its schedule earlier this year. "I appreciate all the fans who have e-mailed me about the series, and some of them already got the last episodes somehow from overseas and told me that they liked the way it all ended," Noxon said in an interview.
Point Pleasant, based in a fictionalized version of the real New Jersey seaside town, centered on a young woman (Elisabeth Harnois) who is rescued at sea and becomes enmeshed in the lives of the townspeople. Eventually, she learns that she may be the daughter of Satan himself. Fox premiered the series in January of this year and pulled it after airing only eight of the 13 produced episodes because of low ratings.
The final five unaired episodes amp up the storyline, and when it looked like the show would be canceled, writers compressed the events of two seasons into one, Noxon said. "We took a beating in the ratings, but then they started to go, and we accelerated the action, and I really wanted her to be fully evil in the second season," Noxon said.
In retrospect, Noxon (formerly executive producer of UPN's Buffy the Vampire Slayer) admitted that the show may have got off to a bad start. "After the first five episodes there was a shift, and we started to get more spooky, and we were taking it away from the soap-opera aspect," she said. "It was getting discombobulated with all the characters. It was The O.C. meets The Omen, but I didn't know what the beach and girls in the bikinis had much to do with anything."
Noxon added: "At first we got lambasted by some of the reviews, and somewhat deservingly. We got off to the wrong start. But when it started getting good, the critics were still being snarky about it and didn't give it another chance. By then, Fox didn't want to promote it anymore."
Noxon said that she is currently working on a series for ABC and another for Fox while rewriting a film for Sam Raimi, which features a character in a mental institution—an element borrowed from Point Pleasant. "I really liked the storyline with Judy's mom, Meg, and how people thought she was crazy because she was hearing her dead daughter," Noxon said. "I did incorporate some of that into the movie."
The Point Pleasant DVD set includes a featurette with Noxon and most of the cast, which was filmed before the series was canceled. "We didn't do a wrap-up interview, but that's OK," Noxon said. "I think it will be nice to see how people will discover the series on DVD for the first time." Point Pleasant: The Complete Series will be released Oct. 25.
Source: SciFiWire (http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire2005/index.php?category=0&id=32994)
Hopefully will give some type of closure to the series :)