Espenson drafts - Gingerbread
The next in my series of draft scripts provided to me by Jane Espenson is Gingerbread. Credited as a co-write with Thania St. John, see below for what that really means.
This spooky little number is a great take on mass hysteria, scapegoating and the dangers of being turned into a rat.
Here is the outline to the episode - note the 'embarrassing parents moment': would love to see that revived somewhere.
Draft one is here.
Draft two
and three
Espenson notes in an email to me (the whole transcript of which will be in my forthcoming book, Joss Whedon, for Manchester Universality Press, the following:
Also, this story has a shared credit. Thania
is a writer who had pitched a witch-burning episode as a freelancer the year
before I joined the staff. They never did the story. Then I suggested that we
do a book-burning episode and the two stories were combined. Since we used
ideas she had brought in, she was given the shared credit. I didn't actually
meet Thania until 2007, when we briefly shared a writers' room at Eureka. Now I see her out on the picket
line, of course [of the WGA strikers].
Also,
I made a long list of other possible acronyms
that could replace SPAM, including POO (Parents Opposed to the Occult) and MAW
(Mothers Against Witches) and lots of others. Joss selected MOO from the list.
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