Tell us about the plotting of the episode
I got lucky. Once again,that’s just when my episode came up. Actually, Doug Petrie and I were going back and forth about, "Which episode do you want to do? Do you want to do 20? Do you want to do 21?"
Originally I was scheduled for 20, he was scheduled for 21, and then there was some talk between us. We still didn’t know what the stories were and we decided, "Ah we’ll keep it the same, we’ll see what happens" and it came up, the big episode.
It didn’t start out that way. Originally, everybody was going to be in town, Glory was the big threat and we were going to go from there. We were sitting around after about a week of kicking around the story and Joss comes in and sits down and says, "Okay where are you at" and we’ll tell him, "Maybe this, maybe that". He goes "Hmm, you know what, I think they should leave town in a Winnebago and be chased by the Knights of Byzantium".
I was like "Yes, yes, that is exactly what they should do" because it was just such a cool idea. At the time I had no conception that they would roll out such a big budget and do it in a big Hollywood fashion. We’d always said we’d wanted a Stage Coach kind of scene, with a little road warrior thrown in and that’s exactly what we got. I was very happy when I saw the action footage, because it was big Hollywood stuff.
