The "George has doubts about what she was told" was actually inspired by the DLM movie (which really did kind of suck ass). The writers (who I swear didn't watch the original series) had George interacting with Reggie and had her tell Reggie that she needed to move on, and if possible, convince their mother to move out of town. As George watches them leave, they have her voice overing that she was obviously still hanging on to something because she was still a reaper and hadn't moved on.
The other bit was inspired from the "Nighthawks" episode in the original series run, where all the reapers (except George and Rube) have to fill out self-evaluations and the last question they all have to answer is "Why are you here?"
I figured there was enough room in canon to allow George to doubt Rube's theory about how long people are stuck with being a reaper. Since it made sense that Xander would ask, I thought it would be good to play out George's doubts about what actually lets reapers move on.
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Date: 2009-07-31 02:22 am (UTC)The other bit was inspired from the "Nighthawks" episode in the original series run, where all the reapers (except George and Rube) have to fill out self-evaluations and the last question they all have to answer is "Why are you here?"
I figured there was enough room in canon to allow George to doubt Rube's theory about how long people are stuck with being a reaper. Since it made sense that Xander would ask, I thought it would be good to play out George's doubts about what actually lets reapers move on.
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