David
Fury
Co-Executive Producer
Despite a reputation for disliking Spike and his fans, David Fury has written several very prominent Spike episodes, including not only 4 of Spike’s 10 most prominent episodes, but the most prominent Spike episode, the Buffy the vampire slayer episode Crush(111). Such a trend has continued over into Angel, where Fury is now partly responsible for the top two prominent Spike episodes thus far, Just Rewards(98) (with Ben Edlund) is Spike’s second most prominent episode (after Crush), whilst Destiny(88) (with Steven DeKnight) ranks as his joint fifth highest, despite this, Angel won both these episodes with two 100 breaking scores, 109 for Just Rewards and 105 for Destiny. Fury has penned a total of 10 Angel episodes (4 were co-written), Lonely Hearts, an Angel 100 line breaking episode, Parting Gifts (with Jeannie Renshaw) another episode won by Angel(79), Disharmony, won by Cordy, but also Harmony’s most prevalent episode at 75 lines. The Price, again won by Angel. The House Always Wins, a surprising ensemble, actually won by Gunn, but that also saw Fred and Lorne doing well, Awakening, co-written with Steve DeKnight is another Angel 100 line breaker, whilst Action Packed Salvage saw Faith winning the episode, closely followed by Wes. Finally Peace Out was won surprisingly by season 4 big bad Jasmine, but also featured prominent Connor. So its fair to say Fury’s favouritism has been a little random over the years. Whilst Angel is no doubt less likely to win a Fury penned episode, if he does he wins it comfortably (Four out of Angel’s 6 victory’s have been 100 line breakers, and Angel has only broken the 100 line boundary ten times). One Character to look out for in a David Fury episode is Harmony, Fury rated her as his second favourite character at the Comic Con, after Faith, and she is the only character that Fury has won the “most pro” award for (on Buffy), though such favouritism has so far failed to transfer over to Angel season 5 to any great extent.
David Fury came to
the staff of Mutant Enemy in an
unusual way, turning down a full time job offer not once but twice. Initially
offered a job in season 1 of Buffy,
he turned it down to take up another job, but following the cancellation of
that series he wrote a freelance Buffy
script with wife and former writing partner Ellin
Hampton (Go Fish), again
offered the chance to join the staff of Buffy,
he again turned it down, this time to spend more time with his family, he did
however continue to write freelance and in season 3 penned Helpless and Choices
(both solo). With a third job offer Fury finally succumbed, joining not only to Buffy as Producer, but agreeing to write the
second episode of Angel (Lonely Hearts). He continued to occasionally
write for Angel for the first three
seasons, often bought in when Buffy
characters crossed over for the first time (Wes
in Parting Gifts and Harmony in Disharmony)
but also when the lack of available writers necessitated (The Price). In Season 4 his part time gig was
made official and he joined the staff of Angel
as Consulting Producer (a part time position), though in fact he penned more
episodes of Angel that year than in his full time job at Buffy, penning The
House Always Wins, Awakening (with
Steve DeKnight), Salvage and Peace
Out. With the end of Buffy,
Fury joined the writing staff full time
as Co-Executive Producer (a rank he held at Buffy
for the last two seasons), and he has thus far co-written two episodes. Fury is also an actor, he actually regards
acting as his profession with writing as a sideline, though he’s sideline has
certainly been the more successful avenue. He has however made cameo roles in
both Buffy (Once More With Feeling, Selfless) and Angel
(Reprise). Fury will write and direct episode 12, Your Welcome (the One Hundredth episode).
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
|
|
Character |
Played |
Gold |
Silver |
Bronze |
Average |
Medals |
Lines |
|
1 |
Buffy A. Summers |
14.33 |
10.83 |
1 |
0 |
78.15 |
11.83 |
1120 |
|
2 |
Willow Rosenburg |
14.33 |
1 |
4 |
2.83 |
37.84 |
7.83 |
542.33 |
|
3 |
Xander L. Harris |
14.33 |
1 |
2.5 |
0 |
32.77 |
3.5 |
469.67 |
|
4 |
Rupert Giles |
12.33 |
0 |
2.5 |
1 |
30.12 |
3.5 |
371.5 |
|
5 |
Spike |
10.83 |
0.5 |
1.5 |
0 |
31.48 |
2 |
341 |
|
6 |
Dawn Summers |
8.5 |
0 |
1 |
1.5 |
25.00 |
2.5 |
212.5 |
|
7 |
Anya C. E. Jenkins |
11.5 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
17.95 |
1 |
206.5 |
|
8 |
Riley Finn |
5.33 |
0 |
0.33 |
2 |
31.83 |
2.33 |
169.67 |
|
9 |
Tara Maclay |
6.5 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
13.15 |
0 |
85.5 |
|
10 |
Warren Meers |
1.5 |
0 |
0.5 |
0 |
**** |
0.5 |
70.5 |
|
11 |
Andrew Wells |
4 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
17.37 |
0 |
69.5 |
|
12 |
Joyce Summers |
6 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
11.50 |
0 |
69 |
|
13 |
Harmony Kendall |
2 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
**** |
1 |
62 |
|
14 |
Johnathan Levinson |
3 |
0 |
0 |
0.5 |
18.50 |
0.5 |
55.5 |
|
15 |
Danile ‘Oz’ Osbourne |
3 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
18.00 |
0 |
54 |
|
16 |
Angel |
2.5 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
**** |
0 |
37.5 |
|
17 |
Drusilla |
1.5 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
**** |
0 |
31 |
|
18 |
Cordelia Chase |
2.5 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
**** |
0 |
30 |
|
19 |
Faith |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
**** |
0 |
23 |
|
20 |
Principal R Snyder |
1.5 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
**** |
0 |
17 |
Averages
only given for 3 episodes or more
Lines divided evenly for
co-credited scripts
Angel the Series
|
|
Character |
Played |
Gold |
Silver |
Bronze |
Average |
Medals |
Lines |
|
1 |
Angel |
8 |
4 |
1 |
3 |
74.12 |
8 |
593 |
|
2 |
Cordelia Chase |
5 |
1 |
2 |
0 |
49.70 |
3 |
248.5 |
|
3 |
Charles Gunn |
6.5 |
1 |
0 |
1.5 |
35.07 |
2.5 |
228 |
|
4 |
Wesley Wyndam Price |
6.5 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
30.84 |
2 |
200.5 |
|
5 |
Winifred 'Fred' Burkle |
5.5 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
32.00 |
1 |
176 |
|
6 |
Krevlorneswath 'Lorne' of the Deathwok clan |
6.5 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
18.07 |
0 |
117.5 |
|
7 |
Jasmine |
2.5 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
**** |
1 |
97 |
|
8 |
Connor Angel |
4.5 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
20.66 |
1 |
93 |
|
9 |
Spike |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
**** |
0 |
93 |
|
10 |
Harmony Kendall |
2 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
**** |
0 |
91 |
|
11 |
Kate Lockley |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
**** |
1 |
61 |
|
12 |
Alan F. Doyle |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
**** |
1 |
49 |
|
13 |
Faith |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
**** |
1 |
48 |
|
14 |
Lilah Morgan |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
**** |
0 |
11 |
|
15 |
Willow Rosenburg |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
**** |
0 |
7 |
|
16 |
Drusilla |
0.5 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
**** |
0 |
5 |
|
17 |
Buffy A. Summers |
0.5 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
**** |
0 |
1 |
|
18 |
Lindsey MacDonnald |
0.5 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
**** |
0 |
0.5 |
Averages
only given for 3 episodes or more
Lines divided evenly for
co-credited scripts
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