MC: Maybe that’s my headline: If you like Gran…
DT: If you’re a Gran fan, this is the only place you’re going to see her.
MH: That was nice. We had a lot of freedom to work with a lot of characters that maybe are gone now, so that really helps.
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MC: Another freedom you have is you can get a lot more graphic than you can on a TV show even though HBO is pretty out there.
MH: They’ve done some great stuff.
DT: We’ve had some fun with the violence and the sex – still keeping it appropriate, but we had fun as well.
MH: It’s always fun to have their permission to do that because this is not a property where they worried about of really five-year olds pick it up. It’s something where we can be like the show. You can have the creative cursing and you can have creatures ripping people’s heads off. That’s fun to do, and especially with because – it’s such a worn out phrase – but the ability to do things without a budget. We could have a multi-armed monster that works on the world.
DT: There’s a T-shirt of the monster. His tentacles come out and his jaw kind of unhinges, and there’s teeth, and it’s great.
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MC: How does this compare to the previous projects you’ve worked on?
DT: I’ve done some other licensed stuff. Mariah and I are doing essentially season six of Angel, part of it.
MC: I’m actually a bigger Angel fan than Buffy.
DT: Some of the stuff we’re doing is really, really fun. It gets to the core of Angel.
MH: Brian Lynch started it. His story picks up with the last episode. We’re actually going to be doing the last arc because Dark Horse is getting that property real soon.
DT: I’m working on Angel now, and I’ve worked on Angel in the past. I’ve also done Star Trek, so all of those have been licensed properties. I’ve done vampires before too. This is really fun because it’s actually on the air right now, and there is an immediacy of the fan base. You’re talking to fans
MH: Who are really excited about a show that’s currently on.
DT: You can have that what happened last Sunday and how is that going to affect what you’re doing now conversation. So it’s been really exciting.
MH: What is great about seeing the show is being able to say, “Oh I wonder if this moment, which they couldn’t do more with, I wonder how we can work that into this kind of thing and take that character to that kind of thing.” That is one of the cool things about having something on right now that isn’t finished, being able to go, “Oh I wonder where they’re going to take that and do we have room to sort of do this thing and that thing?”