Quote:Personally, I doubt I'd like the movie as it is - but I've read through a script of Joss's original version, before the not-quite-a-hackjob by the film's backers; it is indeed worthy of the rest of the franchise, more so I think than some fragments of the TV series.
The movie has the fossil origins of the TV show's repartee. You can see its roots, and its potential.
And I also think that the script I've seen which purports to be the original version of the final episode of "Buffy" would have been better than what they finally did... it would have tied up several loose ends left dangling from earlier in the season, added a few cool scenes, and left the ending open for more. (Assuming the script to be legitimate, this last is probably why they didn't use it.)