Spoiler Slayer

Since the shoot sheets aren't being made public anymore, there have been very few actual Shooting Location reports. Somehow, BBOvenGuy managed to find out where one was, and his report was posted at the Kitten Board.

Anyway, the location was once again down in the Stoner Park area near Santa Monica. In fact, the vantage point from where I was standing tonight was almost the exact spot where Tara and Anya met April the robot last year. Ah memories...

Unfortunately, for the most part this shoot was dull, dull, unbelievably dull. It was for Episode #11, and David Fury was there being the director. As far as I could tell, there's some sort of mystical invisible force running amuck in Sunnydale, and one way we find out this mystical invisible force exists is when it makes this aluminum can go rolling and/or bouncing down the street. There they were, messing around with this can that had a string tied to it, and as the cameras rolled they tugged on the string and made the can bounce this way and that. It must have gone on for over an hour.

There were also these three extra-types, two men and a woman, and at one point they were filmed walking down the street and reacting as the mystical invisible force passed between them.

I was thinking about calling it an early night, but there were a couple of Production Assistants standing there with us, and I was trying to hear what they were saying. Rumor had it that SMG would be working tonight. Then word came that Alyson had been seen working on the standing Sunnydale street set, which is a few blocks away from Stoner Park at the studio where they film the show. Then there were rumblings that Aly would be on her way over to Stoner Park for the shoot. I decided to hold out a little longer.

Finally they finish shooting the silly dancing aluminum can. The PA's and the other spectators are still chatting, but I'm looking down the street trying to see what was going on. Finally I notice someone actor-like walking around and being followed by a camera. Was it Aly? It sort of looked like her, but her hair wasn't as red as when I'd seen her last month shooting the musical. It wasn't until another of the spectators brought out her portable TV and tuned it in to the camera feed (a nifty trick, btw) that I could tell for sure.

It was Aly!

Okay, sartorial report - Long tan/brown colored coat, not duster-length but getting there. Dark gray pants, I think (she was far away). Her hair was straight, and as I said it wasn't as red as it was in the musical.

They only shot two scenes with Aly. Apparently Willow is out looking for something. She walks up to this house, and it looks like she checks an address or something on a piece of paper. Her face looks tense and drawn, as if something sinister is going on. She walks up to the house, then walks past the house and goes back toward something behind it.

And that was it. They wrapped for the night.

What's Willow up to? What's behind that house? What's this mysterious can-dancing force doing in Sunnydale? We'll have to wait a while before we find out.

But at least it was something - and in these days of no-shoot-sheet, even a little something is something.

Can much be read into this, I'm not sure. On one hand, I would think that Willow cast some spell to locate something. Which is that invisible force thing that Willow is following. Then again, what's with the piece of paper that she is reading. The other alternative is that it's still a following spell, but it's part of an invite which Willow received. It's obvious that this is just vague enough to whet our appetites, but nothing that we can fit into current spoilers.