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Bass_X0 posted...

Charisma Carpenter was pregnant so Cordelia had to be written out of the show.

she was pregnant during season 4
and joss got mad that she got pregnant without his permission (yes seriously this was a well known hissy fit from him even back when the episodes were originally airing)

and on one hand it did cause some hastily written rewrites
some things that had to be cut were a swordfight between evil cordelia and angel which was supposed to be a throwback to season 2 of buffy where angelus and buffy fought with swords. and cordelia was supposed to be the one to kill jasmine.

but even then that only affected season 4. there was no excuse to drop her from the opening title and only use her in a single episode of season 5 just to kill her off despite promising charisma carpenter she wasnt coming back just to be killed off