Any Firefly Fans Become Angel/Buffy Fans?

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MITHEL

Wednesday, October 5, 2005 1:09 PM

Not a chance... Buffy/Angel don't interest me, they seem to be poor works of Joss Whedon. Certainly Joss is extremely talented. But I'm fairly certain now that it was other people and influences that took Whedon's talent and resulted in the phenomenal special nature of Firefly.

SAFEAT2ND

Wednesday, October 5, 2005 2:26 PM

I agree with Spinland and Mithel.

I watched a couple of episodes of Angel. Wasn't too bad nothing to get hooked on like Firefly or House. Wesley was cool and I liked the Guy before Gunn, in the first season, but Buffy??

Sarah just can't act. She's in the same category as Ben Stiller, Tom Green and Wil Farrel, people what should be persuing different lines of work.

I total agree with the dentist drill comparison, although, nails on a chalkboard works too.

Safeat2nd, Chief Handyman of Destiny

CAPTRULZ

Thursday, October 6, 2005 11:53 AM

I like it, Cybershark. I like it a lot!!!

CANTTAKESKY

Thursday, October 6, 2005 12:25 PM

I had never heard of Joss before Firefly. After the first episode of FF, I swore I would follow its writers to the ends of the earth. Then I found out they did Buffy and Angel, which I thought were stupid shows from the few episodes I'd caught. Ugh.

But I swore. So I started at the beginning, and by second season of Buffy, I was hooked. Hooked as in I had to watch the next episode, and the next, and the next. But not hooked where I would watch the show again. Buffy always seemed a bit juvenile/immature to me.

Angel, however, made me run out and buy all 5 DVDs right away. But then I am a big huge fan of David Greenwalt from his FOX cancelled series, "Profit." I absolutely fell in love with "Wonderfalls" and bought that as well. I think Joss' co-writers are brilliant in their own right and in some respects, I prefer their writings sans Joss.

Can't Take My Gorram Sky

CYBERSHARK

Thursday, October 6, 2005 2:16 PM

Captrulz wrote:

>I think Joss' co-writers are brilliant in their own right and in some respects, I prefer their writings sans Joss.

Good observation. However, as I understand it, Joss runs the writers' meetings like an RPG (and guess who the game-master is?) and gives writing credit to whomever it is that actually scrivens the episode down.

Think about it. Firefly runs like a Traveller adventure. Buffy and Angel had a definite Gurpy feel to them. Buffy maintained a teen-ish feeling to it, but that was largely the feedback loop with its demographic. (Veronica Mars has a teen-angst thing going on, but that does not detract from it as good entertainment.)

Notwithstanding the complaint about Buffy's having targeted a teen audience, I do not think anyone (except the Emmy nominators, boo, hiss) that "The Body" is one of the greatest installments of television drama that has hit the screen since the early 1960's. And "Once More With Feeling" is an extraordinary work as well.

Joss Whedon is a gift from God.
Joss Whedon is a gift from God.
Joss Whedon is a gift from God.
Joss Whedon is a gift from God.
Joss Whedon is a gift from God.

DIETCOKE

Thursday, October 6, 2005 3:17 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by canttakesky:
I had never heard of Joss before Firefly. After the first episode of FF, I swore I would follow its writers to the ends of the earth. Then I found out they did Buffy and Angel, which I thought were stupid shows from the few episodes I'd caught. Ugh.

But I swore. So I started at the beginning, and by second season of Buffy, I was hooked. Hooked as in I had to watch the next episode, and the next, and the next. But not hooked where I would watch the show again. Buffy always seemed a bit juvenile/immature to me.

Angel, however, made me run out and buy all 5 DVDs right away. But then I am a big huge fan of David Greenwalt from his FOX cancelled series, "Profit." I absolutely fell in love with "Wonderfalls" and bought that as well. I think Joss' co-writers are brilliant in their own right and in some respects, I prefer their writings sans Joss.

Can't Take My Gorram Sky

I love Profit! I own it as well. It is truely brilliant. I know why Joss hired him!

NY/NJ Browncoats: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/firefly_nyc

KWICKO

Friday, October 7, 2005 4:12 AM

Any Firefly Fans Become Angel/Buffy Fans?

For me, it was the other way 'round. Until a few months ago (June '05), I'd never seen a single episode of ANY of the three shows. I'd heard of them, of course, but never felt compelled to watch; maybe they were up against something else I wanted to see, or maybe I was just too wrapped up in work...

Anyway, I found myself on "sabbatical" in June, having burned out and flamed out on my old job, and just needed some mindless entertainment. I found "Buffy" - it was about midway through Season 3 on FX at the time - and watched a couple episodes. The characters (particularly "Bad Willow" when she was a vampire) pulled me in, and I started watching and taping it. Within a week I was hooked; within another week, my wife was hooked as well! We kept watching, then started buying previous seasons on DVD so we could get completely caught up. Now we've got Seasons 1 thru 4 of Buffy, all 5 seasons of Angel, and then a friend told me about "Firefly". Figuring at this point that Whedon could do no wrong, I went right out and bought the DVD set. By the second episode, I was hooked, completely. By the end, I was terribly sad to see it go, but by then I knew "Serenity" was coming to the big screen.

I didn't realize David Greenwalt was behind "Wonderfalls" or "Profit". I never saw "Profit" (or even heard of it when it was on), but I saw a couple episodes of Wonderfalls, and then it was gone. I'll have to look for those two series on DVD as well.

It's funny... I'm 43 years old, and I feel like a "fanboy"! :) I give full credit (or blame) to Joss Whedon for doing that to me. And I thank him profusely.

Mike

Grrrrrr. Arrrrgh.

ANGELICANGEL

Friday, October 7, 2005 4:14 AM

Hi I was an Buffy and Angel fan before I even knew Firefly existed I didnt know about Firefly untill last year when I was on a Buffy and Angel Board and people kept talking about Firefly and Serenity and I asked what it was and they told me and guess what happened next?

AngelicAngel

DIETCOKE

Friday, October 7, 2005 2:18 PM

Wait 'til you see Profit. You'll know what Joss hired him!

Hey, I just turned fan girl in my 40s too!

NY/NJ Browncoats: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/firefly_nyc

CHRISISALL

Saturday, October 8, 2005 1:22 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by JRC:
Now comes Angel, which I've heard is just as good as BtVS.

It is, just a little more on the grown-up side.
I'm just now watching Angel's second season, it's better than the first!

ChrisisAngelus

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