Is Joss Whedon a one trick pony?
POSTED BY: AngusThermopyle
UPDATED: Sunday, March 26, 2006 18:03
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The only person who can decide what is "offensive" to me is -- uh -- me.
And when I find something personally offensive, I avoid it. That's exactly my point. I can talk with a person and they can voice their opinion that 'Mrs Reynolds' is a better episode than 'Out of Gas'. I wont deny their opinion because they see it that way. I don't find it offensive. It is just a point of view different from mine and I wont say they are wrong. However if that same person where to say to me 'all muslims are terrorists' (by the way I am not Muslim in fact I have no religous beliefs at all), that person has stepped over a line and I will tell them they are wrong in what they are saying because for a start it is factualy incorrect and all a comment like that does is feed hatred. Never say a person is wrong or deny their opinions until you know they are wrong or moraly incorrect.
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A few good points, but it seems to me you're generalizing off the basis of a few episodes. Judge as a whole. River is definitely not the another cliche version of Buffy. Like others said, he's been building her up since the series. Even the small intricate things like "They come in two, with hands of blue" or whatever it is she quotes -- if anyone notices, them be the people that're chasing after River and nearly catch her in Ariel. Nearly EVERYTHING River says is relevant to something in the series.
I think after every series he creates, he spots his errors and works on them. Buffy we had Druscilla, with her bizarre rantings which he gave in similiarity to River, although her rants actually have merit behind them; most are glimpses to what's about to happen, or has happened.
I don't think he's a one trick pony. Anyway I'd type more but I'm sick as a dog and going to bed. :)
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Originally posted by Tankin:
A few good points, but it seems to me you're generalizing off the basis of a few episodes. Judge as a whole. River is definitely not the another cliche version of Buffy. Like others said, he's been building her up since the series. Even the small intricate things like "They come in two, with hands of blue" or whatever it is she quotes -- if anyone notices, them be the people that're chasing after River and nearly catch her in Ariel. Nearly EVERYTHING River says is relevant to something in the series.
I think after every series he creates, he spots his errors and works on them. Buffy we had Druscilla, with her bizarre rantings which he gave in similiarity to River, although her rants actually have merit behind them; most are glimpses to what's about to happen, or has happened.
I don't think he's a one trick pony. Anyway I'd type more but I'm sick as a dog and going to bed. :)
Well, of course I was generalising to a certain extent, but I was generalising over the body of work, no a couple of episodes or one series. I was talking more about the teenage martial arts expert that seems to be in everything JW does. I find the fight scenes the least interesing parts of any of his series.
I think JW's real talent lies in dialogue and humour. He has a rare (for an American. Sorry guys, but it's true.) sense of irony and his own style. I think this is especially so in Angel and Firefly (not so much in Serenity imho). I noticed that shiny as an adjective in series 3 of Angel. I'm not sure if that was the same time as he was working on FF and I never saw it on TV. I bought it on DVD without seeing any of it first except a trailer on a Buffy DVD.
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