leah
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Post by leah on Nov 3, 2012 19:21:35 GMT -6
So I was going through the Local Mews on the old site Starless and found a thread on annoying characters on Joss Whedon shows.
So I wanted to start a thread here about his shows / movies.
I should mention that the only shows of his I've watched are Buffy the Vampire Slayer (my favorite show), Angel (also my favorite, the two are tied), and Firefly. I haven't watched Dollhouse or Dr. Horrible.
Also, as for his movies, the only movies I know he's written are Toy Story and the Avengers. I've only watched the former and one day I'll watch the latter with my friends.
Besides these I don't know what else he's written, but I figured there should be a thread about him since he's one of my favorite writers who happened to create my two favorite shows in the world and it'd be great to talk about it. :3
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Post by Lady Ten on Nov 3, 2012 22:29:28 GMT -6
oh, heh, that would be my doing. I remember being especially fed up with River Tam.
Even though the main character is... well, a bit of a Firestar, I do recommend checking out Dollhouse. Some of it's dismissible, but the character arc of Topher Brink is spectacular and not to be missed.
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Post by leah on Nov 3, 2012 22:37:00 GMT -6
Yes, I noticed. I know why you say Buffy is annoying (she becomes a whiny butthurt childish human being in Season 6) but why Fred? I can make a few guesses why, as she was rather crazy and annoying when she first appeared (but then again she was in hell), so why was she annoying? (I'd just like to know. Fred was never really my favorite anyway, I liked Illyria much better)
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Post by vbfdoee on Nov 4, 2012 13:02:07 GMT -6
I like Doctor Horrible a lot. I'm not really familiar with the rest of Joss Whedon's work, though I feel a vague hatred for Firefly and its lack of major Chinese characters despite having a setting where, logically, there should be plenty.
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Post by Lady Ten on Nov 6, 2012 22:09:02 GMT -6
It's been a while since I last watched Angel, but from what I remember, Fred was somewhere between damsel in distress, brilliant prodigy, and LOLrandumb in her particular coordinates of obnoxiousness. Also she was supposed to be from Texas and her supposed Texan-ness was weird to me. Mostly she just seemed so... fake, and you were supposed to love her and find her adorable for her cutesy ditzy shyness and crazy genius, and it was intolerable. I just couldn't wrap my head around what the other characters even liked her for. I like Doctor Horrible a lot. I'm not really familiar with the rest of Joss Whedon's work, though I feel a vague hatred for Firefly and its lack of major Chinese characters despite having a setting where, logically, there should be plenty. Oh yeah that is a good point. I used to think Summer Glau looked vaguely Asian, but her supposed fullblood brother is mister white piece of cornbread, so there isn't even that going for them. Within the world that it set up, the Chinese folks looked like much less of a statistical minority than anyone as dark as Zoe. Why weren't there more Chinese main characters?
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