Um, favour, having read this screed, can one of the lesbian feminist sisters reading this, or indeed anyone with an interest[ 1], especially those of you that said you liked Firefly please confirm my suspicion that A Rapist's View of the World: Joss Whedon and Firefly is in fact an ill-informed biased rant of the sort that can give decent feminists ( Read more... )

From today's Popbitch newsletter, PB :: "An atrium of gayness"
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Joss Whedon's long awaited UK based Buffy spin-off ( Read more... )

tyrell gives us an interesting quote: When asked about the quality of television today he made a comment that "Nothing on TV has ever been as good as (the new) Battlestar Galactica."!
Who said that, you ask? Joss Whedon. The guy who made Buffy, Angel, Firefly. The one that Uncle Rusty is trying to copy, rather than learn from and build upon ( Read more... )

Imagine modern television without the works of Joss Whedon and those he's influenced. Imagine no Buffy, Angel, Firefly or derivatives such as Charmed. Imagine fewer arc plots, less 'empowered female' characters, less cool. Horrible, isn't it. You just imagined a world in which The Lost Boys was never made.
( Sleep all day )