ONTD Original: Foreshadowing of Future Events in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

[ummnothx]

Hello again, Lovelies!

Welcome to the 9th installment of the ONTD Original Series: Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Comments

[sarahvma]

I feel like Russell T. Davies once said that he'd intentionally drop a handful of potential plot threads around various episodes and then decide later which ones to pick up so everything always looked flawlessly planned.

The Dawn stuff is interesting, though, because at the time I assumed they had just thrown her in to try to win back a younger audience.

[somebellend]

RTD facing numerous plot holes left, right and centre is still a better shout than Weed-On. Which, as someone who's screamed into the RTD void plenty of times over the last 15 years, ought to say something about Whedon being a useless shite.

[sarahvma]

I think the main thing is that RTD knows how to stick the landing, regardless of how many things go unresolved. Also nearly everything he's written since has been great, whereas Whedon made three movies of varying quality.

[somebellend]

I feel like RTD actually read his criticism, mayhap had a bit of a private fit, and then worked to improve his work.

Meanwhile Whedon reads one thing and goes "The people have deemed me a feminist. A feminist I shall remain." without putting in the work like an absolute fucking wanker.

[sarahvma]

Yeah, probably. I also think RTD's work outside of Who was generally stronger before and after.

Whedon has revealed himself to be a full-on clinical narcissist so he'd never have any hope of improving.