So, apparently, in things we should fear the most in 2012, besides, you know, THE END OF THE WORLD, is a Joss-less Buffy movie. There's a petition to boycott! With strong quotes like, "Find me one person who liked Buffy the Vampire Slayer but not Joss, and I'll show you a liar." *dies* Apparently, my friendslist is mostly made up of liars ( Read more... )

So, link on friendslist about Joss' thoughts on who the most developed character on Buffy was, and let's play a game. I'm trusting you to take the poll before reading the answer, so don't fail me, friendslist. Then I'll reveal my thoughts on his thoughts.

Poll The Joss Whedon Wisdom Poll

( Joss's answer and my thoughts under the cut. )

"This one time I hit a girl with my car. It was the most traumatic experience of my life and she kept trying to make it about her leg. As if my pain meant nothing."So, I've been thinking about Man Pain, what exactly IS it, its awesome power to make me hate a character like I never thought possible, how narratives view women's pain vs. men's pain, ( Read more... )

Have I mentioned lately how much I love Buffy (seasons 1 through 5)? I don't talk about it enough these days but to confirm, it is, in fact, STILL MY LIFE. So, I've been rewatching season one with people in my life who haven't ever watched it(!), and appreciating early bits despite its flaws because it all leads to the awesome series finale of ( Read more... )

Every time there's a good discussion of the treatment of female characters in fiction or a mention of female deaths/refrigerations, there's always the inevitable derailment of the discussion with the very brilliant question of, "But what about the men? Do they don't die/get mistreated/etc, too?" So, I've been thinking: Indeed, what about the men? ( Read more... )

In case you haven't heard, there's been talk of a Buffy reboot in the form of a movie franchise that's going to keep the core idea of the 1992 movie, and go with that premise but reimagine it. As suspected, fandom is not happy ( Read more... )

I've been thinking about women's fiction, and women's genres lately, specifically in the context of horror and romance. I was initially surprised to find out that horror was considered to be a women's genre, but then it clicked that of course it was. It has two features that seem to be common to women's fiction: 1). It actually has women as ( Read more... )

So the latest episode of "Dollhouse" is what has been referred to as a fairly inoffensive episode of the series, even by people on my side of this debate. And to be honest, it did not induce any sort of rage or push any of my buttons while watching (except for the Topher bits, but at this point, I'm sure that if Topher were out saving ancient ruins ( Read more... )

So, um, this post started out as being a "Dollhouse" review, but it's now actually about the last two seasons of Buffy, gender issues in them, and what went wrong. For me, anyway.

I watched Dollhouse once this week with my sisters, and then again with meganbmoore. During the second viewing, for the most part, I had the window minimized while listening to the ( Read more... )

Surprisingly, my reaction is not as completely hate-filled as I was expecting it to be now that I've read it all together. There's still an insane amount of crap here, and it suffers from all the issues Joss' works usually suffer from. But, there are bits that I don't hate, and even parts that I actually like. And then there are the parts that fill ( Read more... )