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Worst Plot Lines in Whedonverse

Jan 20, 2012 16:59

We're going to be having a discussion on our podcast, Lets Talk Joss, about the worst plotlines in the Whedonverse. What plots made your go uhhhhhh in Buffy, Angel, Firefly, and Dollhouse?

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carlyinrome January 21 2012, 01:02:23 UTC

That whole Evil Cordy mess. WHY.

sl_podcast January 21 2012, 01:07:20 UTC

Agreed.

slaymesoftly January 21 2012, 01:32:47 UTC

Ditto

steles January 21 2012, 01:12:41 UTC

IAWTC
I hated the whole cordy/connor/grown brainwashing baby.

tangwstyl January 21 2012, 01:08:31 UTC

The nerds.

The First Evil.

The idea that demons can't love without souls. (Is that considered a plot line?)

sl_podcast January 21 2012, 20:40:28 UTC

I don't know, the demons can't love without their souls really opened up a great discussion with Spike.

steles January 21 2012, 01:17:21 UTC

Dawn. And that's all I have to say about that.
Willow/Kennedy, Nina the werewolf...hmmm typical my mind's gone blank.

iamfitz January 21 2012, 02:04:10 UTC

The Initiative.

C'mon, a massive facility is built and operating under a university and no one knows about it? That's goofy even for a bad comic book.

And I agree that what they did to Cordelia on "Angel" is just unforgivable.

sl_podcast January 21 2012, 20:53:03 UTC

Even Joss would agree with you on the initative front I believe.. it was a great idea that was so horribly written.

spiletta42 January 21 2012, 04:07:36 UTC

I didn't like the Evil Cordy thing either, it felt convoluted and her death sucked. (I didn't like any of the main character deaths on any of Joss's shows, really, but I never like character death in anything, so I'm not going to go so far as to call any of those bad plots.)

I loved Willow/Kennedy. I loved the Trio, especially Andrew. Dawn is one of my favorite characters. I was fine with the Initiative.

I thought the attempted rape scene in Seeing Red was unnecessary and problematic. Someone should have come up with a better catalyst for Spike's soul-seeking. They couldn't give him a moral dilemma with some actual meat on it, really? Of course, that issue has been beaten to death for years, so it might not make a very good podcast topic ( ... )

sl_podcast January 21 2012, 20:51:50 UTC

My comfort canon is they've been so wrong about souls before that they're wrong about it this time.

spiletta42 January 21 2012, 21:09:18 UTC

Oh, without a doubt they're wrong. A soul should be the most indestructible thing in the universe. *sigh* I should write fix-it fic, but I seem to not write any more, sadly.