Comments | emeraldsedai: It really knows no bounds, my Joss love

emeraldsedai

It really knows no bounds, my Joss love

Mar 11, 2009 17:45

Transcription of this interview snippet on youtube, in which Joss gives what is some of the best writing advice I've ever heard ( Read more... )

joss whedon, writing

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vampirefan March 12 2009, 05:01:44 UTC

thank you! that is awesome that you transcribed it. i'm gonna put this in my memories.

emeraldsedai March 12 2009, 05:07:58 UTC

I love that picture of Joss in your icon. Yeah, he pretty much rules. And in this particular case, not just because he says "porn is fine," though, yay, but because, oh, damn, just because he's so freakin' brilliant and out there with his darkness and his politics.

<3 Joss.

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emeraldsedai March 13 2009, 00:15:50 UTC

Do you suppose that's what was missing from DHSAB for you? Because the dual life that Billy/DH (hm...DH Doctor Horrible and DH Dollhouse, hm...) lives resonates for me personally, as does his terrible reticence to speak to the girl he likes, and as do all the stories he tells himself about how one single attainment will make him into a the "real person" he was meant to be.

I have yet to find that element in Dollhouse, but the notion of it being there makes me a little more interested in watching it.

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emeraldsedai March 13 2009, 19:19:39 UTC

The absent center--that's the one. Classic example: "The Big Chill." Dollhouse is an interesting take on that idea. Caroline is missing, or, put another way, in Echo, there's no there there.

I think seeing Sierra being dolled for the first time was what made us sympathetic toward her. "She hurts," Echo informs us. The transformation to nothingness is painful.

Why am I thinking about Jubal Early now?