Feel free to shit on the quips comrades but I can’t deny the man produced some of the more formative works in my life…and I am sad to see what a POS he turned out to be.
Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown, and The Ninth Gate were excellent movies. Roman Polanski still sucks.
It really had its finger on the pulse in a way that most of us were genuinely not quite ready for.
Whedon was a manchild and you can't help but pick up those themes in his work in retrospect. I think the whole Resurrecting Buffy plotline hampered the show upfront, but turned the season into a very about-the-characters arc in the end. And Buffy is a good show, more than anything, because of the character-studies and the relationship drama.
With Whedon gone, you got a lot more meta-commentary and self-critique. Once the show had time to age a little, I think it gave the season more of a kick. You can watch it without feeling jerked around by the ending of season 5 deviating so heavily from the ending to season 6.
Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown, and The Ninth Gate were excellent movies. Roman Polanski still sucks.
Whedon was a manchild and you can't help but pick up those themes in his work in retrospect. I think the whole Resurrecting Buffy plotline hampered the show upfront, but turned the season into a very about-the-characters arc in the end. And Buffy is a good show, more than anything, because of the character-studies and the relationship drama.
With Whedon gone, you got a lot more meta-commentary and self-critique. Once the show had time to age a little, I think it gave the season more of a kick. You can watch it without feeling jerked around by the ending of season 5 deviating so heavily from the ending to season 6.