You're probably right about the divide. For myself, meta is what I enjoy the most.
About the comics not working on an emotional level at least for a great number of people, I agree and wonder if it would have worked better with real actors to give life to the characters. Whedon was probably very conscious of the necessity to translate the emotions of his characters and it's why he choose Jeanty to do the drawings. But Jeanty is confronted to an impossible task. All in all, Whedon's writing works possibly more completely when executed in a media like TV, where the actors can retranslate all the necessary nuances. There's also the fact that Whedon's writing seems to have evolved towards a more dry intellectual work if Dollhouse is any indication. And then there's also the fact that the situations where he has put his characters are really outrageous. Not everybody tastes that sort of humour or satire. His work would certainly have benefited from someone keeping it more grounded, which S Allie wasn't able to do.
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Date: 2010-09-03 05:06 pm (UTC)About the comics not working on an emotional level at least for a great number of people, I agree and wonder if it would have worked better with real actors to give life to the characters. Whedon was probably very conscious of the necessity to translate the emotions of his characters and it's why he choose Jeanty to do the drawings. But Jeanty is confronted to an impossible task. All in all, Whedon's writing works possibly more completely when executed in a media like TV, where the actors can retranslate all the necessary nuances. There's also the fact that Whedon's writing seems to have evolved towards a more dry intellectual work if Dollhouse is any indication. And then there's also the fact that the situations where he has put his characters are really outrageous. Not everybody tastes that sort of humour or satire. His work would certainly have benefited from someone keeping it more grounded, which S Allie wasn't able to do.