Agreed. I'm glad in a way that this series much like the Angel one that will follow it - will have multiple writers. The Faith arc is being done by Brian K Vauhn and I knew Goddard and Espenson are writing a few. I'll miss Fury and Noxon who I think added a certain layer to the characters the others lack - Fury had a comical darkness and Noxon knew how to do raw emotion.
Whedon's not very good at making his characters sound different from each other. They all use the same slang. Watch Firefly after Buffy some time, and you'll catch the same slang words and speech rhythms at the oddest times.
Granted it's impossible not to do that a bit as a writer. But some writers are better at distinguishing their characters voices than others. And I'm admittedly oversensitive to it - since it's something I'm working hard to overcome in my own writing and dialogue.
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Date: 2007-04-07 05:25 am (UTC)Whedon's not very good at making his characters sound different from each other. They all use the same slang. Watch Firefly after Buffy some time, and you'll catch the same slang words and speech rhythms at the oddest times.
Granted it's impossible not to do that a bit as a writer. But some writers are better at distinguishing their characters voices than others. And I'm admittedly oversensitive to it - since it's something I'm working hard to overcome in my own writing and dialogue.