because he rewrote so many of the scripts, as every writer who worked on the show tells you?
Same writers who claim he was an absentee showrunner more often than not? Espenson said in a Fireflyfans interview he was around less and less.
But that's beside the point. Story arcs are influenced by the PTB for content and approval (for instance, they had to run the AtS5 bible past the execs before they even picked it up for another year). Showrunners are very, very rarely left to their own devices, especially greenhorns.
Whedon now says he understands that Buffy is his avatar ("Buffy was me")
You mean when it wasn't Xander? How about when he said no one understood Buffy the way Gellar did? Did SMG know himself better than he knew...himself? All of a sudden Comic!Buffy is his avatar. The level of privilege from that statement is terribly funny given the world and business he lives and works in.
It looks a lot like Season 6 fandom 2.0 but now with Whedon as the reviled figure instead of Noxon.
As someone who has defended Marti for almost 10 years, it's not even remotely close. The level of hate directed at that woman was insane. I've seen some true Joss haters and even their bile didn't come close to what she was shown.
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because he rewrote so many of the scripts, as every writer who worked on the show tells you?
Same writers who claim he was an absentee showrunner more often than not? Espenson said in a Fireflyfans interview he was around less and less.
But that's beside the point. Story arcs are influenced by the PTB for content and approval (for instance, they had to run the AtS5 bible past the execs before they even picked it up for another year). Showrunners are very, very rarely left to their own devices, especially greenhorns.
Whedon now says he understands that Buffy is his avatar ("Buffy was me")
You mean when it wasn't Xander? How about when he said no one understood Buffy the way Gellar did? Did SMG know himself better than he knew...himself? All of a sudden Comic!Buffy is his avatar. The level of privilege from that statement is terribly funny given the world and business he lives and works in.
It looks a lot like Season 6 fandom 2.0 but now with Whedon as the reviled figure instead of Noxon.
As someone who has defended Marti for almost 10 years, it's not even remotely close. The level of hate directed at that woman was insane. I've seen some true Joss haters and even their bile didn't come close to what she was shown.