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[shadowkat]

Resisting the urge to snark at the Buffy comics, whose summaries and reviews, I'm finding rather amusing. Okay, so, out of all the comic book plots out there to steal from, Whedon and Meltzer chose the Teen Titans/X-men crossover with Darkseid? They know comic book fans blasted that one out of the stratesophere when it hit the shelves as being beyond lame, right?

For an excellent review of Dollhouse, which clarified what I liked and disliked about the series - go here :http://aycheb.livejournal.com/105845.html?view=661621&style=mine#t661621

Aycheb does a great job of pointing out what bugged me about Dollhouse and to a degree what has been bugging me about Whedon's stories since Buffy. He's trying to be a political sci-fi writer and it's not his genre. He's better at psychological and gothic horror. Political world-building requires an attention to detail and thoroughness that I think Whedon lacks as evidenced by the Buffy comics actually. He's very good at psychological metaphors, but political ones...he gets a tad to preachy and loses his subtle touch. It's just not what he does well. It's not that he can't do political tales -he can but not ones with a broad scope. He's better at intimate stories...one's that focus on fewer characters, epics or stories that are broader in scope seem to get confused. I'm not stating it very well, I'm afraid.

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[dlgood.livejournal.com]

He's trying to be a political sci-fi writer and it's not his genre.

I don't think the problem is that it's not "his genre". It's his lack of attention-to-detail and care. Over time, his world-building became unraveled and very flawed, because he's always willing to junk the foundation for the expediencies of drama and storyline - instead of finding ways to integrate them or shift more naturally. A problem which plagues him whether he writes psycholgical, gothic horror, or political genre works.

[flake-sake.livejournal.com]

Hm, I think I see where you're comming from and I tend to agree. Joss is better with small scale stories, personal stories. The epic part is usually not what's interesting about his stories and the focus on it in S8 might be one of the factors that drag it down.

What happened in the teen titans/ x-men crossover?