Favorite Whedon TV Show Meme
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shadowkatI can't remember what Whedon tv shows my readership favors. So perhaps you can help? My current guess is that you rank them as follows:
1. Buffy
2. Angel (with about 25-45% preferring Angel to Buffy for various reasons)
3. Firefly
4. Dollhouse (with 65% squicked by the series and finding it unwatchable)
Only 5% read the comics and liked them. Everyone liked Dr. Horrible. Few read the X-men comics by Whedon or stuck with them. So comics Whedon - not a fav. Also few appear interested in the current films, Much Ado, Cabin in the Woods, or Avengers. Am I right?
Here's a poll to find out, assuming people participate. As all mathematicians and staticians know...polls are repsentative of the sampling. If only 20 people take the poll?
You guess based on those 20. So...I have approximately 150 who have friended me, of the 150, about 50 probably read on a daily basis, of the 50, 30% are into polls. So..I have no way of knowing, do I? The only way I can know is if everyone who reads my journal and likes or ever liked Whedon shows takes the poll. And that's well impossible. So this is ...far from an exact exercise. (A lesson to the people out there who do a lot of surveys for sociology, psychology and marketing classes - people? They aren't that reliable. You know that right? IF not, just read the internet - it will prove it to you. There's a reason that sociology, psychology and marketing are considering inexact sciences or soft. They rely on inexact data that can't be proven beyond a reasonable doubt. Lawyers love to poke holes in statistical data.)
That said, for a bit of fun, take the poll and see if you can prove me wrong? Feel free to link, since a lot of readers seem to be through links at times.
[Poll #1831422]
[Note: Won't be able to respond until late on Thursday or Friday, since I can no longer access personal blogs via my workplace. So can only access at home. PS: I reposted this poll fifteen minutes after first posting, because I screwed up on the last question and had to fix it. Now it should be fine. If you responded to the deleted post, please respond again. Thanks.]
[ETA: Read the comments. Fascinating.]
1. Buffy
2. Angel (with about 25-45% preferring Angel to Buffy for various reasons)
3. Firefly
4. Dollhouse (with 65% squicked by the series and finding it unwatchable)
Only 5% read the comics and liked them. Everyone liked Dr. Horrible. Few read the X-men comics by Whedon or stuck with them. So comics Whedon - not a fav. Also few appear interested in the current films, Much Ado, Cabin in the Woods, or Avengers. Am I right?
Here's a poll to find out, assuming people participate. As all mathematicians and staticians know...polls are repsentative of the sampling. If only 20 people take the poll?
You guess based on those 20. So...I have approximately 150 who have friended me, of the 150, about 50 probably read on a daily basis, of the 50, 30% are into polls. So..I have no way of knowing, do I? The only way I can know is if everyone who reads my journal and likes or ever liked Whedon shows takes the poll. And that's well impossible. So this is ...far from an exact exercise. (A lesson to the people out there who do a lot of surveys for sociology, psychology and marketing classes - people? They aren't that reliable. You know that right? IF not, just read the internet - it will prove it to you. There's a reason that sociology, psychology and marketing are considering inexact sciences or soft. They rely on inexact data that can't be proven beyond a reasonable doubt. Lawyers love to poke holes in statistical data.)
That said, for a bit of fun, take the poll and see if you can prove me wrong? Feel free to link, since a lot of readers seem to be through links at times.
[Poll #1831422]
[Note: Won't be able to respond until late on Thursday or Friday, since I can no longer access personal blogs via my workplace. So can only access at home. PS: I reposted this poll fifteen minutes after first posting, because I screwed up on the last question and had to fix it. Now it should be fine. If you responded to the deleted post, please respond again. Thanks.]
[ETA: Read the comments. Fascinating.]
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Date: 2012-04-05 03:34 am (UTC)Buffy is a VERY close second because it really had time to develop into something brilliant.
I rate Dollhouse third because I was fascinated by the flawed idea that never really worked (it might have worked better w/out Fox's interference).
And Angel is always last with me because I didn't like most of the cast and stories... And I hated everything about season 4 (I should recheck that, but I'm pretty sure I never liked anything from Season 4), however season 5 was somewhat a redemption....
None of the comics mean much to me, but I do adore 'Dr. Horrible', particularly the musical commentary!
And I will watch in the theaters and buy all three of the upcoming movies! I have high hopes for all three being big fun.
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Date: 2012-04-06 03:31 am (UTC)Interesting. Everyone else in the comments thread has the exact opposite response. LOL!
I almost want to see you guys discuss this at length. But I get enough of that sort of thing at work. ;-)
We're about the opposite on a few things here. I loved S4 Angel (the whole Lilah/Wes arc, the Angel/Angelus, the Faith/Wes story and Connor), and I won't tell you my feelings about Firefly which are admittedly convoluted and highly influenced by the various posts and negative essays I've read over the years. If you read the comments in this thread...that pretty much gives you a good idea.
Suffice it to say, to this day, I can't quite decide if Firefly is an insane sci-fi Western homage to Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged or just a fun homage to George Lucas' Han Solo - the Smuggler years - sort of a blend of WWII movies and Westerns. It probably would have helped if an actor other than Alan Tudyk resonated for me in any way, none did. Nathan Fillion, sorry to say, didn't work for me. ;-)
beer_goodfoamy convinced me recently of the brilliance of Doctor Horrible - stating it was a great critique of the super-hero genre, tricking the audience into rooting for the villain.