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I 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.]

Date: 2012-04-06 03:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shadowkat67.livejournal.com
Exactly. You don't really have to go much further than Star Wars to see what Whedon did wrong. Lucas does meld the two genres - Science Fiction and Westerns and seamlessly. As did Battle Star Galatica - the first version to a certain extent (the first series was basically Wagon Train or Bonanza complete with Lorne Greene in Space - granted it wasn't great, but it is better than Firefly in execution). What both did was develop every aspect of that world and were consistent. There was no inconsistencies. Customs, setting, everything. It wasn't Gunsmoke in Space, which was what Firefly often felt like. Also Lucas unlike Whedon is a big picture guy - he really does get obsessed with mythology, theme, and tiny details. Lucas' problem was characters...he'd lose track of them for all the other stuff.

You can get away with not being too consistent with fantasy or magic, well within reason, depends on the fantasy. If it's Tolkien, not so much. George RR Martin can get away with things that a lot of sci-fi writers really can't.
Part of the problem is you are selling the reader on your world. It's like entering a house, I think. You expect the door to lead somewhere...unlike my uncle's house where he has a door on the second floor that leads (I kid you not) to nowhere...or empty space. My Uncle is literally a gardener who thinks he's an architect. You can have a door lead to nowhere in fantasy...sci-fi, people start asking questions about physics.

Date: 2012-04-06 06:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shipperx.livejournal.com
Hey, maybe many of my problems with Joss stem from my literally being an architect!

Date: 2012-04-06 07:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shadowkat67.livejournal.com
LOL! I totally get that. I have similar issues...I was trained to see the narrative structure of a piece of work, it's architecture. And that plot was important.

It's one of my problems with George RR Martin. I keep wanting to edit him.
Drives me crazy.

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