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: 2012-04-06 09:51 pm (UTC)Dollhouse... I didn't hate it, it has a few good episodes and some good acting performances, but mostly it's just messy. Confused message, confused purpose... I would like to re-watch it some time (I've seen the series twice, first watch and then when watching it with someone else soon after) I've got the DVDs but never quite got around to re-watching again. It doesn't have the usual Whedon humour, which wouldn't be a problem given the subject matter if they played the subject matter more seriously, instead it just feels like a Whedon show too afraid to make jokes. There are some interesting thoughts in there but it never really decides what it wants to be. You could definitely tell that Joss was confused himself about the concept and wasn't into it like he was Buffy and Firefly (he wasn't really into Angel either but Greenwalt/Minear managed to make that work). And I think the fact that Whedon involved his brother and sis-in-law in making the show rubs me the wrong way, especially considering they wrote some of the show's worst episodes.
Yes. This. Exactly. Thank you. Of all the comments regarding Dollhouse this comes closest to how I viewed it and felt about the series. Although I don't own the DVDs. And am uncertain if I want to re-watch. Part of me does...because there are some good things buried in there. It felt largely uneven. And I was admittedly influenced by the online reaction to it - which was admittedly negative - that series pushed a lot of fans buttons.
I think Dr. Horrible works better if you are familiar with the super-hero genre/trope that Whedon is critiquing.