Spike and Lindsey have been spotted on a golf course.

I feel like that's a writing prompt, Chris.

So, Joss Whedon gave an interview to Lila Shapiro for Vulture. I am sure he thinks it is a brilliant PR move. Reader, it is not.

"The Undoing of Joss Whedon": [link] ; Archive link: [link]

The title has Spike saying, "You made a bear! Undo it! Undo it!" in a loop, in my brain. He continues to be gross about the young actresses he just *had* to sleep with.

I don't know if Shapiro knows what this is or not:

Whedon now has a term for the damage his childhood caused. He says he suffers from complex post-traumatic-stress disorder, a condition that can lead to relationship problems, self-destructive behavior, and addictions of various kinds. I asked if he would be willing to share his most traumatic memory with me. “I’m going to run to the loo,” he said. Later, he would let slip that someone had advised him to pretend he needed to pee if he felt uncomfortable with a question.

Returning to the couch, he affected a sort of Vincent Price voice. “And now,” Whedon said, “tales of horror and woe.”

...but I'm pretty sure everyone here knows that "slip" was an intentional attempt to disarm her.

I am also pretty sure if someone had given us the questions in advance, we would have been able to predict his answers for this interview to a stunning degree of accuracy (details aside). BTW (I forgot this, until I saw Tom Scola's post in Press, but) the article mentions Allyson, in discussion of the old PBP (Bronze Posting Board Party) and references her book.

The hubris of his final quote is astonishing. I'm just wondering why he thought this was a good time to do this.

Do you think he thought he could let it out there while the country is distracted by pandemic and the disassembly of democracy, or did he just need some attention again?

That article got more and more depressing the longer it went on. The lack of self awareness or sense of remorse is just sad.

But he's been to therapy, but it's all okay!

I'm told therapy isn't effective for narcissistic personality disorder, which I'm more and more thinking Joss has. Ugh.

Oh well, we'll always have Buffy regardless of how much an ass he shows himself to be. (And it's not as if there weren't hints back when it was airing.)

I can’t help but think that crack he made about “I don’t have anything else to do, might as well work on myself” is extremely accurate

Well, he's got plenty of work to do, but I think that interview shows he's not up for the job. A friend and I were talking, and we kind of think Joss is a narcissist and a sociopath.

The "bad actor" b.s. he spewed about Ray Fisher was downright Trumpian. Then there was the appalling story about sending the 22-year-old freelancer he was bedding off for drinks with a "friend" who ended up being his girlfriend, not to mention breaking up with Arden Leigh, the night before her birthday, even though she'd previously told him a birthday breakup was among her most painful memories.

I mean, did he collect stories in advance, so he wouldn't have to come up with humiliations all on his own?

What I was trying to express but not using enough words to really do so, I think, is that he’s not actually doing the work. If he is an addict he isn’t in recovery.

This was really clear to me last night as I was falling asleep but harder to pin down this morning, but the thing I keep coming back to is how very banal his evil is, how much like every other guy like that he has turned out to be, practically a cliche. Not even an interesting villain.