I love how Tim is painted as just a wee babe, suckling at the teat of the Mighty Whedon, a complete blank slate until he learned to imitate the master.

I was reading posts about the last episode of the inside, and someone was appalled that Web suffered no consequences from hanging the hooker out on a limb and being responsible for her attack. The poster said that obviously Tim had learned nothing from Joss.

I said, "why do you think anything like that would be wrapped in a neat bow at the end of an episode. On Buffy and Angel, consequences would sometimes come seasons later. obviously, you learned nothing by watching joss."

Shit. The episode's plot was about consequences Web was dealing with for something that happened years prior.

Jackass.

I'm pretty sure Joss thinks Tim taught him a lot. I mean, you could speculate Angel would have gone off the rails without Tim. Oh, no, wait.

I'm pretty sure Joss thinks Tim taught him a lot...

Was that flamebait? 'Cus I gots some flame for that, if it was.

I don't think it's flamebait, Gus. I think it's reasonable that two people who worked closely on two shows likely learned a lot from each other.

Ok, Allyson, I'll flame off. It probably has to do with my not knowing Kevin all that much.

I think I am protective of Joss. I do not know why. He is filthy rich.

Tim, also, is not encumbered for funds.

Fuck 'em both. They can protect themselves.

They'll always have Buffy.

The first episode shows every sign of continuing in Whedon's tradition of producing TV fiction that is not just liberal, but radical in its political sensibilities, though with a minimum of overt politics.

I forced myself the to skim the entire article. (Could not bring myself to read it carefully.) The examples it gives of radical leftism seem to be:

A) noting that women are people,
B) noting that good and evil can exist side by side while remaining distinct.

Uh yeah. Those are radical leftist positions all right. Cause no one not a radical leftist has ever noticed either one of these things. It is not possible, for example, that a libertarian Heinlein's admirerer who has written a mini-series based upon "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" would be aware of such things without having become a radical leftist.

The politics of The Inside do not interest me so much. If you have the FBI, you are starting out on the Right.

Gus - I agree. The chance to snark at someone trying to read politics into it that were not there interested me, at least for one post.

On edit. On second thought I'm not sure locating it in the FBI automatically locates the politics on the right. But I agree that an extended discussion of the politics of The Inside would not be interesting.

Personally ... the politics of The Inside don't interest me because they don't interest me. Any extrapolation I might do is me projecting, not me knowing.