Anya ,'Showtime'
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls, The Inside and Drive), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath. Oh, and help us get Terriers dvds!
unless the "written by" DeKnight credit means that he was the writer and Joss's name just goes on every episode as "writer," which I don't think is true
Oddly, that is what it means on IMDB. That's how the do TV shows. Joss's name goes on every episode under "writers" as the "creator."
IMDB lists Joss as "creator" -- which I've always read as "of the series", but I'm definitely prone to missing some of these fine points.
eta: x-post with the far more knowledgeable Kristen.
Anyway, I really don't want to get into a discussion of what I think about Joss' feminist credentials, so I think I'd better step away from this thread for a while.
HA! We'll have a massive agreement discussion in LJ someday.
Or maybe you'll agree!
That's what I said!
Joss has oft said in interviews the thing which creeps him out most in TV is the 'reset' factor. You know, at the end of Star Trek you know nobody will remember anything the next episode, likely.
Dollhouse is about the reset factor.
One fear I have - the fact sex is involved in the show. I think the whole point is to show 'This. Is. Wrong.', to some extent, but idea of spending many episodes watching women being treated as holes and men as cocks is personally troublesome.
Also, sometimes icky is what draws people to a show. I mean, why else are shows about serial killers and gruesome surgery so popular.
The concept of Buffy was silly and intriguing.
See, I thought the concept of Buffy sounded wierd and objectifying--I thought it was going to be like those Halloween films "See nubile girl destroy monster, but not until after she screams a lot and looks sexy doing it" but, of course, it wasn't that at ALL. Me not so good at extrapolating from concepts.
See, I thought the concept of Buffy sounded wierd and objectifying--I thought it was going to be like those Halloween films "See nubile girl destroy monster, but not until after she screams a lot and looks sexy doing it" but, of course, it wasn't that at ALL. Me not so good at extrapolating from concepts.
that's my point. I mean, Joss totally turned us on the ass in the first scene with Darla and the boy, we're thinking that she's going to get killed, and then BAM! she vamps out and kills the boy.
The execution will be all (and I include casting as part of the execution), or near to it. I have concerns about they ick-factor, but they come more from Tim's "primoridal misogyny" episode of Angel than anything in Seeing Red.
Then again, I've never had a problem with Joss' sci-fi. I AM curious how sci-fi it will be. It could be a very hi-tech show, or it could be a modern day Prisoner-style show. I suspect it will be closer to that than to Firefly.