I just don't understand how someone could go from writing something as crappy as Buffy to something as wonderful as Firefly.
Hmm. I have a special history with Buffy. At first, as every serious darkness-lover I thought "what the hell? Vampire clowns vs. Cheerleaders?".
But the strength is not only (I think!) strong wit, but great storyflow. I mean, season 3, 4 and 5 of Buffy are with few exceptions one long epic storyflow with a lot of good ideas.
I understand the criticism, but it doesn't bother me if I hear the same humour in all lines, that's concept. It's the same with all comedy series I like. But I think he has really heavy characters with a lot of depth (always compared to other TV series, we are not talking literature here). Development of Spike or Willow comes to mind, if you have followed the Buffy series.
If you want to judge his impact as a writer on his own serieses, look at what happens when J.W. is NOT working on them, look at the seasons where he was "away". When he distanced himself from Buffy to do Firefly, the series got really bad, and as soon as he joined Angel, Angel suddenly became good. That's something.
OK I feared as much, not many pro Josses here, well at least I started a thread that actually is about something
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The questions I have:
1. Is he so popular? Look at the AustralianGamers forum commenting on the Podcast, Joss gets a lot of hate. OK, he doctored a few Hollywood scripts without much credits. He had Buffy and a little Angel. And Firefly which crashed.
2. And there are so many bad writers out there, many of them much more popular, why can't we attack those?
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No really, I think his good episodes are among the 10% goodness on TV.
Well not important. Just wanted to talk a little with you guys.