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Oasx posted:Ahh yes, if you like Zack Snyder it's because he's a minor god, if you like Marvel it's bootlicking. I care as much about Disney as you do WB, but I do care for the Marvel universe. Whether it's Disney that holds the money I don't really care about. For the record, I don't think you're being called a bootlicker for liking Marvel, but because regarding the New Gods press release and the Whedon accusations, you seem to have a pattern of parroting corporate press releases/talking points excusing their behavior. Like surprise surprise, WB is trying to sell the idea that their hands are tied after firing two POC directors, in the wake of a scandal where they removed and abused a bunch of other POC actors from their latest superhero movie.
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Oasx posted:Ahh yes, if you like Zack Snyder it's because he's a minor god, if you like Marvel it's bootlicking. I care as much about Disney as you do WB, but I do care for the Marvel universe. Whether it's Disney that holds the money I don't really care about. This is such a boring take. No one cares if you like Marvel movies, so please, don't try to spin this as some petty Marvel vs Snyder/DC thing. And come on, you basically sided with WB over the New Gods thing and dumped blame on Snyder, which is 100% the corporate talking point that was making rounds on social media yesterday lol. That's clearly not any sort of criticism, but instead it comes across as you propping up corpo executive bullshit. [edit] Guy A. Person posted:But still, I understand that this narrative is seductive, it's easier to assume someone you like just had some bad press but there's no smoking gun, you know? Yeah, that's fair. teagone fucked around with this message at 18:28 on Apr 2, 2021 |
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Oasx posted:They are pretty dark and gritty compared to most comicbook stories. Buffy features attempted rape as a plot point and the Reavers in Serenity have been described as literally raping people to death. Just to put your dumbass comments about dark and gritty content into perspective.
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Grendels Dad posted:Buffy features attempted rape as a plot point and the Reavers in Serenity have been described as literally raping people to death. Just to put your dumbass comments about dark and gritty content into perspective. Is it time for that quote again? https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-firefly-episode-were-really-glad-joss-whedon-didnt-5959794 You bet! quote:"She had this magic syringe. She would take this drug. And if she were, for instance, raped, the rapist would die a horrible death. The story was that she gets kidnapped by Reavers and when Mal finally got to the ship to save her from the Reavers, he gets on the Reaver ship and all the Reavers are dead. Which would suggest a kind of really bad assault. At the end of the episode, he comes in after she's been horribly brutalized, and he comes in and he gets down on his knee, and he takes her hand. And he treats her like a lady. And that's the kind of stuff that we wanted to do. It was very dark. And this was actually the first story that Joss pitched to me when he asked me to come work on the show. He said, 'These are the kind of stories we're going to do."
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McCloud posted:Is it time for that quote again? My Macbook Pro already has a "Down Arrow" key that no longer works. Please don't damage it further by posting stuff likely to make me puke on it. Figure at this point any Joss Whedon "really cool ideas" are pretty much nausea fuel.
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Didn't Mal treat Inara really bad at times during the show, I guess you would call it "negging" now a days? I honestly don't remember Firefly that much even though i bought the dumb Blu-ray years ago, all I ever remember clearly is the "lost episode" plot and they spoke Chinese for some reason at weird times.
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Miching Mallecho posted:Didn't Mal treat Inara really bad at times during the show, I guess you would call it "negging" now a days? Mal was constantly a piece of poo poo to Inara and had a whole bit about how he's the only one who gets to call her a whore Also IIRC there's literally one asian actor with literally any lines at all in the entire series (a minor character in one episode), in a setting where everything started as a joint US/Chinese settlement and everyone throws in random bad Chinese lines all the time Piell fucked around with this message at 15:05 on Apr 3, 2021 |
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McCloud posted:Is it time for that quote again? What the gently caress.
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Piell posted:Also IIRC there's literally one asian actor with literally any lines at all in the entire series (a minor character in one episode), in a setting where everything started as a joint US/Chinese settlement and everyone throws in random bad Chinese lines all the time
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Yeah they throw in bits of Chinese in a way that a Mexican-American might speak Spanglish, except that it's incredibly forced.
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Huh, this whole time I thought Summer Glau was at least part Asian.
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I wish it got made because it would have saved us a ton of pain later down the line.
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Genuinely from what has been said by people involved in the show since it finished, Buffy is good in spite of Whedon, not because of him.
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Lord_Magmar posted:Genuinely from what has been said by people involved in the show since it finished, Buffy is good in spite of Whedon, not because of him. It had a strong writers' room for sure, with it being the first show for a lot of writers who went on to do bigger things (Jane Espenson, Drew Goddard, Steven DeKnight).
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McCloud posted:Is it time for that quote again? Joss Whedon posted:CLOSE ON: THE GIRL Steve Trevor posted:"I think you're dangerous. I think you mean well but you're looking for trouble and you're wildly adept at finding it. I think you've got delusions of grandeur and some actual grandeur, which is confusing. I don't like confusing. I hate the fact that I'm so attracted to you, just touching you is overwhelming and I keep hoping you'll turn around so I can see more of you naked." Things I love seeing in my female empowerment movies posted:DIANA What a pity it'll never get made now, but hey, at least that 'sitting on a lasso' gag came to good use! Piell posted:Mal was constantly a piece of poo poo to Inara and had a whole bit about how he's the only one who gets to call her a whore Whedon's self-insert character in Buffy was a quintessential nice guy 'best friend' who kept slut-shaming her for sleeping with people that were not him and attempted to rape* her the minute he got the excuse of being possessed by hyenas. *Not to be confused with the controversial attempted rape on Buffy at a later season - that one was written in for the sole purpose of reminding the audience that bad guy still bad. Feminism.
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Perhaps a hamster posted:What a pity it'll never get made now, but hey, at least that 'sitting on a lasso' gag came to good use! Lmfao Christ what a hack
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Chairman Capone posted:It had a strong writers' room for sure, with it being the first show for a lot of writers who went on to do bigger things (Jane Espenson, Drew Goddard, Steven DeKnight). Yeah, like on Angel, Tim Minear and co (Ben Edlund of Tick fame) outshone Buffy. That whole group was stronger than Whedon.
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I remember the one where Xander got possessed by a hyena demon and turned into a rape monster. I liked the ending where he pretends to have amnesia, it was very much one of those "I'd probably pretend that also" things
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hiddenriverninja posted:Huh, this whole time I thought Summer Glau was at least part Asian. I just assumed that Summer Glau was part of that "alien-hybrid genetic group" that produced Zooey Deschanel, Tilda Swinton and other people that are really really good at playing people who aren't actually regular human beings. Lord_Magmar posted:Genuinely from what has been said by people involved in the show since it finished, Buffy is good in spite of Whedon, not because of him. I don't think that's completely fair, but it's not completely unfair, either. The first five seasons of BtVS are decent to really good TV, with a couple of bits of greatness here and there (along with the occasional clunkers). The show kind of went off the rails in Seasons Six and Seven - especially Six. So if Whedon exerted more control during those seasons, I wouldn't be shocked.
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Perhaps a hamster posted:Obligatory "Joss Whedon wrote a Wonder Woman script and made Steve Trevor the protagonist" post: MiddleOne posted:What the gently caress.
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quote:What the gently caress Joss Whedon in 2018 posted:“I don’t know which parts people didn’t like, but I went and reread the script after I heard there was a backlash,” Whedon told Variety. “I think it’s great."
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Lord_Magmar posted:Genuinely from what has been said by people involved in the show since it finished, Buffy is good in spite of Whedon, not because of him. Firefly is the start of him not being able to keep his obvious kinks and hangups out of his work. He has so much sexual violence towards women seeping into it as well as his thing for infantilized women. But then Dollhouse is just straight up a lot about mind controlled women sex slaves who are essentially children in their default state. poo poo's weird.
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I disliked a lot of Whedon's writing because all of the characters seem to have the same voice. Age of Ultron was the worst for that; I mean, I don't mind one or two characters filling the role of 'the quipy guy,' but when Thor, Captain America, Black Widow, *and* the evil robot are all talking like that too...ugh. Of course now that we know that he was a sadistic boss and a casting-couch sex-creep it's pretty easy to dismiss him out of hand.
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They all have the same voice because he didn't give a poo poo about the actual characters. It was recently revealed that on the set of Josstice League he kept calling Wonder Woman "Natasha." These characters are interchanging to him.
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The MSJ posted:The second part of the animated adaptation of The Long Halloween is getting an R rating. To spice things up they put in a sex scene with Batman and the Calendar Man.
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Miching Mallecho posted:Didn't Mal treat Inara really bad at times during the show, I guess you would call it "negging" now a days? Joss Whedon's idea of making almost every character in cast a Han Solo is very narrow and amounts to "a massive dickhead"
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fatherboxx posted:Joss Whedon's idea of making almost every character in cast a Han Solo is very narrow and amounts to "a massive dickhead" To be fair, Mal's shittiness is adressed in the show. Him and Jayne are often depicted as good guys merely through circumstance. What I find problematic is the public perception of Mal as a rogue with a heart of gold, when the whole point seems to be that you would have to dig really loving deep to find the gold. And then of course the rest of the show and the movie ran with that Knight in a Brown Coat bullshit.
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Grain of salt here but I don't get how Johns is still in charge of anything when stories like these seem to drop every other week. https://twitter.com/PopCrave/status/1379443867972427776?s=19
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The excuses their spokesperson gave in that Hollywood Report piece were the most "white person defense" poo poo I've ever seen. "He loves the LGBTQ community. He did [x thing] one time!" "He identifies as Lebanese American!" "He loves the black and asian ladies so much he married them, how can he be racist!" He would have looked better if he didn't have anyone say anything in response.
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"continuity notes" Continuity to Joss Whedon's unused Wonder Woman spec script?
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Mat Cauthon posted:Grain of salt here but I don't get how Johns is still in charge of anything when stories like these seem to drop every other week. Maybe he should've dated a gay black dude.
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It's sad how many adults seem to think bigotry is some kind of 'bad guy hat' that you wear, and if you're not wearing the hat then nothing you say or do can possibly be problematic
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Immensely lovely that Ray Fisher's career is going to be the only one to really take a hit here. Also pretty interesting that Affleck of all people tried to get the rest of the main cast to walk out in protest of Whedon's bullshit. Wouldn't have expected that.
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Mat Cauthon posted:Immensely lovely that Ray Fisher's career is going to be the only one to really take a hit here. It is absurdly lovely that Geoff Johns and Whedon both get to just hole up and wait for it to 'blow over'
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