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Before Joss Whedon was the undisputed king of geekdom, responsible for making an Avengers film not just possible but awesome to the nth degree and finally proving that the Incredible Hulk could actually work on the silver screen, he worked on a couple of TV shows that you might have heard of.
Well, “worked on” is a bit of an understatement, much like “TV shows”. What he actually did was create a number of groundbreaking cultural phenomena that still have a huge impact on the pop cultural landscape even though they’ve been off the air for a decade or more. And, er, Dollhouse.
These series – Buffy the Vampire Slayer, spin-off Angel, the cancelled-too-soon Firefly and to a lesser extent the aforementioned Dollhouse – were full of Whedon’s trademark humour, snappy dialogue, pathos and explorations of topics including but not nearly limited to existentialism, gender, isolation, makeshift families, misogyny and,...
Before Joss Whedon was the undisputed king of geekdom, responsible for making an Avengers film not just possible but awesome to the nth degree and finally proving that the Incredible Hulk could actually work on the silver screen, he worked on a couple of TV shows that you might have heard of.
Well, “worked on” is a bit of an understatement, much like “TV shows”. What he actually did was create a number of groundbreaking cultural phenomena that still have a huge impact on the pop cultural landscape even though they’ve been off the air for a decade or more. And, er, Dollhouse.
These series – Buffy the Vampire Slayer, spin-off Angel, the cancelled-too-soon Firefly and to a lesser extent the aforementioned Dollhouse – were full of Whedon’s trademark humour, snappy dialogue, pathos and explorations of topics including but not nearly limited to existentialism, gender, isolation, makeshift families, misogyny and,...
- 8/31/2014
- by Mark Allen
- Obsessed with Film
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