Joss Whedon's AMA on Reddit
- Redditor: WHY DO YOU KILL EVERYONE THAT I LOVE?!
- Joss: You love stupid people.
Joss Whedon's AMA on Reddit
- Redditor: I'm sure that killing off a character you've invested a lot of time in can be tough. Have you ever found that doing this to a particular character has had a profound emotional affect on you? Who was the toughest kill?
- Joss: I actually find it refreshing... delightful.... vaguely arousing.... Actually, I'm, no offense, very tired of being labelled as "the guy who kills people". Shakespeare (he's this hot new writer) does it way more than me, and everyone's all excited about how he, as it were, holds a mirror up to nature, while I'm like the Jason Voorhees of the writing community. Unfair.
- Joss: Also, probably Buffy's Mom.
- Everyone ever: awwwwwwwwwwwwww :(
"I wanted to drag Shakespeare from obscurity. I’ve been a fan my whole life, and it’s time other people started noticing him!"
— Joss Whedon, after being asked what made him want to tackle Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing
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Dr. Claire Saunders: So why didn’t you stop there?
Topher Brink: Because I was designing a person not a roomba. I needed you to be whole. If you agreed with everything I’d said, we would’ve missed something, and somone would get hurt.
Dr. Claire Saunders: You don’t care if - if people get hurt.
Topher Brink: You don’t know me! That’s the contract. You don’t know me, and I don’t know you, not fully, not ever! I made you a question. I made you fight for your beliefs. I didn’t make you hate me. You chose to.
I miss Dollhouse.
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One of my favorite monologues.
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Happy Birthday, Joss Whedon!
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"…but this movie doesn’t have stars and it doesn’t have a giant mega-budget, or even a simple, sellable premise. What it has is us, the people who believed unreasonably. If this movie matters to you, let somebody know - let everybody know. Make yourselves heard. […] Because remember, they tried to kill us. They did kill us. And here we are. We have done the impossible, and that makes us mighty. Thank you, for helping this movie get as far as it’s gotten. Welcome to Serenity."
— Joss Whedon (introduction to Serenity)
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The NOH8 Campaign is a silent photographic protest created by celebrity photographer Adam Bouska and partner Jeff Parshley in direct response to the passage of Proposition 8 nearly two years ago. Their portraits feature subjects with duct tape over their mouths, symbolizing their voices being silenced by Prop 8 and similar legislation around the world, with “NOH8” painted on one cheek in protest.
The campaign has grown to over 5,500 faces and continues to grow at an exponential rate. The NOH8 Campaign began with portraits of everyday Californians from all walks of life and soon rose to include politicians, military personnel, artists, celebrities, and many more. And one of the most recent celebrities to support the campaign is Joss Whedon and a menagerie of his writers working on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 8 and various stand-alone projects in the Buffyverse.
Funds raised by the NOH8 Campaign will be used to continue promoting and raising awareness for Marriage Equality and anti-discrimination on a global level through an educational and interactive media campaign.
I am shocked to know that this is the first and only NOH8 photograph of comic book industry professionals though. Why is that?
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"Bottom line is, even if you see them coming, you’re not ready for the big moments. No one asks for their life to change, not really. But it does. So, what are we, helpless? Puppets? Nah. The big moments are gonna come, you can’t help that. It’s what you do afterwards that counts. That’s when you find out who you are."
— Buffy the Vampire Slayer
How Dollhouse fans will rewrite history
Let me admit this first: I am a Whedonite, meaning I love everything that Joss Whedon’s pudgy mitts get within 10 feet of. In fact, aside from my boyfriend, Firefly is my favorite thing in all the world. I love Buffy, Angel, Dr. Horrible, Fray, Astonishing X-Men, Joss’ episodes of The Office… and yes, even Dollhouse.
But I am not an idiot, and I don’t have bad taste in television. I know that the first season of Dollhouse was mostly terrible. But we all expected that, right? Joss is a notorious slow starter - just look at the first seasons of Buffy and Angel. But it started to get good towards the end of season one. And continued to get better and better at the start of season two. Unfortunately, though, it didn’t get good enough, and FOX pulled the plug.
Recently (and somewhat surprisingly) Dollhouse started to get really, really good. The obvious possible explanation for this is that Joss is trying to take his best ideas from multiple planned seasons and cram them into the last few episodes he has left to tell the Dollhouse’s story.
I think what’s interesting, though, is that in a few years, when us Whedonites look at our Dollhouse blue-rays sitting next to our Firefly collection on the bookshelf, we won’t remember how awful the first season was, or how the show really only started to get great when the pressure was on and all last hope was out the window.
We’ll just talk about how fantastic Dollhouse was, and how stupid FOX was to pull the plug. We’ll eventually even forget that FOX has been under entirely new management since they cancelled our beloved Firefly, and we might even lump the two sad cancellations together. We’ll praise Joss for his sharp, intelligent writing and his quick, pointy jokes, and we’ll tell him how sorry we are for him and that we hope he gets back in the bull-pen soon with a new endeavor.
I’ll be one of those people.
Deep down, I’ll know I’m just a little bit wrong, but I won’t care.
Nope, not one bit.
