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you know when buffy summers had a knife to her head and her lover asked her if she had no weapons no friends what did she have left and she said me? yea that saved my life a little
#sorry to say that joss whedon saved my life but he kinda did#having such a strong and layered character who can never stop fighting was so relieving to watch#because i felt the same and it gave me hope#just like xander said i also sometimes ask myself what would buffy do#she just. means a lot. to me.#buffy summers#angel#btvs
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Cordelia Chase + Pink Pony Club - Chappell Roan
#LITERALLY THE BEST GIRL IN THE ENTIRE FUCKING WORLD#CORDELIA CHASE YOU MEAN SO MUCH TO ME#SHES SO#GOD I FUCKING HATE JOSS WHEDON FOR WHAT HE DID TO HER#ill never get over her i fear#anywhoooooo#ik this song is abt queer culture. but i was listening to it nd i just had a vision#nd now heres this <3#cordelia chase#ats#btvs#charisma carpenter#mygif#this isnt her entire character arc. but after this point is when it gets blurry and strange#i didnt like the ascention stuff nd everything after that was soo so rough#(except your welcome) but i didnt wanna skip all of s4 for just one ep#plus the lyrics i picked (i think) perfectly surround the earlier parts of cordys life#ughhhh my girl#my fabulous fabulous girl
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just realising that Bucky's post-WS story needs to be about a man who is radically displaced in time and has almost total amnesia and no sense of identity -- no friends, no family, no money, no shelter, no resources at all -- and he's disabled, and he's being hunted by, probably, every government on earth? (and probably a bunch of other people?) for crimes he doesn't remember. All he has is a name. That's it.
...which is SO interesting and complex!
And I almost have to laugh because, of course - of course - these idiots couldn't write a story that actually addressed such a juicy premise! They couldn't even manage a simple 'Captain America in WWII' movie without fucking something up, so of course they were never going to handle Bucky's story properly! They're simply not talented enough.
The premise was ‘so imagine if John Wick was from the 1940s and also a cyborg with amnesia’ and they said ‘...best we can do is another iron man movie??’ ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
#bucky barnes#mcu salt#my meta#mcu criticism#thing that's never occurred to me before...#what we needed is a nolan brothers - a tony gilroy - a doug liman directing - maybe a charlie kaufman too#but what we GOT is... markus & mcfeely: the super mid bros 😕#with joss whedon... and those guys who did episodes of community 😬#and SPELLMAN? and the guy hired specifically to write bucky quit and they just... didn't bother replacing him#ability-wise none of these people are up to the challenge of writing bucky properly#and I know what you're thinking:#'but cat - all those fanfic writers handled it just fine'#EXACTLY#because they're qualified#they're talented#he should've been a mashup of all those movies with amnesiac protagonists#and all those movies where someone is hunted by a shady government without knowing why#bucky just. being a basic generic dudebro villain who remembers everything?#= completely throws away a juicy premise#dat's me
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MILF (Media I’d Like to Fix)
#i could fix her#Vampire chronicles#bbc sherlock#tbh#supernatural#everything joss whedon has ever touched#moffat era doctor who#love never dies#heathers the musical#Ken’s arc specifically in season two of dirk gently#The Broadway transfer of Charlie and the chocolate factory#the list could go on forever#another day of posting the first random shitposts that pop into my head#has this joke been made already#idk#but if so I’ll make it again
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Sometimes I think about s4 of angel (the series) and am still just completely baffled. Like what to you mean the creator of an incredibly successful tv show and pretty successful spin off completely derailed an entire season’s plot line and destroyed a beloved character just because an actress was pregnant?
#watching s4 is just like ‘wow joss whedon must really hate women’#I’ll never understand it#ats#skipps speaks
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oh i thought misa’s poll was for third place?
I was under that impression too, but I'm not gonna fight about it y'know? I'm pretty sure it's the finals, but even if it isn't, you know this is the real final in our hearts.
Again, LOVE Misa, girlie was done super dirty, reduced to a sexy dumb ditz when she managed to figure out Kira before L himself, so loyal she gave away years of her life for magic eyes, and treated with contempt and scorn by the narrative for having a crush on a guy who doesn't give a shit about her. I'm not downplaying a scrap of how badly she gets treated in Death Note.
That said... Atom Bomb vs Hydrogen Bombs, y'know?
Bumble's short life is in the background of two books. She's dragged back to a domestic abuser for being a useless fat lady, apologizes for being upset about that on her deathbed, and gets gored just so we'd be sad about her serial woman-thrashing murderer's reputation. Everyone who hurts her is a celebrated hero who was never "truly" bad, their constant violence and contempt towards women excused and justified, her life so worthless she's not even tallied under Tom the Wifebeater's crimes... in a book for 10 - 13 year olds.
Cordy's last season is a DARK, EDGEYY character assassination that made everyone on the set uncomfortable, involving adoptive incest, forced birth, and body possession. When the beloved and long-standing character was killed off unceremoniously, cast members were left to speculate why and blame themselves for years, until Charisma Carpenter came out recently to reveal that everything done to her character was possibly (likely) Joss Whedon trying to hurt her through destroying her most beloved and lucrative role.
Like, Misa's got it bad. Cordy IS, and Bumble SHOULD be, LEGENDARY.
#When I was delving into the Joss Whedon stuff in research#I saw a statement where they said the plot was based on....... king arthur.#like. mordred and morgana.#The fucking guy has only addressed the allegations to deny them but his OFFICIAL story for how they treated Cordelia Chase was-#-Something Something King Arthur.#This is why he's never coming back to save England btw. He's a buffyverse fan and he's in his king arthur cryogenic stasis watching Angel-#-On his phone and reading that killed him for another 500 years#Same thing's happening over here in America btw. Paul Bunyan read what happened to Bumble and he's still crying.#(I am now enamored by the world I've described where paul bunyan is america's king arthur)#(our shitty misogynist media killed your magic savior and your shitty misogynist media killed ours)#we have only one hope. gamera save us#bone babble#canon misogyny tournament
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One thing that I really admire in long-form storytelling is when the writers/showrunners/etc. aren't afraid to make Big and Permanent Changes. There are so many series that I've eventually fallen out of love with simply because everything stays the SAME - no one ages, no one dies, no character arcs feel like they're ever really resolved. Sure, maybe shit gets shaken up for an arc or two, but eventually everything returns to the status quo. It feels like being fed the same dish over and over again; you liked this in S1, so surely you want the exact same thing now in S7???
And like, I can SEE where it's coming from. A story is a huge and finely-tuned machine, and it takes guts to just throw a wrench in the works, especially if your audience loved it the way it was to begin with. Any change, even the good kind (going off to college! Getting that job you wanted!) comes with grief. (What about your family - your friends - that old corner store across from your house with the ice cream you loved? That one coworker who you were kind-of-sort-of buddies with, but not enough to properly stay in touch?) But that's just life. And that's why I feel like I connect far more with stories that actually evolve, and show their characters evolving with them. Your mother dies. Your best friend loses their magic. You lose your sword arm. Your home burns down. None of it is coming back. The old times were good - but the new times can be good too, in a different way.
#Yes I've been thinking incredibly deeply about Adventure Time why do you ask#But also plenty other stories too#Like not to praise Joss Whedon's writing but: In BTVS when Buffy's mother fucking died??? damn!!!!#You're 19 years old. You're an incredibly powerful slayer of demons. You've been through literal hell and saved the world dozens of times.#You come home and your mother is dead. Of something so stupid and mundane as an aneurysm. You never got to say goodbye. And you never will#like what the fuck!! that's so good!!!! who put this trauma in my camp vampire series!! My 14yo ass was FLOORED#Anyway#writing#charlie speaks
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I'm watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer again and I'm at the part where Buffy returns after running away for the summer because she had to murder Angel to save the world for the 800th time.
Dude...
Why is everyone acting like Buffy is the issue? Her mom kicked her out of the house, she got expelled, was wanted for murder, and went through a tragic experience. But you hate her because she didn't talk to you for like 2 months? HUH???
When she packs up to leave again, I was like "yes, leave girly!" Her friends threw a party at her house, they refuse to talk to her, her mom doesn't want her there... I would have left as soon as I came back.
#like sorry you couldn't slay vampires without her#sounds like a you problem#Willow your dating problems are like the least of Buffy's worries#Xander not telling Buffy that Angels soul would be restored?#Has Joss Whedon never had a real friend?#buffy the vampire slayer#buffy summers#buffyverse
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Amy Manson in The Nevers (2021-2023) as Sarah, Effie Boyle and Maladie
#amy manson#the nevers#maladie#effie boyle#joss whedon#hbo#sci-fi#fantasy#victorian england#tv stills
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literally. one of the most overdone character archetypes in media. I was done with her the second she arrived. It's one of the reasons why I don't care much for s3 (the other reason being angel). Also, her arc in that season is so underwhelming?? The only faith centric episode I sort of enjoy is who are you, and that's probably because SMG is playing her 🫢
see i think i actually mostly disagree w you (im not sure what u mean by overdone archetype. like what. the bad girl? which can be done in an interesting way. i dont think its overdone) its that i can see all the parts of faiths character and how people can find them compelling and interesting. she is a tragic character. its very easy to see how her mistakes compound on each other to deepen her rift w buffy. its just that 1. u also throw angel in the mix as a stupid kind of love triangle and i hate him so who cares. choose neither of them. and 2. eliza is not a good actress shes so boring and its why i personally dont care for her s4 episodes bc shes does not convince me playing buffy. also everything about how faith goes about the buffy/riley stuff in that episode pisses me off so bad. in conclusion faith just bores me so like. who cares abt her. literally just a matter of taste like the way some peoples favorite food is something i cant stand. nothing wrong w her just not for me and i dont want her mixed in w the other foods i do like
#eliza and david getting to be the leads in other joss whedon shows never fails to confuse me. they arent good why are you making them leads#asks
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I think Xander is bisexual but he's extremely repressed and homophobic about it and this will never change
#giles is also bisexual and it simply never comes up bc he understands a work-life balance#willow. doesnt ascribe to labels but one day she'll have a sweet charming nerdy wife. this better come to fruition in this show thats been#over since 2003 or else im killing joss whedon with my bare hands#q watches btvs
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was never big into stony because i'm team stucky until i die but they were really onto something with "back off" "oh, i'm starting to want you to make me" that was gay sex
#oh avengers 1 we're really in it now. never thought i'd be looking back wistfully at joss whedon but here we are#not aou though fuck that movie. how dare you make wanda and pietro team up with NAZIS. they're JEWISH AND ROMANI you IDIOTS.
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Joss Whedon's The Dollhouse
Adelle, portrayed by Olivia Williams, is my favorite character
#joss whedon#eliza dushku#olivia williams#dollhouse#harry lennix#fran kranz#adelle#sci fi#dystopia#dystopian tech#they serve out prison sentences like this#ms. lonelyhearts#personas#cyberpunk#“actives”#“dolls”#i never finished it but i think i will now#Youtube
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the miserable feeling of getting to the last episode of The Nevers and realizing we got Big O'd again.
I mean they did a really good job of wrapping up a lot of the plot and I think it's actually not the worst place to leave off thematically and even kind of... fascinatingly uncomfortable?
so I guess maybe what we really got was End of Evangelion'd 😬
which [stares at the corpse pile] yeah
would I recommend the Nevers?
well,
"True" is one of the most balls to the wall brilliant sci fi reveals I've seen, on par with some of the most buck wild things in Lost, and then they come back from a TWO YEAR HIATUS and frantically clean up the mess of a plot outline they were left with and arrive at a genuinely pretty brilliant pair of finale episodes... which leave on if not a cliffhanger absolutely the sense that the story was SUPPOSED to keep going
so
idfk man, do I recommend Big O?
maybe I should write something just about, idk, watching things and getting something out of stuff that is by nature of its production just sorta fundamentally incomplete
I don't really know exactly how I feel about it myself though I suppose.
I just am drawn like a moth to a flame to stuff that has this vibe, and I guess The Nevers proves that I can sense it even before the fix is in. there's nothing that appeals to me like a lost cause.
I will say this show is probably worth it for the autistic vriska coded Bird Boy, and the poor little meow meow disaster dyke energy of the main character who is canonically bisexual and poly and just a fucking mess.
could be worse I suppose. it could've been Wonder Egg Priority.
maybe I'll write about it some day. Sarah just expressed a longing for the days of fan magazines that would've covered a show like this. I'm not sure where its audience is now. I doubt anyone's tuning into fucking Tubi to watch these last six episodes lol. where does a fandom go for something like this? even the age of blogs is well past us. in a way, the doomed feeling conclusion fits with the production history and what its likely place in culture will be. there's a definite sense in the end, I think, that sometimes you do your absolute best, and it just doesn't quite work out.
was there still a value in the doing?
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BTVS AU where Spike and Drusilla are both at full power and beat Buffy/Scooby Gang without Angelous (they kill Angel before that). Unlike the Master’s AU ep they keep the Masquerade because Spike fondness for the world as it is and at heart he’s not really all that bothered as long as he can feed and have a little fun now and again.
BUT they have to defend Sunnydales Masquerade against the later season’s big baddies who want to pull the curtain down.
Spike and Drusilla vs the Mayor, first he comes to them to join forces after they kill Buffy to kill Faith before she can stop him, then when he tells them his plan after they spend half a season to kill Faith. Spike turns on the Mayor.
Spike and Drusilla vs the Initiative/Adam, basically the US military have to try and take over Sunnydale to farm the Demons for soldiers. Spike and Drusilla have to beat them back because Sunnydale just got very boring from losing all their demon pals.
Spike and Drusilla vs Glory. Somehow the Key falls into Spike and Drusilla’s lap one night and Drusilla can see it for what it is. Maybe they both injest the Key’s blood and now they’re the key and have to find a way to stop Glory from bleeding them dry.
Spike and Drusilla stop Nathan Fillion from killing all the girls first in Sunnydale. Then the First gives Spike his soul back to torture and weaken him before it opens the hell mouth for the UberVamps to come. Drusilla manages to rally up the Vampires to fight against the UberVamps otherwise they’ll be wiped out by the introduction of a new Predator on Sunnydale. She finds the amulet somehow and gives it to Spike because fuck if she cares about Soul Spike anymore. When they’re fighting in the Hell Mouth, Drusilla tries to duck away whilst Spike explodes in sunlight but he grabs her before she does and they both turn to dust whilist wiping out the hell mouth and Sunnydale.
#btvs#buffy#btvs au#btvs spike#btvs drusilla#this whole thing is born from 4 hours of sleep badbrujah drinking caffiene and being pissed that we never saw full spike and dru together#also fuck you joss whedon#i know you'd hate this one#also in this au drusilla is some kind of warlock#basically a witch but uses demon magic
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Yes, I find Joss Whedon and his brand of insincere meta commentary insufferable. Yes, I enjoy Dr. Horrible's Sing-A-Long Blog and consider it a piece of comfort media. We exist
#dr horrible's sing along blog#joss whedon#the man is an incel and I don't care for him#or the way he treats the female characters he writes#or his brand of Marvel adjacent cynical meta commentary#but that series caught me in a vice grip when I was young#and it has never let go#solar talks
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