Part of this could be my reaction to later Whedon writing -- upon rewatching, later seasons of Buffy and Angel seriously lost the plot, and his work on Astonishing X-Men and Buffy: Season 8 hasn't done anything to reassure me that his long-form storytelling works anymore. Which is sad, because his work's going to figure into this meme a lot -- confined to an episode or two, he's one of the best at what he does, but longer-term...I worry.
I certainly didn't start watching Firefly -- partially because "space western" doesn't fill me with anticipation, and partially because I was perturbed that it was apparently becoming his priority over the other Mutant Enemy shows in production at the time. But I accidentally caught an episode at work and, well, that was enough to get me hooked.
And adding to that the fact that we never really got to see certain stories that were obviously waiting to be told -- particularly Book's -- yeah, I can totally understand this needing to be at the top of the list. But in its short time, it gave us much.
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Date: 2011-01-21 11:40 pm (UTC)I certainly didn't start watching Firefly -- partially because "space western" doesn't fill me with anticipation, and partially because I was perturbed that it was apparently becoming his priority over the other Mutant Enemy shows in production at the time. But I accidentally caught an episode at work and, well, that was enough to get me hooked.
And adding to that the fact that we never really got to see certain stories that were obviously waiting to be told -- particularly Book's -- yeah, I can totally understand this needing to be at the top of the list. But in its short time, it gave us much.