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That actress with the reporter is Ashley Johnson. Chrissy from Growing Pains, and Ellie's VA in The Last of Us.

I know that's not really relevant to what you're getting at.

If that changes your perspective on this show, Tudyk and Fillon among don't mind praising him in a personal level right now. They have a podcast together I found recently and in the last show they invited another common friends of his.

I don't follow what happened, I don't really care much about who's who on the media (except when the fucking critical drinker appeared in an audiobook), but I was surprised after all the negative feeling I've seen

That was cut, but he kept the boob shots.)

..the editor, you mean? Your best example is something someone else did?

Did his writing fall off? Is there something in his later work that was really bad? If not, I don't see any reason to think he couldn't do it again, and he's probably got more ideas on how to do it than anyone.

Twenty years ago he was the only one who could do it. He wrote the manual on genre-bridging action/comedy storytelling with an ensemble cast. It's why Avengers worked when it probably shouldn't have, and any similar successful properties since then have followed his lead.

I'm not trying to deify the guy, but I think the unique nature of his talent is swept under the rug since he got canceled.

A lot of stuff came out a few years ago, tons of specific instances, but it mostly boiled down to him just being a jerk. Saying mean things, saying them meanly. Stuff that would have gotten most people fired.

I'm understating it, but it wasn't overtly misogynistic or racist. No sexual misconduct, unless cheating on his wife with consenting adults counts.

Just... being a dick.

It's not sexual stuff, but Charisma Carpenter wrote about what an absolute sadistic and petty asshole he could be. It's hard not to see with Cordy later in Angel.

Buffy worked because of the particular writing style. The snappy little jokes and dialogue but paired with a genuinely horrific setting.

Whedon has been involved in a lot of projects as a script doctor. Called in to give dialogue a once over.

So that style of snappy little jokes made it's way into fucking everything, even when it actually clashes with the setting and detracts from the story.

So now we're all sick of that "style".

Of all fandoms, Firefly fans were exactly the type to take out a full-page ad in a major newspaper (hmm, remember those?) in a bid to keep the show on the air.

Worked for Hazbin.

Well, too be fair to the network, coming back to the series without my rose tinted glasses I absolutely blame Joss for sticking to his guns and insisting the pilot had to be feature length. That pilot absolutely could have been cut down to less than an hour, and as you said the out of order opening left audiences confused. I'd say it's like 70% the studios fault and 30% on Wheaton.

Don't forget how Fox wouldn't even keep to a schedule. Shows would get bumped from their slots on an almost weekly basis to play baseball, "news flashes", re-runs of movie franchises that had a new film coming out soon. It was like a 2/3 chance that the show you wanted to watch was even going to air in its usual time slot each week.

Ah, the Farscape treatment.