Jimmy Higgins

I heard this morning that they were going to be going over Buffy the Vampire Slayer and philosophy on "All Things Considered" today, 5/13, on NPR. Probably want to give it a listen.

jess

... and it will be available on-line at the NPR official site after 9:00pm EST...

Clarice

Yay! I'm reading Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy right now, and it's very entertaining and thought-provoking. I can't wait to hear the story.

jess

well, so far all it has been is junk on Sars, the bombing, tornadoes, and other stuff.

c'mon, get to the meat!

jess

um, if you listen, it's the last 5 minutes... any one of us could have done better.

and the intro was negative and tongue-in-cheek. The story itself was fine, but the intro included 'will the strange academic appeal of BtVS survive the series dying?' (while academics have been waiting for the series to finish so there will be a 'complete collection of work')

thanks for the heads up--- I did learn there was a Joss interview on NPR a while ago... I may buy the tape...

Invader Tak

Feh. The show has been dying for 2 years now.

Joss Whedon is the new Chris Carter.

Mediancat

Chris Carter created one successful series.

So far, Joss has two.

Chris Carter WISHES he were Joss Whedon.

Rob aka Mediancat

Jimmy Higgins

What has been so bad about season 6? I saw it and wasn't really disappointed. It was different, but it took a different tact than the earlier series. You bring someone back from the dead, it shouldn't be the same old same old. Oh well. I'll take it. One ep left.

ksagnostic

Ditto. Plus, Mr. Whedon doesn't seem to have Carter's inflated opinion of himself (although in fairness to Carter, Millennium wasn't bad).

However, both Carter and Whedon seem to be object lessons from Fox. They seem to want to punish cult favorites, and "put them in their place". Fox's handling of Firefly will forever blow.