Joss Whedon

Maestro. Madman. Feminist. Misogynist. The Guy Who Stumped David Lynch. Joss Whedon gets called a lot of names, but as a general rule, if someone is so polarizing, they are probably doing something right. Or at the very least, they are doing something interesting.

Whedon’s impact upon the television landscape has been undeniable. Prior to his arrival on the scene, and with perhaps the exception of Chris Carter’s The X Files, the rest of the modern American televised sci fi/horror landscape was suffering from something of an image problem. (Was it the skin-tight catsuits? The wooden, or too technical, dialog? Was it Alf? Hard to say. To then throw a bunch of teenage characters into that mix, with all their inherent awkwardness, would have been unthinkable.) And besides, mainstream America considered the whole scene to be the domain of freaks and geeks, anyway.

But then Whedon went and got all clever on us. He threw together some snappy dialog, and deep metaphors, and complicated characters, and dark humor, and proceeded to skewer the traditional growing pain-y angst thing in a way that was interesting enough to capture the attention of the whole world. Even the adults. So, love him or hate him for it, Whedon did a lot in bringing the “weirdo” genres out of the dark, fringe-dwelling recesses of pop culture, and into our living rooms. And hey, he imparted nerds with some serious street cred in the process.

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