Joss Whedon

Zack Handlen

I’ve got certain issues with Joss Whedon as a writer, but if I’m honest with myself, I have to admit that those issues are as much based on my emotional investment in the worlds he creates as it does on any critical assessment. Good TV shows in general excel at creating surrogate families, but there’s something about Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Angel that gets through my defenses every time. I actually have to take a break from both every now and again, just because I get too caught up in them—it is surprisingly hard to explain carrying a sack of wooden stakes into Wal-Mart. (Look, I don’t care if the florescent lights wash out skin tones, that pale motherfucker in Gardens had a hungry air about him, and those bottles of “V-8” weren’t fooling anybody.) Apart from Dollhouse, which I enjoy but hasn’t really gotten its hooks into me yet, I’d be happy to live in any part of the Whedon-verse, even knowing I would almost certainly be killed off in some later season just because Joss doesn’t believe in happy endings. (No spoilers, but yes, I’m still bitter.) But if I had to pick, I’d want to be part of Serenity’s crew in Firefly. Same core group vibe as in Buffy and Angel, with no high school or lawyers to worry about, and all that space to move around in—it sounds pretty shiny. Oh, and being there would give me a chance to see some of the storylines through, provided I lived long enough.

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