Joss “The Boss” Whedon has taken some time out to answer fan questions over at the MySpace comic book site. It’s only a few minutes long but as usual with Joss Whedon it is well worth a look, though he is still dodging the “Goners” questions Gorram it!
According to their site:
We took YOUR questions from MySpace Comic Books and brought them to Joss Whedon. Check out his thoughts on love, Astonishing X-Men, and his next project. Joss is auctioning off dinner with him during San Diego Comic Con to benefit Equality Now. For more information, visit: www.myspace.com/equality_now
Click through to see the video on their site and read up on some of the fan’s replies, or just check it out in the VodPod in my sidebar.
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Over at the Great White Snark website they have posted an article looking at eight reasons why you are missing out if you have yet to watch any of Joss Whedon’s Firefly ‘verse.
My favourite: #6, Serenifly in Space! Click through for their full article.
I’m sure you fans can think of a couple of other reasons to recommend Serenifly, so let’s hear them in the comments.
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Hannah Betts over at the Times Online compares the modern Doctor Who with Joss Whedon’s “Buffy”, looking at Russell T. Davies ’sexing up’ of the series. Mr. Davies has previously expressed his admiration for Joss’ work, and it certainly shows in the latest installments.I for one am really enjoying the current series of Doctor Who, though I would still sacrifice it for more Whedon. 
Click through for the full article.
The Doctor’s
recreator, Russell T. Davies, has expressed his admiration for Joss Whedon,
the genius behind Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and the series gets Buffier by
the moment: witty, literate, sophisticated, and revelling in postmodern
panache. Blink, the episode preceding this trilogy, was awesomely
terrifying in the manner of Whedon’s Emmy Award-nominated silent episode of
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There’s another pleasing aspect to all this Buffiness: a certain – let us
express it in Blair terminology – sexing up of proceedings. |
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For those of us who were unable to attend Collectormania this year Steve Himber over at James Marsters Live.com has kindly provided a transcript of the Q & A from the Sunday.
As always James is very entertaining and there are plenty of great anecdotes that he shares, looking at his singing as well as his acting, and some of his hopes for the future. The full Q & A was over an hour so there is plenty to read, just makes me really wish I could of been there to hear it all ‘live’.
It’s well worth a taking a look at so click through for the full transcript.
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Jo Chen’s cover art for Issue 6 of Joss Whedon’s ‘Buffy Season 8′ is now online at Comic Art Community, and Faith has never looked better!
This is a Brian Vaughn issue, the first one of this series not to be written by Joss himself, so it will be interesting to see what Vaughn does with this.
Click through to see the full size image.
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It seems impossible to think that just 10 years ago a TV series had no purpose other than to tell you a story each week. Character arcs were just about unheard of, other than in soaps, as the ’story’ was all.
Some tried to mix things up a little, Star Trek: DS9 being one of my favourites of its time, but it was not until Joss Whedon came along that the way TV was made really began to change, until we reach the point today where it is almost impossible to find a show that doesn’t to some degree try to give their characters an arc of some kind.
Gone are the days of Columbo and The Rockford Files which, though they had great characters, never allowed their characters to learn, now we have the CSI franchise and Bones where the characters arc is as important as the story.
We see this also in the new Battlestar Galactica and Doctor Who, revamped series that have gained much from the changes in storytelling brought about by Joss.
The TV Show Blog has an excellent article exploring the Joss Effect, looking at how much we have gained because of this, even though the storyline’s can at times put us through the emotional wringer.
Click through for the full article.
What do you think? Did Joss really change the way TV is made? Or were others there before him? Let us know your thoughts in the comments.
Doctor Who – The TV Serial & The Joss Effect
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| For me, as the title indicates, this really started with Joss Whedon and Buffy The Vampire Slayer, one could make an argument for Star Trek: The Next Generation but it was just too sterile to have an impact (and don’t get me wrong I like my Next Gen.). |
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Would you like to see ‘Firefly’ as you have never seen it before, in High Definition?
Well you can this July if you have the cable television network Universal HD. Unfortunately I don’t. They have also opened up a webpage and message board to mark the event.
Lets hope that this means that at some point we will get to see a Hi-Def version of ‘Firefly’ on DVD. Wouldn’t that be just shiny?
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Hercules The Strong over at the Ain’t It Cool news site has posted his review for the fourth issue of Joss Whedon’s Buffy Season 8 comics, the review is full of spoilers so beware clicking through!In brief? He likes it!
Herc’s Seen Episode 8.4 Of
BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER!!
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I’ve been a bad bad Hercules. Issue four of Dark Horse’s new “Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Season Eight” series has been on the stands since Wednesday, but all sorts of last-minute stuff – mounting piles of pilots and Galactica and Jericho and Veronica – kept me out of the comic-book stores until a few hours ago. But I’ve now read and digested the wonderful “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” 8.4, which successfully concludes writer/mastermind Joss Whedon’s excellent initial “season-eight” arc. |
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One of the blogs that I am following in the Whedon ‘verse at the moment is Christian Kane’s new blog, Smoke Signals. Christian and his Country Rock group ‘Kane’ are in the middle of a UK tour so it is no surprise that he has blogged about how it is going, seems like he is having a great time so far and is on his way to Brighton for their gig tonight at the Barfly Brighton.
Unfortunately for me the London tickets are sold out, but if you are in the Brighton area tonight there are still a few tickets available, go see the show, I’m sure you won’t regret it. 
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The folks over at IGN.com have posted an interview with Summer Glau looking at her work on the new “Terminator” and “4400″ TV series.If you are trying to avoid spoilers for the “Sarah Connor Chronicles” you would be better off avoiding the article, otherwise click through for the full interview.
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Exclusive: Summer Glau Talks Sarah Connor Chronicles
The Firefly star tells us about naked fight scenes in The Terminator TV show and if she’ll be back on The 4400.
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Following her roles in Firefly, Serenity, and The 4400, Summer Glau continues her one-woman domination of science fiction in the next television season, with the premiere of The Sarah Connor Chronicles on FOX. This new TV series is a spin-off of The Terminator films, picking up two years after the events of Terminator 2: Judgment Day, as Sarah Connor (300’s Lena Heady) and her son John (Heroes’s Thomas Dekker) are on the run and preparing for a possible future war against the machines. |
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