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Consequence and Change in the Works of Joss Whedon, and Why It Matters

POSTED BY: HAKEN
UPDATED: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 06:12
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Monday, March 28, 2011 11:54 PM

HAKEN

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POPMATTERS.COM - Quality and substance in storytelling tend to succumb to the weight of their own seriousness, leaving behind the lighter fare and less morbid cousins of popular culture in order to continue on in their overly serious need to prove that they do indeed have something worthwhile to say. Where the seemingly sillier stories are assumed to reside in that other, more popular world, usually occupied by soap operas and other shallow vessels of mindless fun, there are exceptions that prove the rule. Joss Whedon is one of those exceptions. Pain, sacrifice, and the overwhelming need constantly to grow and change in a way that actually makes us care, are qualities necessarily of neither style, but which when aligned in the focus of Joss Whedon, are made to converge into a glorious melding of allegory, emotion, and maybe even, guilty pleasure...

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Tuesday, March 29, 2011 6:12 AM

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Didn't mention Firefly, curious. Too adventure style? Not enough time to change from the initial premise?

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