I have only seen his recent stuff, The Avengers and such, but Firefly to me is on a whole other level. The characters, story, direction and world building is just incredible. Its also surprisingly a lot darker than i expected coming from his marvel movies.
Is this his best work or has he done something on a similar level? I really liked Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog too!
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Oh yes, very undateable.
Nah. His best work was "discovering" Chris Hemsworth.
Oskars problem with Eli is not her ambiguous gender, but her ambiguous humanity.share
Firefly is one of my favorite shows so I decided to check out a couple of other things he had done. I picked up Dollhouse and a couple seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer but I couldn't really get into either of them.
I think Buffy the Vampire Slayer is his best work because he got to really develop it and take to many different levels.
Firefly is probably his strongest and best beginning to a show. I really don't doubt if it had been able to continue, it would've become his magnum opus.
Let's be bad guys.
Buffy is his masterpiece. Always will be!
shareIMHO Buffy the vampire slayer is his journeyman piece.
Firefly would have been his masterpiece, but the show was butchered by incompetence of others.
Firefly lacks some of the attributes of BtVS, such as Buffyspeak ("can you vague that up for me?"), but it improves on others.
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I'm not really sure. Maybe we should "River" his brain and see if he's got another winner in there. :)
shareI definitely think this is Joss' definitive work.
Buffy and Angel were brilliant and still are, but you can definitely see him trying and improving on himself episode by episode and season by season.
He took all that he had learned from making those two iconic series and applied it to making Firefly. And the result is nothing short of astounding.
That isn't to take away from post-firefly works, as they were all brilliant in and of themselves, just not quite as much so.
Dollhouse had a very intriguing premise and knowing how he envisioned it to end up, it would have been interesting to see it evolve there progressively... how the characters get from where they start, to where they are in the Epitaph episodes.
The Avengers showcased everything Whedon does perfectly. The
Age of Ultron just asked him to work far too much into the story to make any kind of sense. There was two films worth of story in that movie.
It isn't as bad as BvS which had ay least 3 or 4 movies worth of story crammed into a single one, but not even Joss Whedon can tell a sequel that stands on its own, as well as sets up the next three movies and the next direct Avengers sequels, takes into account the minutia of crap that has happened in the shows and also previous non-Avengers related MCU movies.