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liz_marcs ([personal profile] liz_marcs) wrote2008-07-18 12:02 pm

Does this make me a Bad Fan?

Confession #1:

I'm approximately 1 gazillion times more excited about Mama Mia! opening today than I am about The Dark Knight, despite the fact that I can see The Dark Knight at no less than 2 IMAX theaters within easy driving distance.



Confession #2:

It appears that I will buy anything David Simon does because, as it turns out, he's my favorite author (for television) ever. I own the book Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets, all 7 seasons plus television movie of Homicide: Life on the Street, the book The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood, the HBO series The Corner, and the first 4 seasons of The Wire (with Season 5 on order for immediate shipping when it's available next month).

I am counting down to when Generation Kill will be available on DVD (I don't get HBO) so I can get my hands on it.

In short, you know how people will buy anything Joss Whedon does (even when it's total crap) and call him a genius for it (even though it's a case of the emperor walking around completely starkers)?

This is apparently how I treat productions involving David Simon, Ed Burns, and partners.

How can I put this...long before I let any of David Simon's stuff out of my hands, I will sell both my Angel and Buffy box sets.

The hell with that. I will burn my Angel and Buffy box sets before I give up any of David Simon's stuff.

(Seriously, those of you who kept looking for meaning in the "numbered shirts" of Buffy Season 6 that actually didn't have any meaning beyond, "We found a bunch of these for cheap in thrift shops?" Try The Wire, which actually has twice the meaning and twice the mythic elements of any Angel and Buffy episode without requiring you to fanwank. Best of all? The Wire actually has continuity that puts most book series to shame. No. I'm not kidding.)

[identity profile] skipp-of-ark.livejournal.com 2008-07-19 09:49 am (UTC)(link)
Hee. Remember when Nicky Brendon did that interview with Will-from-Alias for Kitchen Confidential and admitted that Joss Whedon told him sometime around Season 4 or 5 of Buffy that "Xander was done," there was "no more" to tell about him? And the hardcore Whedonites bent over backwards trying to convince themselves that what NB actually meant was the exact opposite of what he actually said, because what NB actually said might have cast a less-than-positive light on Joss.

Now, I admit I've been reading the Season Eight comics (and the Angel: After the Fall comics from that other company even though I still won't buy or read any of their Spike stuff), in part because Whedon finally seems to be giving Xander a plotline again (well, for Whedon, heaping tragedy and misery onto a character is the same thing as giving them a plotline), even though I'm not sure where he's going with it. But while I will admit Nick Brendon's not the absolute greatest actor in the world, I'm still a little suspicious of the fact that it took doing it in comic-book form -- y'know, without those pesky actors getting in the way -- for Joss to do it. (Given Joss's statements about how, if he had to, he'd ignore the comics as "canon" to make a Buffy live-action project, I suspect that the first step he would take would be to politely disinvite Nick Brendon and possibly Michelle Trachtenburg from participating, or at least limit them to cameos.)

[identity profile] liz-marcs.livejournal.com 2008-07-19 01:26 pm (UTC)(link)
I actually don't think the live action project will ever happen, or if it does, it'll be a re-imagining some 20 to 30 years down the road with a completely different cast. A lot of it is because most of the cast isn't nearly as interested as fans think they are, if you go by the throw-away comments they've made over the years.

As for the Xander storyline in the comics, I'm not convinced that it's so much an actor being replaced by a paper doll that's at issue as it is the lack of network interference (remember UPN practically ordered Joss to use "Spike" more in Season 7 -- remember the memo that got touted all over hell and creation when it was leaked?) as well as a changed situation opening up possibilities.

*shrug*

It's impossible to speculate since we don't actually know, well, anything. I'd put the re-appearance of anything of a live-action very, very low.