Oh, Firefly...

[elisi]

adoxerella has a lovely More Joy Day reccing post, which reminded me of this awesome, awesome Firefly/Serenity vid:

The LJ post for it is here: Project Awesomesocks (very aptly named) and the first comment is from Joss himself. No really!

Anyway, it made me remember all the reasons I love that 'verse (which, unusually, I just love, with no urge to play with the meta), and Joss' writing and characters. *deep sigh* (He should never be allowed near [Buffy] comic books though. Never ever ever.)

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[elisi]

Fair enough. Especially since it's just been revealed that 'season 8' was basically Brad Meltzer's fanfic that Joss signed off on...

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Even without that revelation, as I said to monanotlisa, there is an obvious explanation for the difference in quality. Script doctoring for X-Men 1 aside, Joss had never written the X-Men before, though he was a fan from boyhood onwards. He could approach those characters with all the eagerness you have for new projects, things you haven't done before, new ground, instead of revisiting old vistas, so to speak. Whereas I think he had said all he wanted to say about Buffy & Co. on the show itself, and after seven years, that's not surprising.

Also the AXM run was limited to three arcs making one superarc, and it's always good, from a writer pov, to know you can't drag something out ad infinitum.

Incidentally, the original characters he created in addition to the established X-Men all became stalwarts of the Marvel universe thereafter, which in one particular case I was especially glad for. (As this was Joss, I was afraid he'd kill her off, and the bastard teased us with an almost-death accordingly, but left her alive and florishing in awesome moral ambiguity.)

[elisi]

Joss had never written the X-Men before, though he was a fan from boyhood onwards. He could approach those characters with all the eagerness you have for new projects, things you haven't done before, new ground, instead of revisiting old vistas, so to speak.
*nods* Much like RTD and Moffat are both huge Doctor Who fans - it gives them enthusiasm, but also a respect that might not be there when it's someone's own work.

Also the AXM run was limited to three arcs making one superarc, and it's always good, from a writer pov, to know you can't drag something out ad infinitum.
Absolutely. One of the main problems of s8 was the 'We can do ANYTHING !' approach....

As this was Joss, I was afraid he'd kill her off, and the bastard teased us with an almost-death accordingly, but left her alive and florishing in awesome moral ambiguity.
Neat! :) (And I happen to have the perfect icon! *g*)