"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
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On Sat, 11 Oct 2014 07:40:30 -0400, "Jim Wilkins"
wrote:



The Whedon clan is better at writing for female heroes, beginning
with
Ellen Ripley the Alien slayer.

Whedon wrote "Alien"? Excellent. He also wrote Buffy, one of my
all-time faves. He outdid himself with their witty reparte'.
"Angel" was OK, too, for a male (anti-)hero. Let's see, Serenity,
Firefly, Dollhouse, Titan AE; the man is a screenwriting GOD.

He said he was an uncredited Script Doctor on the earlier ones. He was
the listed writer for the fourth, which he'd like to disown.

It's too bad he burned himself out trying to run Buffy plus Angel and
Firefly simultaneously. "The Avengers" was a string of recycled
"Buffy" jokes.

While he had only one show to concentrate on he coaxed better work out
of David Fury, Jane Espenson, Marti Noxon et al than they demonstrated
on later shows; Noxon crashed very badly with Point Pleasant and is
merely adequate on "Glee". I thought Fury's "Lost" scripts were
muddled and Espenson doesn't impress me nearly as much with "Once Upon
A Time" as her "Buffy" hilarity ("and wackiness ensues"), though their
new "Frozen" characters Anna and Elsa (Haig was future daughter Etta
on "Fringe") are worth watching.