There’s so much recency here

Welp, speaking of entitled scumbags, G/O Media has finally succeeded in driving a stake into the AV Club’s heart. If there’s a writer here who you like, they’re probably gone as of today:

Point B is 100 % true, but Point A can’t be overstated - it’s such a bad line! It’s long and clunky, and doesn’t even hold up when you think about it - lightning strikes have very different effects on different things. I’d imagine a toad who gets hit by lightning dies at a far higher rate than a human who does. A tree…

Look, I’m not saying all 23 year olds are idiots, or that a young woman, or man, can’t date someone older. If Florenece Pugh and Zach Braff are happy together, that’s their business.

I think it was Liz Sandifer who dubbed this the Chris Clarement Effect: that weird moment when the thing you’re horny for just happens to fit into the zeitgeist in a way that is materially progressive despite that fact that your motivations are minimally 95% boner-related.

You’re not wrong, but at the same time, with respect to the “waif who can beat the shit out of anyone,” that WAS the whole point of Buffy. You’re looking through a 2022 lens at something that was very subversive in 1992. In the early 90s, no waif was beating the shit out of anyone (in Western entertainment, at least).…

How twisted is that; Dan freaking Harmon was better at navigating workplace accusations than Joss Whedon.

See also: the first Charlie’s Angels movie with Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz, and Lucy Liu. Or the Spice Girls. In the late ‘90s and well into the ‘00s, a lot of pop-feminism was big on “reclaiming” women’s sexuality from horny men, in a way that didn’t really challenge the emerging bro culture (or, if you’re British,…

I don’t like Whedon, but I don’t think it’s correct to say he “failed upwards”. He created multiple shows that were able to run for many seasons.

The thing about narcissists, right? They love hearing themselves talk, and they have no self-awareness to realize how they sound.

On the intro to Fray, he went on about how Kitty Pryde was his favorite character and he wanted more characters like her. Which, cool! But then he went on about her body and how he wasn’t into the usual buxom superheroine types. And I realized, at the time, that he somehow believed being attracted to slimmer,…

Please, like Aaron Sorkin is aware that other people exist

Oh I wouldn’t be even 1% surprised if we eventually hear about Sorkin doing some serious shit, potentially even worse. I’ll bet Joss has heard stories about Sorkin and Matthew Weiner and thought “ah well, I feel better.”

Yeah, one of the few crumbs of Whedon’s account I believe is that Cyborg tested poorly and the studio mandated those cuts. “Body horror and suicidal depression in a superhero movie—you know, for kids!”

I always push that to the furthest extreme, politics. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was one of the most important laws of the 20th century. The president who pushed for it used to take his dick out and smack people with it. Just because LBJ was abusive doesn’t me that the law wasn’t good.

I mean, yes and also it’s larger than that?

I gotta imagine there’s a point where the interviewer, regardless of what kind of article they intended to write, realized just what Whedon handing over. Just a slowly dawning realization, "he's really just going to say this shit"

Who’s a better director than Joss Whedon? According to Joss Whedon, nobody!

Did you not SEE the part where he said he’s one of the nicer showrunners?