River Tam and the Weaponized Women of the Whedonverse
15.01.2013
Joss Whedon shares a lot in common with the Greek god Hephaestus—and I don't mean that he's a hairy, ugly dude conceived by his mom through parthenogenesis in a fit of jealous pique and thrown off Olympus with such force that he fell for nine days.1 Hephaestus was the armorer of the gods. He made Zeus's thunderbolts and scepter, Athena's shields, Eros's arrows, Achilles's armor, and Helios's chariot. But there's a certain blurring of.
The first in a series about our favorite TV shows past. There are some things I know to be true that cannot be objectively or scientifically proven, what theologians call articles of faith. Corporate lawyers, for instance, are not simply bad people who made poor life choices. They actually work for demons, a kind of lesser god-monster from a parallel dimension porously paired with our own. Professional politics, a career nearly all attorneys aspire to, is itself a realm of slightly higher.
Joss Whedon - "The Avengers 2" Movie - The script will be done in a couple of months
14.01.2013
'Avengers 2' Script Should Be Done In A 'Couple Of Months,' Joss Whedon Says Marvel filmmaker gives MTV News an update on the upcoming 'Avengers' sequel, his work on 'S.H.I.E.L.D.' and much more. How do you top the combined size and scale that Iron Man, Captain America, Thor and their friends brought to the table with "Marvel's The Avengers" ? According to Joss Whedon, you can't — so rather than trying to make a "bigger" film with his upcoming "Avengers" sequel, he's digging "deeper.
Who's the coolest, hottest, wittiest, most loveable TV vampire ever to sink his teeth into a jugular vein ? Some might think it's one of those pretty boys from “True Blood” or “The Vampire Diaries,” but here at The Weekly Whedon we know that the Sexiest Vampire Not Alive is Spike. (Sorry, Angel : We're with the blond Brit all the way.) James Marsters, the man responsible for giving Spike his swagger, has been dormant in the Whedonverse for a while.
After a winding, months-long copyright battle, a famous vampire YouTube mashup finally won out over LionsGate Films Thursday. Its creator, Jonathan McIntosh, said YouTube offered him no explanation, simply telling him “The content has been reinstated.” The video, 2009's “Buffy vs. Edward : Twilight Remixed,” depicts Buffy, of Vampire Slaying fame, resisting the creepy advances of Twilight's Edward Cullen, eventually driving a stake through his heart.
There were seven series of Buffy the Vampire Slayer in total. Each one boasted a different villain for Buffy to face off against. I am not talking about the one-time enemies, like Friday the Vampire or the Gentlemen. I'm not even talking about the series regulars, like Mr. Trick, Faith or Drusilla. No, this article is about the seven main antagonists throughout the series from which the main plotline revolved around. I shall compare them and rank them, depending on which one is my.
Saving lives in Serenity : can a fanboy and physics change a movie ?
12.01.2013
I was late to Firefly. Nearly ten years after the show first aired and then was subsequently cancelled, I holed up in my room, coffee and external hard drive in hand, aiming to blaze through one of the most beloved sci-fi series. A mix of science fiction and “spaghetti-western” genres, Firefly was wonderful. It certainly awakened the fanboy in me, and I quickly understood why my girlfriend envied me for being able to watch the series for the first time.