DC Films

I think I was actually 15 when I watched Buffy

Did you go to school with me?

Xander was very much the nice guy trope who is a total fucking creep.

I have never liked firefly. One of my first posts on the old EG forum said as much and some of the OG Forum Royalty lost their minds. I thought I would be shunned forever.

There was an original set of forum royalty who used to post in the style of a bad Douglas Adams/Blackadder fan fiction who eventually either left, got banned or realised they weren’t interested in a two way conversation and became prolific on Twitter.

Well if you want to be validated for your witticisms and block anyone who doesn't 'get it' then Twitter is the place. Fwiw I can't stand Firefly, my uni housemates couldn't understand how I was totally into Buffy but not Firefly. I dunno, I guess there must be a reason why a series gets cancelled after 1 season and the feature film doesn't do well. You can't just keep saying you don't understand.

Yeah I missed part of the first season of Buffy back in the day because it was "that show my little sister is watching, sounds dumb", then my younger brother was watching it too, and I was like "huh", so I watched it as well. It was pretty much the only show we all watched. Also notable the wives of most of my friends are Buffy fans even if they don't like genre shows generally so I think it is pretty common in the age group.

I rewatched Buffy early in the pandemic, and it mostly holds up, but Xander is right fucking wanker. I had genuinely forgotten how much of a cock he was. I'd go as far as to call him an borderline misogynist early on, despite (?) his "nice guy" bullshit. And yes he should absolutely have died not Anya.

@rummonkey Re: praise I think it's mostly because his approach to dialogue and characterisation, for better or worse, extremely influential (the MCU today is absolutely "Whedonesque"), and whilst it's possible to debate whether his storytelling approach was equally influential, or whether the sea-change in storytelling was merely happening around then, and he just got ahead of the curve a bit, but certainly the way he told stories in Buffy reflected the future, not the past - a future we are absolutely still in. In a way Buffy (again, for better or worse), was a sort of blueprint for most genre shows since. Pity he seems to have been a similar sort of cock to Xander.

I would commence the shunning, if I wasn't so lonely already...

I forgot to mention Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog which was great, and he also worked on the screenplay for Toy Story, but then so did everyone.



A huge part of it is down to Robert Downey Jr as well, though I couldn't say whether that was down to Favreau picking him or not.

Personally, it kinda annoys me the other way. His writing/dialogue style was always a bit Marmite, but it seems like in recent years it's become the done thing to write off his contributions to everything because of off-screen events.
That's probably just the fanboy in me talking though.

Probably a 15... Don't think Americans have anything between their PG13 and R ratings.

Difference between R and NC-17? Commercial Suicide.

You can still take your 5yo kids to see R rated film. Just have to be with an adult.

Watched all three episodes currently available. It's really good, IMO. Much better than Gunn's Suicide Squad film, more in line with the Guardians movies quality-wise.
Also it's R-Rated as fuck, with the cursing, sex and violence, so maybe best not to watch it with young kids, if that's a concern.

Was anyone genuinely expecting this to be anything other than a PG-13/12A?