Favorite Joss Whedon TV Show

[Lilaena De'Ville]

You can choose only one. Choose wisely.

[Dasquian Belargic]

Well that's not fair. :mad

[Lilaena De'Ville]

I almost included Dr. Horrible, but it was a webseries and not really a TV show.

Pretty soon we'll get to do a "Joss Whedon Movie" poll, he's getting quite a few of those under his belt.

[Captain Untouchable]

It's hard to pick a "favourite" Joss Whedon series, because they're all so different. Sure, they've all got the awesome characters, interactions, and dialogue that Joss puts in everything... but the style, genre, pacing, themes, and approach to storytelling is totally different. (Which is a big part of what makes watching Joss stuff so fresh, IMO)

It's like trying to pick which one is your favourite child. :uhoh

[Crusader]

It's like trying to pick which one is your favourite child. :uhoh

That is an easy one. The one that loves SW and Video Games the rest went to the orphanage anyway!

[Droo]

That was easy!

[Dasquian Belargic]

Don't worry Buffy, I still love you.

[Darth Turbogeek]

Hard to pick....? Oh I do NOT think so! You got three forgettable to outright overhyped shows verses one that is genuinely brilliant.

And also had Christine Henricks breasts make an appearence.

That by itself is reason enough to pick the one and only good series in the poll but Firefly is simply the one that should never have been cancelled. The other three should be taken out the back and be shot.

Plus they dont have Christine Henricks breasts. Did I mention Firefly features them?

OOC but I also recommend Mad Men, season one which features Christine's very spectaclar ass. Never mind it's a great show, her ass is truly salute worthy

[Lilaena De'Ville]

...So, it appears to be a landslide!

[Dasquian Belargic]

Well trolled, Mark. Well trolled.

[Darth Turbogeek]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H81WqK92qE8

[Lilaena De'Ville]

You're so very sexist, Mark.

[Darth Turbogeek]

Sexist? Fuck no, this is straight out lust! if I batted for the other side I'd be drooling over Nathan Fillion instead :D

Or who was that doctor guy? He was f'ing hot too.

[Vince]

Sean Maher. I think.

[Taataani Meorrrei]

I hate vampires and don't know what the fucking dollhouse is, so yeah I'm pretty biased towards Firefly

[Dasquian Belargic]

I think that the premise of Dolhouse would have made an interesting dystopian novel.. but the concept was perhaps too complex for TV. Also, it was difficult to relate to the main character since her personality changed every week. But I enjoyed the short run that the show had.

[Lilaena De'Ville]

Dollhouse suffered a great deal from studio interference in the beginning, so I've heard. FOX liked the 'sex doll of the week' angle but once the show managed to move past that and highlight the other AMAZING actors on the show it got a lot better.

That being said, we totally bailed mid season 2 and have yet to finish it. I hear it got really good right about when we stopped watching it. I did watch the last episode of S1 and S2 though, which were pretty awesome.

[Captain Untouchable]

I'm with Jenny on the whole "hard to relate to" hero thing.

Dollhouse is pretty similar to a TV show called Joe 90, made by the guy who did Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet, etc. In it, the protagonist (Joe) effectively became a super-spy, because each week they would temporarily download the memories/skill set of some super-genius into his head using special glasses, and he'd use it to save the world.

It was a show for kids, but the thing that made it work is that you actually got to see Joe being himself for big portions of the episode: he was this eager kid who just really really wanted to help, and that was something that you could relate to... he was taking big risks, doing it willingly, and he wasn't even in his own body when it happened. I think Dollhouse might have been more relatable if the dolls had maybe had a bit more personality from the very beginning, rather than being blank slates until things started going wrong.