[ SECRET POST #5096 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5096 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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[The Great British Bake Off, series 11]


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[Story of Yanxi Palace]


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06. [SPOILERS for Once Upon a Time]






















Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 00 secrets from Secret Submission Post #729.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I never watched Buffy the Vampire Slayer, nor watched The Boys. But I have watched Joss Whedon movies, didn't like their writing (nothing personal his fans, this is just a me thing), found out they were written by him, and also read his proposed screenplay for Wonder Woman and was pretty glad that he didn't get chosen to write it.

In general outside of Joss Whedon as a writer, I think having no badly written female characters is better than having badly written female characters plus the resulting misogyny/sexism in it. At least in the former situation, I could always pretend that the story would do a fantastic job with female characters if they only added them in. With the latter, I'm proven that no, they couldn't, and actually it would've been better without the cringe-worthy scenes where the writer just does them dirty. :(

[(Anonymous)]

I enjoy Joss Whedon's writing, but I'm glad he didn't write Wonder Woman. Avengers was fine, but he's a master of snark and one-liners. Wonder Woman is a different kind of character/film.

Joss is not a Kubrick. He has pretty specific strengths and is not really capable of going way outside of the box.

[(Anonymous)]

DA - Seconding all of this. I used to think he was brilliant, because in the landscape of mediocre 90's TV writers he was genuinely pretty excellent. But in hindsight, it's clear he has a lot of limits as a writer. Things he writes well include quippiness, entertaining team dynamics that involve all the characters and give everyone a chance to be awesome, and heartfelt story beats.

Things he doesn't write well: Most other stuff.

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT, but agreed. Honestly, on the feminism angle, it's not so much that Joss's writing is any more sexist than the next Hollywood writer. Buffy was (sadly) groundbreaking for having a cast with multiple young women who were both kickass and not competing with each other for a man. Usually. Where he falls down is that he never really thinks the feminism through much past "what if the cheerleader was the badass?" so there's still all the same, gross, "sex and partying leads to death" tropes, only Buffy beats her way out of being punished for it. And, more importantly, here we are twenty-something years later and Joss is still writing like it's 1997 and expecting cookies for it.

[(Anonymous)]

Wonder Woman was boring as hell.