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Joss Whedon - "Powers" Comic Book - Issue 1 - Medium Quality Pages Preview

Webmaster — 2009-11-21T17:01:45Z

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What Will Joss Whedon Do Next ?

Webmaster — 2009-11-21T11:20:18Z

It's been a dark couple of days for TV genre fans. Despite the public's obsession with vampires (evident in the just-announced People's Choice Award nominations), Eastwick was axed, Fringe and V have taken a ratings tumble, and Dollhouse has been cancelled. (The Hollywood Reporter broke the news this afternoon.) After one and a half seasons (well, two half seasons to be exact), the sci-fi thriller about a mysterious team of all-purpose programmable human beings for hire has been given its walking papers by Fox, the same network that pulled the plug on Whedon's late lamented Firefly. Anyone who's been keeping up with the show can't be surprised. The ratings were weak in its first season, and they only got weaker this season. It was a much bigger surprise when Dollhouse was renewed. (Hulu, apparently, helped. A lot.) This begs the question of course, "What will Joss do next ?" After all, he may have a full year to kill.

Cabin in the Woods — the Whedon-scripted, Drew Goddard-directed spin on the hoary cliche of teenagers stuck in a you-know-what — is in the can, though its release has been pushed back to 2011, supposedly in order to reformat it for 3-D. (Will it be more exciting this way ? Probably not. Will it be more difficult to pirate ? You betcha. MGM wins, while we, the fans, just get a longer wait.)

Goners, the sci-fi epic scripted and to be directed by Whedon, is still on the backburner at Universal. It could be there for a while longer, as the studio's most likely still wondering how to promote a film from the director of its underperforming Serenity.

Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog is probably the most succesful project Whedon's worked on in recent years, at least in terms of critical acclaim and profit-versus-cost (aside from the Buffy : Season 8 comic book from Dark Horse that he oversees and sometimes writes). So it's no surprise that a follow-up online series has been discussed. And it may be the next thing we see from Whedon, judging by his remarks today on Whedonesque about Dollhouse's cancellation. "I'm off to pursue internet ventures/binge drinking," he says. "Possibly that relaxation thing I've read so much about. By the time the last episode airs, you'll know what my next project is."

(It's uncertain when that last episode — a big finale intended to wrap up the show's storyline — will air, but Fox has announced it plans to release all produced episodes. Episode 11 is in production now, with two more to go, for a grand total of 13 for season 2.)

But it's hard not to look back at Whedon's two greatest ratings successes, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel (in their strongest seasons they represent — to my mind — his finest work), and wonder if Whedon shouldn't, with his next project, revisit the horror genre. His SF work has its admirers, but he's never quite tackled that genre with as much confidence and finesse as he has horror, possibly because Whedon tends to write from the heart more than the head. Horror, at its core, is about human emotion. Whereas SF, when it lives up to its potential — as it so rarely does on TV — is essentially a medium of ideas.

Ironically, the Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie that's in development at Fox, sans Whedon's involvement, may be the project to improve his fortune in Hollywood. This town is, after all, in the business of selling. And there's nothing it likes more than trumpeting a project as coming from the creator of another successful project.

Whatever Whedon tackles next, his legion of devoted fans will follow. But for his sake, and the sake of those who value quality genre entertainment, let's hope it reaches everybody else too.

Mutant Enemy Crossword 8

Webmaster — 2009-11-20T19:43:21Z

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Submit Whedonverse Music Videos with Whedontube.com !

Webmaster — 2009-11-18T22:25:49Z

A youtube like website dedicated to the Whedonverse.

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Joss Whedon in "Penny Arcade" Web Comic November 2009

Webmaster — 2009-11-18T13:31:29Z

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"Gone too Soon" Sci-Fi Show list with a Joss Whedon focus

Webmaster — 2009-11-16T18:51:27Z

Joss Whedon has become something of a tortured artist since 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' ended its highly successful seven-season run in 2003. Since Sunnydale was destroyed and 'Angel' got pulled right when it was finding its own identity post-'Buffy,' Whedon has yet to find another long-running hit. It's still hard to believe that a show as great as 'Firefly' only lasted one season !

Whedon's bad luck continues with the recent announcement that Fox is pulling the plug on 'Dollhouse,' a series that had enough of a following — and potential — to warrant another season. Would 'Dollhouse' have really hit its stride further down the road ? We'll never know. Here are some other sci-fi television series that met their makers too soon.

'Angel'

Number of Seasons : 5 (1999-2004)

Number of Episodes Aired : 110

Number of Episodes Unaired : 0

Network : The WB

Yes, 'Angel' did just fine, running for five seasons and enjoying a fan following that was almost as large and powerful as that of 'Buffy''s. By all means, 'Angel' was a success — the problem is that it was canceled just when it started to get really good. By season 5, 'Angel' was its own show, not just "a 'Buffy' spin-off," and it could've gone in some very interesting and exciting directions if it had stayed alive — or undead, as it were.

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'Firefly'

Number of Seasons : 1 (2002)

Number of Episodes Aired : 11

Number of Episodes Unaired : 3

Network : Fox

Another Joss Whedon Special, 'Firefly' was actually top-notch science fiction, mixing swaggering Western elements and high Space Opera melodrama with the trademark Whedon sarcasm and attitude we've come to know and at least sort-of love. The ragtag crew of the good ship Serenity was good company for all of 11 aired episodes — Whedon, however, ended up having something of the last laugh, as DVD sales of the series were good enough to warrant a follow-up feature length film, the equally excellent 'Serenity' (2005).

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All Things Joss Whedon in Fuck Yeah Joss' Verse Blog

Webmaster — 2009-11-15T18:06:00Z

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Whedonverse Shows in The best TV episodes of the decade

Webmaster — 2009-11-15T17:44:25Z

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Angel, “Smile Time” (Feb. 18, 2004)

Angel, often the black sheep of Joss Whedon's TV universe, spent most of its run in danger of cancellation for one reason or another, which meant the constant wheel of retooling essentially made Angel into a new series every season. All five of those series were compelling to varying degrees, but what it became in its final season—a workplace drama about the employees at a demonic law firm—proved the most durable. This episode, wherein the hero investigates an evil children's show and is transformed into a puppet, is both screamingly funny and surprisingly sophisticated in its examination of adult sadness.

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Dollhouse, “Epitaph One” (July 28, 2009)

Dollhouse, “Epitaph One” (July 28, 2009)Another sign of the times : Some of the best episodes of the decade showed up only on DVD, including this one, wherein Joss Whedon's latest, most troubled series lays all its cards on the table and shows that it knows where it's heading after all. Shot on the cheap with handheld DV cameras, “Epitaph One” creates a beautiful, believable post-apocalyptic future, fills in the gaps between that future and the show's present-day timeline, and deepens and darkens all the series' themes about the nature of identity and the problems that arise when we trust corporations with potentially world-altering technology. The final moments—as a trio of survivors make their way into an uncertain future—are surprisingly powerful.

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Joss Whedon - The End ? Or the Start ?

Webmaster — 2009-11-14T15:14:03Z

Fox Pulls the Plug on Joss Whedon's 'Dollhouse,' but Viral Marketing Teases Fans

Chalk up another short-lived series on the Fox Network for envelope-pushing producer and writer Joss Whedon, whose ideas for monetizing Internet programming were featured in a Knowledge@Wharton interview in February.

Fox announced yesterday that it would cancel Whedon's series, "Dollhouse," a science fiction thriller, because of falling viewership. His previous Fox series, "Firefly," also science fiction, was dropped after 11 episodes in 2002. But "Firefly" got a second life as a feature film, "Serenity," in 2005.

Now, Whedon's cult-like followers are spotting what appears to be a viral marketing campaign for something new from the mind of Whedon, perhaps an online game (known as an ‘alternate reality game' or ARG) based on the series. The campaign was first reported on Tuesday, a day before the cancellation announcement, by two web sites : io9, which is widely read by science fiction fans and ARGNet, which caters to the interests of ARG players. Web sites for a fictional corporation that plays a central role in the "Dollhouse" series are part of the campaign.

Whedon is no stranger to cross-media production. Dark Horse Comics will publish a comic book based on Whedon's online musical comedy series, "Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog." As Whedon said in the Knowledge@Wharton interview : “I'm not terribly interested in repurposing things I've already done. Obviously, I made a TV show out of one of my movies and a movie out of one of my TV shows, so it sounds like a crazy thing to say — except that I didn't tell the same story in either of them. I just took the story I had further.”

Is it possible for Joss Whedon to get a break in television ?

Webmaster — 2009-11-14T14:59:50Z

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