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  • Screenwriter Alex Epstein explains "The Rule of Joss Whedon"

    15 August 2007, by Webmaster
    I’m working on my metaphysical pay cable series, and as a massive sf&f geek, I find myself tending to look at episodes from a point of view of "what is the cool sf&f antagonist in this ep? And I have to remind myself of (what I’ll call) the Rule of Joss: don’t start with the sf&f antagonist. Start with where is the hero emotionally? What is Buffy’s real-world emotional problem this week? Now, what is the sf&f antagonist that best catalyzes that emotion or problem?
    In other words, if you (...)

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