And the thing is, my first response to the show was emotional; only secondarily was it intellectual, but that intellectual component - intertwined with the other - is what keeps me coming back to rewatch, to talk and think about it, makes it something more than forgettable popcorn entertainment. And yet I get that everyone receives it and processes in their own way (early season lovers, late season lovers, Xander fans, Banders, Spuffies, etc) and that's ok. It's part of what makes the show and the fandom so rich and interesting.
I've only done a quick perusal of Browne's essay and I notice that he mentions Whedon by name, a lot, and I guess that's the point of the essay, but I think that focusing on Whedon to the exclusion of everyone else on the team misses something, which is that the show is what it is because of an indefinable combination of talents - writers, actors, producers, etc, that no one has been able to reproduce since. local_max made a very good point about this on another of lostboy_lj's meta, "Why the buffyverse?"
I do fan certain people from the show in a way that other fans don't. I do think that the things I love about BtVS are more about Whedon than about any of the other writer/directors. ON THE OTHER HAND, I think that the Whedon/Noxon collaboration especially, and in general the Whedon/Noxon/Espenson/Petrie/Fury/DeKnight/ Goddard/etc. confluence produced something much stronger than any of them as individuals can accomplish. http://lostboy-lj.livejournal.com/37196.html?thread=385100#t385100
And I'd add the actors themselves to that list - they are all "auteurs" in a collaborative effort, so everything we see on the show (as with any tv show) is not just the result of one man's efforts.
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And the thing is, my first response to the show was emotional; only secondarily was it intellectual, but that intellectual component - intertwined with the other - is what keeps me coming back to rewatch, to talk and think about it, makes it something more than forgettable popcorn entertainment. And yet I get that everyone receives it and processes in their own way (early season lovers, late season lovers, Xander fans, Banders, Spuffies, etc) and that's ok. It's part of what makes the show and the fandom so rich and interesting.
I've only done a quick perusal of Browne's essay and I notice that he mentions Whedon by name, a lot, and I guess that's the point of the essay, but I think that focusing on Whedon to the exclusion of everyone else on the team misses something, which is that the show is what it is because of an indefinable combination of talents - writers, actors, producers, etc, that no one has been able to reproduce since.
I do fan certain people from the show in a way that other fans don't. I do think that the things I love about BtVS are more about Whedon than about any of the other writer/directors. ON THE OTHER HAND, I think that the Whedon/Noxon collaboration especially, and in general the Whedon/Noxon/Espenson/Petrie/Fury/DeKnight/
Goddard/etc. confluence produced something much stronger than any of them as individuals can accomplish.
http://lostboy-lj.livejournal.com/37196.html?thread=385100#t385100
And I'd add the actors themselves to that list - they are all "auteurs" in a collaborative effort, so everything we see on the show (as with any tv show) is not just the result of one man's efforts.