Joss is a bastard but I love him anyway

jimithingy & I have been rewatching season 2 of Buffy (well, rewatching for me, first watching for him). Anyway, he pointed something out to me - Joss Whedon is a bastard. But, as jimithingy also said, it makes for some damn good TV.

I adore Joss, but really he is a bit twisted. Angelus is just wrong on so many levels. The way he crushes Buffy in 'Innocence' when they speak in his bedroom. The way he reveals their trist to Joyce on the front doorstep of their house. The care he takes to torture Giles with Jenny's corpse and the sadistic pleasure on his face as he watches Buffy and Willow collapse at the news of Jenny's death. Xander's confusion between his lust for Cordelia and his everlasting crush towards Buffy (and that fact that he thinks she's even slightly interested). And of course...Becoming Part II....and that's just season 2!

But it's amazing storytelling. You don't know where it will end up. You're caught up in the characters, in their lives. It's not just a connect the dots sort of show, the twists and turns really amaze you. Even watching it for whatever number time this is for me, I'm noticing more and more things, little bits of character development, things I had forgotten about that the characters are still recovering from or suffering from in season 7. (Willow telling Giles she can handle the restoration spell and Giles saying that "channeling such potent magicks through yourself, it could open a door that you may not be able to close" made me go "ooooooh!!")

So thank you Joss. Thank you for being a total bastard.

On that same note, I finally watched my Joss Whedon: The Master at Play DVD. It's worth the money for Nathan Fillion's smart ass introduction. haha. He does enjoy making faces. Joss was insightful as always. I only watched the "interview" portion. there's still a whole Q&A session to get thru. But he covers everything. Takes a few digs at 'Fastlane' ("That well will never run dry. I wake up in the middle of the night just to make fun of 'Fastlane'.) and explains that, while Alien Ressurection causes him pain in some parts ("cuz it sucks..."), he learned a great deal from the process of creating it.

One thing that he said that made me go "Hm" was this -- he said that television asks questions, movies are answers. Or, in the same vein, television is feminine - let's talk about it and work it out - while movies are more masculine - let's do something and finish this! And it got me thinking if that's why 'Serenity' was such an upset for some people. It's a movie, but I feel like Joss tends to think like a tv writer, so it doesn't answer all the questions. It doesn't wrap up everything in a big pink bow. It leaves questions about where our heroes will go next and how life will treat them. And that doesn't bother me, but I have this feeling that fans who saw 'Serenity' first then went back to 'Firefly' felt as though the movie should have finished everything. But Joss is not about answers - he's about questions.

He also said that he doesn't let actors re-write him, which explains David Boreanaz's comments when discussing his freedom on 'Bones'. Joss said the only actor he's ever let write for him was Nathan during the 'Serenity' shoot ("Mal would say something here..." Nathan shouts "Faster would be better!!"). Apparently this is where his big beef with Donald Sutherland comes from since he apparently kept changing lines in the Buffy movie.

Joss also enjoyed getting applause for being bitter and said only at a screenwriting convention could you ever get applause for being bitter ("and I'm going to get a lot of applause.")

I may go back and watch it again just to write down some of the quotes. He said some very silly things. I might have to screencap at least once too as he did not attatch the mic to his shirt but talking into it...so there's big ol' Joss holding a tiny mic...it just made me smile..if anything you should see that.

*pokes brain with spoon*

Okay, usually I can figure out where my dreams came from - sometimes it's from watching too much TV, sometimes they are from playing video games, and sometimes they are just regular anxiety attacks. But last night...last night i had this really weird dream and I cannot for the life of me figure out where it originated!!!

In my dream, I try to flush the toilet, but it won't flush and I can tell that it's clogged, so I grab a plunger and start plunging and I feel the suction working and what comes out of the toilet?? a human ribcage with a heart still inside!!! In my dream, I got naseous and ran out of the bathroom, grabbed poor jimithingy and made him clean it up (which he did).

How did these bones get into my head?? Why did they get into my dreams? I'm very disturbed the this dream. not that i think it's a psychic premonition or anything, but just what was my brain doing last night!!!!

and in other news - I FINALLY ordered the new Whitlams album. I was waiting to order thru their official store but they were taking forever opening it up so I was like "whateva" and went to the HMV Australia website and ordered it there. Shipping will be silly but I can't get the blasted thing over here so it's worth the extra cash. I got the Limited Edition set which is in a "digipack"...and then I realized I'd heard that word many times and never knew what it meant. So I googled, ended up at Wikipedia and found out it pretty much means I'm paying for a prettier case and possibly some extra content, though the product description was vague. Now to start counting the days until it shows up....*puts an X on the calendar*

And I did get my haircut Wednesday! I went for a variation on this Veronica Mars cut. I had mine cut a bit shorter beause it grows so fast anyway. I'm actually quite happy with it! The hair styling lady showed me that I have the option to flip it under or out! It's like a transformer on my head!