You're listening to Imaginary Worlds, a show about science fiction and other fantasy genres.

I'm Eric Mollinsky.

It is New Year's Eve.

Released when this podcast is going out because it goes out on Wednesdays.

Happy New Year, everybody.

This is not a great week to put out original content, so I'm just going to play an interview

that I did with Joss Whedon.

The Joss Whedon back in April of 2007.

We talked for half an hour and maybe four minutes of that ended up on the air, not including

clips from Buffy and narration.

So I'm really glad I can actually play most of the interview.

So this was a few years after the Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Angel and Firefly had all gone off the air.

Iron Man had just started filming.

So nobody knew that someday Joss Whedon would direct the Avengers in the sequels and be

the godfather of all Marvel films.

At that point, the biggest thing going on in his career was a Buffy comic book which

told the story of what happened to the characters after the series finale.

And also during this time, the big controversy for Buffy fans was that Joss had stopped

being the showrunner in the last two seasons because he was working on these other shows.

And it's funny because the writers on Buffy were really great and very well loved by the

fans until Whedon stepped away.

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