Rethinking Joss Whedon's Legacy Amidst Bullying Allegations
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🗓️ 25 January 2022
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Motherboard's Gita Jackson considers Whedon's influence on his fans and, more broadly, pop culture, and freelance tv critic Robyn Bahr talks about the reasons why she doesn't think she'll ever rewatch Buffy the Vampire Slayer again.
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| 0:00.0 | Buffy the vampire slayer first of all, I'm a vampire slayer and secondly, I'm retired space western firefly |
| 0:11.3 | And marvels the Avengers sort of like a team Earth's mightiest heroes time thing |
| 0:16.7 | They all have one big thing in common and that is |
| 0:19.7 | Joss Whedon |
| 0:21.2 | It's almost impossible to escape the sort of marquee has left on genre fiction in particular |
| 0:27.0 | Geet the Jackson is a staff writer at Motherboard Joss Whedon's style of dialogue has become incredibly popular across genre fiction |
| 0:34.4 | I think especially because he road directed marvels Avengers movie the first one |
| 0:39.1 | Pleasure they're basically gods |
| 0:41.1 | There's only one god man, and I'm pretty sure he doesn't dress like that |
| 0:44.5 | They say Whedon was ahead of the curve in plotting story arcs that unfold not just episode by episode |
| 0:51.5 | But over an entire 26 episode season |
| 0:55.3 | Russell C. Davies the first showrunner for the modern reboot of Doctor Who mentioned Whedon specifically as an inspiration |
| 1:02.5 | In recent years allegations about Whedon have surfaced they range from inappropriate behavior around young actresses |
| 1:09.9 | To bullying on set and they span much of Whedon's career from his work on 2017's Justice League all the way back to Buffy |
| 1:18.6 | Consider this the entertainment industry continues to grapple with abuses of power and holding powerful figures |
| 1:28.1 | Accountable we'll look at the allegations against Joss Whedon and speak to fans reckoning with his impact on their lives |
| 1:38.1 | From NPR I'm Elsa Chang it's Tuesday January 25th |
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| 2:04.0 | It's consider this from NPR |
| 2:06.2 | Lila Shapiro is a senior reporter for New York magazine. I didn't necessarily know why he decided he wanted to talk to me |
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