December 26 2013
Front Row special on Buffy the Vampire Slayer airs tonight on BBC Radio 4.
The show starts at 7.15pm GMT. Listen to it live here. If you can't wait, you can listen to a clip of Joss Whedon and Neil Gaiman talking about the legacy of Buffy. UPDATE - The show now available to listen to at your leisure (well for the next seven days) and can be downloaded as a podcast (web, iTunes).
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Squishy | December 26, 11:50 CET
WilliamTheB | December 26, 14:56 CET
Simon | December 26, 15:29 CET
WilliamTheB | December 26, 15:47 CET
Buffyfantic | December 26, 17:08 CET
allthingsaverage | December 26, 17:57 CET
libradude | December 26, 18:37 CET
"Oh, we have much worse things to worry about" -- Joss
I was hoping for a follow-up question.
Meanderer | December 26, 18:46 CET
Pointy | December 26, 21:24 CET
(I'm speaking, of course, as someone who's just realized he needs to rewrite his latest novel for exactly that reason.)
ETA a necessary adjective.
[ edited by ManEnoughToAdmitIt on 2013-12-27 18:33 ]
ManEnoughToAdmitIt | December 27, 09:27 CET
impalergeneral | December 27, 16:34 CET
Madhatter | December 27, 16:42 CET
Krusher | December 27, 18:04 CET
Simon | December 28, 00:42 CET
I agree with Krusher, the new recipe should be, if you have one good female character in the show, clone her :)
They should have used the Youtube thing "I miss BtVS" as a lead out, I somehow think it fits the mood perfectly.
jpr | December 28, 04:21 CET
Sunfire | December 28, 17:20 CET
Jocelyn | December 28, 18:24 CET
Nico-Angel | December 29, 09:46 CET
"Excellent Clocks" is such a great effing title for... something, I dunno what. Maybe my Peter Gabriel/steampunk cover band.
The bits with Neil Gaiman remind me of one of my all-time favorite interviews -
Lev Grossman interviews Joss and Neil Gaiman for TIME Magazine in 2005. It's definitely worth a read. (Among other gems, it gives us this, from Joss: "That's the problem with doing anything. Everybody expects you to keep doing it, no matter what." And this from Neil Gaiman: "I saw a lovely analogy recently. Somebody said that writers are like otters. And otters are really hard to train. Dolphins are easy to train. They do a trick, you give them a fish, they do the trick again, you give them a fish. They will keep doing that trick until the end of time. Otters, if they do a trick and you give them a fish, the next time they'll do a better trick or a different trick because they'd already done that one. And writers tend to be otters. Most of us get pretty bored doing the same trick." It's worth a think or two, especially in the light of everything Joss has created since Buffy and Firefly/Serenity.)
I love/hate/groaned about Neil Gaiman also talking about writing strong women characters. His take fit in well with Joss' own well known Equality Now speech.
GAIMAN: I always feel like the wrong person to be asked, when I get asked that question 'cos, you know, people say, "Well, how do you write such good female characters?" Like, what? I write people - approximately half of the people I know are female... and they're cool, and they're interesting. And so why wouldn't I? You know, in the case of making the TARDIS a person, you make her the kind of person you'd like to meet."
ALDERMAN: Yes, this gives me nothing to help people with who cannot write good female characters, and they do exist...
GAIMAN: Well, I think the big thing to point out to people is, you know, possibly they should go and hang around with some women... and also, it's worth pointing out that people unfortunately misunderstand the phrase 'strong women'.
The glory of Buffy is that it was filled with strong women. Only one of those strong women had supernatural strength and an awful lot of sharpened stakes. And people sortof go, 'Well yes, of course, Buffy was a strong woman - she could kick her way through a door.' And you go, 'No, that's not actually what makes her a strong woman. You're missing the point..."
Finally: it's not too late for Ripper. It's not too later for Ripper. Hear my cry, oh BBC and/or other assorted PTB (with an extra hint-poke-hint to Jane Root of Nutopia).
ETF: typo
[ edited by QuoterGal on 2013-12-30 01:48 ]
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