![]() Whedon claims that he began writing the failed Buffy movie and the successful show to develop strong women characters. Buffy dies for her “sister” Dawn because she deems it better so and there is an underlying objective morality to which judgments about the justice of the cosmic order are made. The viewer is superficially led to assume that no sacrifice is meaningful in the Buffy-verse, but repeatedly, sacrifice is meaningful. The end of Buffy where characters worry as much about the unlamented destruction of malls as they do about the death of key characters is typical. This person described Whedon to me as having a deep antipathy to God through personal pain that made belief in a meaningful universe difficult. ![]() I had a private conversation with a person associated with Whedon in the production of Buffy. His shows consistently assault the idea of any divine craftsman in the universe. Given his approach to the icons of Christianity in all his series, from Buffy to Angel to Firefly, it might be better to say that Whedon deeply dislikes God than that he disbelieves in Him. This separates him from the optimistic atheism of someone like the late Gene Rodenberry, creator of Star Trek. Fundamentally, he believes that humankind makes its own meaning in an absurd universe. ![]() He describes himself as an atheist and calls the God of Christian theism a “sky bully.” Whedon is not hostile to Christians, but feels American culture is hostile to his lack of faith, claiming that he would like to have faith, but has none. Joss Whedon is open about his hostility to Christian theism. To take the details too seriously was to show that you were clueless, but real fans also recognized that all the irony and eye-rolling masked some of the most clever myth making and story telling on television. Whenever an episode failed dramatically, then it could be described as ironic, when special effects were “cheesy” due to budget constraints, they too were part of the game, and so the show was protected from possibility of ridicule. The show was written to have both serious and satirical sides allowing its creator Joss Whedon and his stable of talented writers to tell traditional morality and hero tales to a more cynical generation without turning off his viewers. 1 When combined with the show Angel, fans frequently refer to the “Buffy-verse” and take the world-view found on the show very seriously. It also has a large number of active fan sites, an academic journal Slayage, and was the second “most missed television series” in December of 2005. ![]() It never drew a large audience, but was very well received critically, dominated the coveted youth demographic, and continues to have a cult following. #SERENITY SYMBOL BUFFY SERIES#Buffy the Vampire Slayer, a television series about a young woman chosen in her generation to fight the forces of darkness, was on the air from 1997-2003. ![]()
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