While the show was always critically acclaimed, it was also an underdog in the ratings throughout its run-replicating, conveniently, a pattern established by such seminal nerd fare as Star Trek.
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Whedon returned to television for a Buffy series in 1997, on which he acted as showrunner. In 1991, he sold his script for a feature called Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which was modestly successful upon its release the following year, and began working as a script doctor and screenwriter in Hollywood, earning a 1995 Oscar nomination for his script for Toy Story. A third-generation television writer (his father, Thomas Whedon, was one of the original writers for Captain Kangaroo and worked in children’s television), a few years after graduation he became a staff writer on the sitcom Roseanne. Whedon went to Wesleyan in the mid 1980s, graduating in 1987.
It took years of cult hits and near misses, as well as an obsessive fandom. The invention of the myth of Joss Whedon, Nerd Master and progressive feminist, didn’t happen overnight. Previously, feminist organization Equality Now gave him an award in 2006-presented by Meryl Streep-for his efforts as a male feminist. His ex-wife also penned an article describing the ways in which his self-professed feminism was hypocritical-among other things, she said that he cheated on her for years. Right now, Whedon’s career is a mess, given high-profile allegations of abusive behavior towards his cast members going as far back as Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The things that once made his work distinct are now bland-in part because so much of popular culture has been made in his image, and in greater part because of the limits of Whedon’s imagination.
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A huge majority of science fiction and superhero movies and TV shows have dialogue that sounds like a bad imitation of Whedon’s work. You don’t have to look very far to find his legacy. While there probably aren’t many people wearing these T-shirts these days, there are at this point generations of screenwriters whom he inspired, just as he was inspired by The Twilight Zone and The Bad and the Beautiful. Whedon had been able to ride his reputation as the nerd auteur into directing Avengers and Justice League for years, a perennially popular T-shirt you’d see at any comics convention read “Joss Whedon Is My Master Now.” Up until cast members from Buffy and his later projects said last year that Whedon had been abusive on set, in some parts of culture, that was hard to imagine. Luckily, in college I met people who loved shows like Buffy and Angel like I did, but didn’t want to revere Whedon as a god. In that fandom, anything Whedon touched was considered gold, so much so that it took me many years to realize that I didn’t even like a lot of what he has written.
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