Newsgroup: it.fan.tv.buffy
Titolo: David Mumpower critica Joss Whedon

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For loyal Firefly fans and the small segment of stubborn Henna-tattooed
vixens who refuse to acknowledge the painful truth about how Buffy's UPN
run went: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 7
For five seasons, Buffy the Vampire Slayer was one of the most inventive,
imaginative and intellectual shows on television. Sporting a caustic wit
and a never-ending drive to surprise, the tales of a do-gooder crew of
demon fighters fronted by a cheerleader named Buffy never failed to
entertain. Then, show creator Joss Whedon, one of the most talented people
in all of entertainment, made a pair of simultaneous missteps. The first
was to move the show from its home network to UPN, a competitor willing to
pay more for the same series.
The other was to launch a third series while already juggling Buffy and its
spinoff, Angel.
The result was that Angel's quality grew inconsistent, Whedon's new baby,
Firefly, received heinous treatment from its exhibitor, Fox, and Buffy went
to hell. Ignoring a sensational musical episode in season six, the body of
the two seasons on UPN were disasteriffic.
Season six was so unfocused as to have the Big Bad be a trio of
sci-fi/fantasy freaks. Coming on the heels of notable villains such as The
Master, the Mayor, a two-time slayer named Spike, and a goddess named
Glory, the trio were a stillborn story that never could have developed
anyway.
Seeking to change all of this, the final season offers a mystical enemy
known as The First. The shape-shifting entity was able to assume the form
of anyone who had died, even the titular heroine herself (who has died
twice). As the story unfolded, an event unrelated to the Buffyverse
liberated the show from its storytelling morass. Firefly was creating a
fledgling superstar in Nathan Fillion, who portrayed the captain of a ship
named Serenity. When Fox pulled the plug at mid-season, Joss Whedon found
himself with a rising talent in need of work in Fillion and a show in need
of salvation in Buffy. He deftly combined the two, allowing Fillion to show
up for the last quarter of Buffy's season as an sadistic preacher who
seemed to be ripped straight out of the pages of a comic book
named...well....Preacher.
The presence of Nathan Fillion alone is enough to recommend the final
season of Buffy albeit with a caveat. His arrival is not enough to save the
show from an absurdly self-indulgent finale which attempts to celebrate
sexual empowerment . Instead, it winds up being a mess of ill-conceived
zeitgeist and displays more than a little bit of pettiness to an actress
who had become a problem child on the set (no, not the one you would
expect). Buffy the Vampire Slayer, one of the finest shows in the history
of television, went out with a whimper instead of a bang.
The development of an inscrutable villain played by a tremendous talent is
enough to redeem its last season in my eyes, but your mileage may vary.
Jolan Tru
-- 
Filippo "Hytok" Simone - L'oracolo sampdoriano di Sunnydale
La Casa degli Elfi - 
http://www.freewebtown.com/lacasadeglielfi/
Enclave del Dominio - S.N.S. Despiser - 
http://ildominio.altervista.org/
Commissione Voyager - 
http://www.voyageritalia.com/

Hytok wrote:
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Perdona la domanda, ma chi cazzo e' David Mumpower?
-- 
Laz - [
http://www.dimensionedelta.net
]
"Old at heart but I'm only 28 and I'm much too young to let love break my 
heart" 

Perdona la domanda, ma chi cazzo e' David Mumpower?
ROTFL; sai che ti aspettavo al varco? :-) E' un opinionista!
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 ROTFL; sai che ti aspettavo al varco? :-) E' un opinionista!
Ambe', allora puo' anche sparare cazzate a suo piacimento, immagino lo 
paghino :-)
-- 
Laz - [
http://www.dimensionedelta.net
]
"You're all clear kid, now let's blow this thing and go home!"