Personally I side with Whedon because none of his series ever get old to me and they always put a fresh spin on something thats been around for ages.
So which of these two cult TV creators do you side with, why, and if not either of them Who then?
Are you a Whedon person OR a JJ Abrams guy?
Personally I side with Whedon because none of his series ever get old to me and they always put a fresh spin on something thats been around for ages.
So which of these two cult TV creators do you side with, why, and if not either of them Who then?
Everything JJ Abrams does is the damn same. Lost has just gotten fucking silly and Fringe is horrible.
Joss Whedon is dynamic, and hasn't done anything that I've ever seen that I haven't liked.
Fringe definitely needs to prove it can be different.
For LOST, well, do not get me started.
I'm personally a Tim Kring fan.
I hear the voices inside my head. They counsel me. They understand. They talk to me.
Originally Posted by djwolford
IMO, he's 1 for 3
tim kring is listed as a writer under the heroes video game
what do you think
credited as "Creator" and "Characters"
who care what do you think of a heroes video game
will it suck like most tv shows video games
Oh, I mis-interpreted what you were saying sorry.
I'm not sure what to think right now.
It sounds like it could be pretty cool, I'm curious though.
Very Curious.
Your thoughts?
Joss Whedon by a landslide. JJ Abrams has never really struck my fancy, whereas I would go out of my way to find some of Whedon's work.
after season 1 and 2 i didnt think it would make a good game, but with the way season 3 is going it might. since its going more towards action then dealing with your powers realistically. which is what really drew me into the show
The question shouldn't be dismissed too easily. JJ Abrams is one of the biggest names in the art of storytelling. Undisputed king of the metanarrative -- i.e. outside-narrative-narrative (Lost miniwhatsits, the Cloverfield mythology, the Fringe backstory etc) -- and is bringing some really fresh ideas to TV and pop culture. If he isn't responsible for thinking them up, it's him who's made them big and brought them into mainstream culture. Abrams made episode-by-episode intrigue into a fucking art form with Lost such that Heroes doesn't even compare. Heroes would probably be nothing without Lost -- it didn't get the idea from Lost, then at least Lost made audiences used to the weekly cliffhanger thing. Yes, shows have done it before, but they haven't often been megahits like Lost and Heroes and they haven't done it in the jawdropping way that the two of them do it.
JJ Abrams is a pretty smart guy, but his shows are story driven. Whedon's are character driven. You could watch a bunch of Whedon characters sitting in a room doing taxes and it'd be better than watchable -- Abrams stories need some kind of powerful motivating plot to make them watchable. It depends on personal taste, I suppose (though I hate to admit some of these things depend on personal taste) whether you prefer story driven TV or character driven TV, really, and I definitely prefer character driven.
But, having said that, I don't think it's even arguable that Abrams is better. Maybe if Whedon weren't also such a story genius, then it would come down to taste, but even if you prefer story driven to character driven, and EVEN if you think Abrams is a better storyteller, It's like a score of
Whedon:
story - 80
character - 95
Abrams
story - 85
character - 65
So, yeah. Whedon all the way. That's my breakdown.
Firefly trumps all.
Yeah this isn't a particularly interesting post is it.
Nothing has ever topped Twin Peaks.
Regardlessly, my vote goes for Seth McFarlane...
no but it's true
QFT.
Serenity was the shit as well
I knew I could count on you gwahir
J J Abrams needs to wash his mouth out with buckshot
wait
pause
rewind
someone in this thread used the word "regardlessly"
I vote we strike anything he has ever said, will ever say, or even contemplates saying from the record
Is it not more worrying that after that came the words 'Seth McFarlane'?
It's nt srs k?
GET THE FUCK OUT YOU IGNORANT SOD
One of the big issues with LOST, and this, of course, is my own opinion, is that it is continually being driven away from a character dependent plot. Originally, LOST essentially meant characters that were lost in their own lives and how they coped and experienced rebirth (Flashbacks are indicative of this). However with the introduction of flash forwards it seems it's a mythology push from here on out. You can only pump a character with back story so much.
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