"Anne" SPOILERS
elizabeth
>>A lot of people point ot IOHE4Y as an example of everything that is
>>*wrong* with Marti Noxon. It is one of the episodes which most sharply
>>divides the BtVS community into "love it" and "hate it" camps.
>
>Yeah... camp! The lovable misfits of Camp Love It vs. the rich, mean
>bullies of Camp Hate It... hilarity ensues.
Put me firmly in your tent in Camp Love It. And thanks for clarifying why I
really can't stand those snotty rich kids over at Camp Hate It. (Where's *my*
jet-ski, huh, rich boy?)
elizabeth
elizabeth
>What evidence besides the article of faith prevalent on this
>newsgroup that everything bad on _Buffy_ is Noxon's doing?
>Self-styled critics seize on the writers' credits as proof that
>so-and-so is doing something counter to Joss' vision, despite the
>evidence of reason and direct quotation that Joss has
>complete supervisory control of script development.
Exactly. This hatred of Marti Noxon has tainted several reviewers for me. The
obvious bias supercedes any points he might legitimately have to make and stop
me from reading any further than the first paragraph. (A pity since several of
them are excellent writers.).
>But this new fixation, that Noxon must be responsible for
>everything bad in a Whedon script as well, just steps over
>into the bizarre. How is Noxon managing to slip these things
>by Whedon without his noticing, pray tell?
Why, it's female sorcery, of course. It's a spell. She makes Joss stupid and
he just ignores everything that the several David's find so obviously wrong
with everything she writes. Going from being able to detect the faintest whiff
of every word she writes in the scripts she is credited with to being able to
sniff out her contributions in scripts she is *not* credited with isn't really
such a huge leap. ALL the bad writing on "Buffy" is her fault.
elizabeth
(who counts "I Only Have Eyes For You" as one of my all-time favorite episodes)