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Firefly book series announced: Joss Whedon to serve as consulting editor
- deweller 9y agoI never forgave Fox for cancelling this show.
- IntronExon 9y agoForgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
- e40 9y agoHow about playing them in a different order than Joss intended? That was also a terrible sin. And moving them around the schedule so much? They seemed to really try very hard to make it fail.
- paulcole 9y agoIs this just a way for Whedon to test public response to him working on a new project after all the stories about him being a scumbag came out last year? If it's quiet enough he might use it as his chance to work on a TV or film project again someday.
- runevault 9y agoI hadn't considered this angle, but after everything he did (especially with his branding as a feminist etc), I am surprised anyone would want to work with him right now because it seems like anything involving him would struggle to reach his own fans.
- megaman22 9y agoIn the deluge of revelations about the scumminess of Hollywood types, I think his rather pedestrian foibles have been drowned out in the minds of most... I had to go google "Joss Whedon scumbag" to even remember what he was in trouble for.
- tomcam 9y agoIf your politics differed from his you would remember, because I’m a huge Joss fan who’s had to sift through a ton of insults to my beliefs in order to keep up with his work. I respect my opponents’ beliefs but I am quite happy to see him suffer the blowback on his rank hypocrisy.
- IntronExon 9y agoWhat a nasty load of projection and assumptions! I don’t think that it takes politics to differentiate between rape, sexual assault, patterns of abuse and harassment... and cheating on a spouse. Dozens of people coming out and describing the behavior of someone like Weinstein or Spacey is on a different planet than an ex accusing someone of serial cheating.
- paulcole 9y agoWhen you have to make the "he's not as bad as ..." argument about someone, they're still pretty bad. Sure, being a scumbag is a continuum. But it's pretty easy to argue that someone who espoused feminist beliefs (and profited off the image that gave him) while cheating on his wife is squarely on it.
- IntronExon 9y agoWhen you have to make the "he's not as bad as ..." argument about someone, they're still pretty bad. I agree, but I didn’t make that argument. I’m saying that there is a fundamental difference between scummy and criminal, and they are not part of the same continuum.
- kbutler 9y agoHoped I'd see they were working with Steven Brust, author of the excellent Vlad Taltos fantasy series, who wrote a fan fiction Firefly novel, "My Own Kind of Freedom" http://dreamcafe.com/2008/02/05/firefly-novel/ http://dreamcafe.com/2008/02/05/firefly-novel/ Well worth a read, though as with all things Firefly, it just leaves you wanting more... Cory Doctorow's plug https://boingboing.net/2008/02/18/steven-brusts-unauth.html https://boingboing.net/2008/02/18/steven-brusts-unauth.html
- lerie82 9y agoIt was a mistake cancelling this series, the books won't cut it.
- dang 9y agoPlease don't post unsubstantive celebrity announcements here. Whatever they gratify, it isn't intellectual curiosity, and that's the criterion on HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- xbmcuser 9y agoI hope no prequeals I hate prequeals carry the stories forward