In hindsight there were a few issues with Buffy. The ‘icky’ relationships that Buffy had with centuries old vampires for one. The other one was there was not, not one, happy ending for any of the relationships formed during the show. I get they were kids and they were at war with supernatural but even the adults couldn’t sustain a relationship. Maybe I am sentimental but really?!
Fyi, the Joss Whedon controversies are a little more than "he was difficult." Dude is a flat out abusive person, specifically and aggressively towards women.
FYI, I never said "he was difficult." I said he "wasn’t very nice to people." From everything I have read around the place, he wasn't a professional-acting person and said some outright c-nty things to a lot of people.
There are two physically abusive incidents I have heard about which are hugely problematic - one in which he held a costumers arm, and another where he pushed James Marsters up against a wall. If he was a staff member of mine, there would be some serious conversations with HR and whatever follow-up is deemed necessary after that. But I probably wouldn't fire him. I don't believe someone who I have no direct engagement with should be 'cancelled' because they acted poorly and their employer never took action.
In regards to emotional abuse or, in the very least of it, poorly considered conversations, I honestly don't have much interest in litigating incidents that I wasn't present for and am only hearing the perspective of a select number of people (many who aren't identified by name and some who also have some career-based motivation for some retaliation). It's not the full story. And look, maybe what they are reporting is as close to a truth as there ever can be such a thing. But I don't know that. You don't know that.
There's a lot written about it, and a lot he's confirmed. I'm not going to comment on it further other than to remind that there was eventually a set edict stating that he wasn't to be left alone with any females on the cast and crew. There was a reason for that.
There was a claim by actress Michelle Trachtenberg that there was an edict that he wasn't to be left alone with her. This doesn't seem to have been a 'set edict,' but rather a rule established by her family that she was to keep with and enforced by whoever was looking after her on set.
And yes, that's a disturbing allegation. But outside of the allegation made by her, that's the only source of this being a thing.
In hindsight there were a few issues with Buffy. The ‘icky’ relationships that Buffy had with centuries old vampires for one. The other one was there was not, not one, happy ending for any of the relationships formed during the show. I get they were kids and they were at war with supernatural but even the adults couldn’t sustain a relationship. Maybe I am sentimental but really?!
Watch them butcher the Buffy reboot 😅 I give it 2 seasons max. SMG will nail it tho.
Fyi, the Joss Whedon controversies are a little more than "he was difficult." Dude is a flat out abusive person, specifically and aggressively towards women.
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FYI, I never said "he was difficult." I said he "wasn’t very nice to people." From everything I have read around the place, he wasn't a professional-acting person and said some outright c-nty things to a lot of people.
There are two physically abusive incidents I have heard about which are hugely problematic - one in which he held a costumers arm, and another where he pushed James Marsters up against a wall. If he was a staff member of mine, there would be some serious conversations with HR and whatever follow-up is deemed necessary after that. But I probably wouldn't fire him. I don't believe someone who I have no direct engagement with should be 'cancelled' because they acted poorly and their employer never took action.
In regards to emotional abuse or, in the very least of it, poorly considered conversations, I honestly don't have much interest in litigating incidents that I wasn't present for and am only hearing the perspective of a select number of people (many who aren't identified by name and some who also have some career-based motivation for some retaliation). It's not the full story. And look, maybe what they are reporting is as close to a truth as there ever can be such a thing. But I don't know that. You don't know that.
There's a lot written about it, and a lot he's confirmed. I'm not going to comment on it further other than to remind that there was eventually a set edict stating that he wasn't to be left alone with any females on the cast and crew. There was a reason for that.
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No, that's not correct.
There was a claim by actress Michelle Trachtenberg that there was an edict that he wasn't to be left alone with her. This doesn't seem to have been a 'set edict,' but rather a rule established by her family that she was to keep with and enforced by whoever was looking after her on set.
And yes, that's a disturbing allegation. But outside of the allegation made by her, that's the only source of this being a thing.