We have a lot of Whedon fans on this board, and arguments galore. So let’s take this polling feature our for a spin.
Which of the projects that Joss Whedon has had a major contributing role in is your favorite? You may expand, expound, and pontificate at your leisure.
Firefly. I have no leisure.
I would have a really hard time choosing, but why isn’t Dr. Horrible an option?
Yep. Never “got” Buffy.
Reported, and maybe a kindly mod will repair my error.
Write in vote for Alien: Resurrection.
In rough order:
Buffy (the series)
Firefly
Serenity
Astonishing X-Men
Angel
Dollhouse
Buffy (Season 8)
Dr. Horrible
Buffy (the movie)
Angel is my favorite. I was a latecomer to the show (didn’t start watching it until S5) but when I got all caught up with the DVDs, I fell so hard. I always was frustrated with Buffy because it felt like the world was so immature–like everybody on Buffy was stuck in an arrested development. But on Angel there were so many shades of gray that sometimes it was difficult to even define right and wrong. The characters felt so real to me and I loved them all–mainly because of their flaws. The really ironic thing is that I hate, hate, hate, hate Angel on BtVS. I cannot stand him and I can barely make it through S3. I find every second he’s on the screen so painful. But when I watch Angel, he’s my favorite character and I adore him completely. I think the Hellmouth makes him braindead.
I wish more people loved the show. I’m always in the minority.
Done – after 15 people had voted, thus undercutting the otherwise rigorously scientific nature of this poll.
Me either.
My choice isn’t on the list, because he was just a minor contributor on it. Toy Story.
No Serenity?
Wait. Someone voted for the movie?
Nothing tops the Buffy TV series. Firefly was good, but not up to the level set by the Vampire Slayer.
I consider Serenity a part of Firefly.
Firefly, with Dr. Horrible second. I tried to like Buffy, I really did, and it’s the kind of thing I usually like. I just couldn’t get into it, though. I didn’t hate it and I understand why others like it, but … meh.
P.S. If you’re counting the Buffy comics as a separate project, then there are Firefly comics that bridge the last ep of Firefly and Serenity.
Buffy was my favorite show when it originally aired but watching some episodes six years later, I think it’s still good, but not as good as I remembered and not as good as Firefly.
Buffy is one of my 10 favorite shows ever. And yet I voted for Firefly.
I absolutely loved Firefly. Based on the strength of that show I took a chance and bought season 1 of Buffy and I thought it was terrible. I wanted to like it, I really did, it just didn’t click for me.
It’s my second pick after Firefly.
Dr. Horrible.
Then again, it’s really mainly because of NPH that thing shines.
But not really a wedonverse fan I suppose, I just enjoy his stuff, but don’t really pay attention to it.
I didn’t know he made the Buffy Movie- I probably saw that first way back in the day when I was a lil’ kid.