And as much as he considered himself a victim in many of his narratives - saying the original Buffy movie failed because big star Donald Sutherland didn't respect him as a director - he absolutely was a Hollywood insider who threw his own weight around to get what he wanted
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It's shocking in hindsight how blatantly he played favorites and did the whole stereotypical sleazy Svengali "I *made* you in this town, toots" producer shit And people were okay with it because he did it in a lovable nerdy way
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But Bill Gates for sure founded Microsoft by using a box of scraps in his garage, right?
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"Bill Gates was able to build this in a cave! With a box of scraps!"pic.twitter.com/2MLyDEttAk
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I remember idolizing Whedon when I first realized I wanted to be a screenwriter (glad to say I grew out of that by College) and thinking he was some outsider. Then I saw his grandfather worked on the Dick Van Dyke show and he was a legacy student at Wesleyan.
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There's also the bs "auteur theory" that if you let some "creative genius" run free they will come back with brilliance and therefore it's worth any harm they cause. I would literally only trust Bryan Fuller to have that power and not be an asshole.
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I always wondered how he got to do a Buffy do-over.
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For example, Once More With Feeling was not his first foray into writing musicals - he was one of the songwriters for The Lion King 2.
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All solos, I imagine? In Once More With Feeling he somehow managed to write an entire, albeit short, musical with several group numbers and there's not a single note of harmony sung.
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