Right, the thing about people remembering Whedon as a scrappy little underdog with Buffy is that it's in relative terms - he was born to Hollywood royalty and an established screenwriter for years when he finally got the chance to do Buffy as his passion projecthttps://twitter.com/benjanun_s/status/1373321336005611520 …
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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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Replying to @arthur_affect
I used to see people talk about how he had a bunch of shows cancelled out from under him really abruptly, before they could get going, but that only happened once with Firefly? And then he got to make Serenity.
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That really applies more to his collaborator Tim Minear than to him
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