One of the things I love most about the Buffyverse is its grounding in the real world - as if it's our world only skewed sideways. Its mundanity, if you like. I also love the underlying mythos of the world, with the Fanged Four and the Slayer legacy etc. However, in Fray, I found myself confronted with a character I didn't know or care about and who had no connection to the characters I did know and care about, and who simply wasn't interesting when cut off from that Slayer mythos, even though Fray's disconnection from it was an actual plot point.
I also thought Joss's sci fi world-building was pretty crap, frankly, and unfortunately Firefly only confirmed me in that view. I've managed to watch about half the episodes, but find them so irritating for so many reasons that I've never been able to get through all of them. Yet that show was Joss's big love.
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Date: 2009-01-14 07:46 pm (UTC)I also thought Joss's sci fi world-building was pretty crap, frankly, and unfortunately Firefly only confirmed me in that view. I've managed to watch about half the episodes, but find them so irritating for so many reasons that I've never been able to get through all of them. Yet that show was Joss's big love.
I hope that answers your question?