Ferretbrain Hates Joss Whedon
May. 24th, 2012 10:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skull_bearerI mean, it started off as pretty good deconstructions of the flaws in Whedon's writing (particularly the rather skeevy Dollhouse) but now their articles have gone straight into hatedom outright bashing with the last two podcasts on Cabin in the Woods and Avengers, both of which contained so much projection you could probably use the contributors for powerpoint presentations.
It's a bit annoying, I really liked Ferretbrain, but this isn't a road I want to see the site go down. While I certainly don't believe that any film is above or below criticism, there's a point where you have to draw the line because the assumptions you're making and actions you're projecting onto the film and its makers just isn't supported (ie, the idea that Cabin in the Woods was Whedon ranting against horror movie audiences, rather than a hilarious commentary on the tropes of modern horror movies).
It's also rather fascinating, in a depressing way, just how hard they're projecting. The image of critical superiority they're attributing to Whedon could be far more accurately directed (as we have no idea what Whedon was thinking when he made these films) at the Ferretbrain crew themselves.
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It's a bit annoying, I really liked Ferretbrain, but this isn't a road I want to see the site go down. While I certainly don't believe that any film is above or below criticism, there's a point where you have to draw the line because the assumptions you're making and actions you're projecting onto the film and its makers just isn't supported (ie, the idea that Cabin in the Woods was Whedon ranting against horror movie audiences, rather than a hilarious commentary on the tropes of modern horror movies).
It's also rather fascinating, in a depressing way, just how hard they're projecting. The image of critical superiority they're attributing to Whedon could be far more accurately directed (as we have no idea what Whedon was thinking when he made these films) at the Ferretbrain crew themselves.
:(