{"id":2206,"date":"2017-07-08T11:28:27","date_gmt":"2017-07-08T19:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sacollins.com\/blog\/?p=2206"},"modified":"2017-07-10T22:52:12","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T06:52:12","slug":"its-all-joss-whedons-fault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sacollins.com\/blog-wp\/?p=2206","title":{"rendered":"It’s All Joss Whedon’s Fault …"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s All Joss Whedon’s Fault …<\/span><\/h1>\n

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Okay, maybe not totally. I can’t put the blame on someone because they created something they were passionate about. But what art does, if it’s at its best, is to inspire other artists to create. So, in that case, it is totally Whedon’s fault. He inspired me. His storytelling for Buffy the Vampire Slayer<\/em> (yes, I even endured the terrible<\/em> movie version with Kristy Swanson and Rutger Hauer\u00a0 \u2013 in the theater, as a PAYING customer <\/em>no less \u2013 so I get extra-slayer points for being a supporter from the very beginning). I didn’t buy the movie version. Not when it’s available to rent. I’m not that much of a freaky fan.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Whedon at Comic Con one year. I’d always heard he moves around in a constant state of exhaustion – the man works so hard all the time – and my meeting with him it was evident that even within the marketing hoopla of what he was there to promote that I was very judicious with my fawning over having a moment with him. I didn’t even bother him with a photo op because he just looked so damned tired \u2013 though it didn’t stop my daughter and mother from having me snap a picture of them. I’ve got it somewhere in my photo library … somewhere. Even my granddaughter made the rounds at the Con taking pictures with various Buffy<\/em> actors when she had barely achieved her first year of life (she has the distinction of being Jonathan Strong’s very first baby pic – or so he told us as he took brief possession of my granddaughter so my daughter could snap the coveted pic of them). I already knew the do’s and don’ts of meeting him … chief amongst them was to NEVER mention his brilliant work for the movie Waterworld. <\/em>That was a sure-fire way to make him walk away from you with a look that would melt you on the spot. We promptly took my daughter\/mother’s pic with him and thanked him for his time and spared a thought to let that man rest soon.<\/span><\/p>\n

He really did look exhausted. I felt enormously guilty for taking any of his time but don’t regret it happening at all.<\/span><\/p>\n