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Also on a meta level, this was a TV show aimed at teens. The network censors would never allow the heroes to use guns for that timeslot/age group. The writers had to come up with some plot excuse to ensure said main characters could never get guns.

I don't disagree, let me note that I routinely post against my own opinion if the evidence isn't there. Those facts are true and damning. The thing is that those facts, such as ignoring her agent or calling her fat weren't in the article I was critiquing. Also Hollywood fat is everybody...

Ya know, I'm no fan of Whedon's but that's extremely weak and looks like a hit piece to me. Abused his power? How? Weaponized your womanhood against you? What does that even mean? What are the specifics? Oh, he asked a pregnant actress if she was going to keep the child or not? That's...

Part of this is the legacy of it being a pre-Whedon movie. In the original movie there was one slayer, one watcher (immortal and directly assigned by heaven), and one master vampire and that was it. It make more sense then than when there was a Hellsphincter spewing demons all over the...

That doesn't work in the context of a teen angst/drama show though. Teenagers frequently feel like adults don't understand them and this is reflected in their shows, where adults can't help with their problems. This makes a lot less sense in the context of vampires murdering people compared...

I don't know if it's the case in this specific instance, but often the answer to that is Network Censors, especially when they're allowed any weapon except a gun. I recall reading the memoirs of a person who worked on Planet of the Apes. The censors wouldn't let the apes have guns, because...