) and supposedly wasn't at all comfortable with doing any particular sexy/suggestive scenes.
So I found out another tidbit....apparently Nicholas Brendon was NOT invited to the EW BTVS anniversary photo shoot, supposedly by David Boreanaz's insistence.
Not sure what to make of that, but didn't sound good. Brendon showed up later for an individual shoot and they photoshopped him into the cast picture. Ouch. And I found out a few more details about what happened to Brendon when he was younger and how it scarred him. I won't discuss it here, but as Spartan303 said, yes it's pretty bad, nobody deserved that.
As for Whedon...his ex-wife shared a bit from a letter he wrote about how he was constantly surrounded by, and I'm paraphrasing, "Beautiful, untouchable, needy women every day" and that he felt like he was in a Greek drama afflicted by a certain incurable sickness. Yeah...never a good sign. On the other hand, not that I'm defending Whedon in any way, but to be devil's advocate, if I were in his shoes, I could see how easy it would be to start feeling that way. The difference is not letting that "sickness", however shitty it may feel sometimes, afflict you to the point you let it dictate your impulses. If the rumors are right, that's what happened with Whedon and several of his leading ladies. It would be harshly ironic in Eliza Dushku's case as she apparently was raised Mormon (I never knew this until now
I mean he should needing violence to controlling your woman. Means your weak and thus erratic and bad for business I'd drop him to.
Ehh string dudes do scummy stuff sometimes. This is why honour and chivalry is a necessity to control those impulses and direct them towards good.
"Anything but feminist" is fairly amusing. Truth is any male who espouses feminism can be safley assumed a rapist/abuser. Whedon being a scumbag was and is a firegine conclusion.
Perhaps so personally I don't see a reason to think to deeply on it. The pattern is pretty obvious and makes sense. Any "man" who would submit and bow down to any broad who's not his mom. Is clearly to much of a weak **** to get pussy so of course he'd. Think that kissing *** would increase his social status. Like most messed up crap in our culture this comes back to lack of strong g father figures. Anyway I'll cease what will invariably become a derail.
The lack of strong father figures of ANY sort in BTVS is pretty evident, though I recall this is partly because of Whedon's own personal experience growing up, which actually makes sense, experience invariably shapes what people will write about in the end, after all. That said...I would argue Giles was a vital figure on the show, he had his moments where he was shown to be the guiding paternal figure of the group, sort of the father figure to Buffy in absence of Buffy's dad Hank who barely ever got mentioned. That and his dry wit I felt was a perfect complement to Buffy's quips.
But yeah, I also suspect the lack of strong males was due to BTVS logic, strong male=evil patriarchy.
I do have a Buffy verse planned that if it works out, will go into detail as to why Hank was absent during the later years of Buffy's life. Nothing malicious or supernatural....just something personal and tragic.
