Joss on Buffy and Iraq
Apr. 22nd, 2003 11:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sombrefanA couple of times recently I made the comparison between BtVs and the situation in Iraq and now Joss has responsed (not to me obviously).
http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/73951.htm
Meanwhile, as the series has been building to a violent, all-or-nothing war between spirit forces at the end, some critics have pointed out that the characters on "Buffy" are going through much the same turmoil people in the real world have experienced with war with Iraq.
"The last thing I ever wanted in the world was for any of 'Buffy's' rhetoric to be compared to anything [President Bush] was saying," Whedon says.
"Yet he goes to war and ostensibly we have a war on 'Buffy,' " Whedon said.
"So I think it was very much a concern to the writers and myself that we try and stress the pain and the uncertainty and the emotion of it as opposed to the gung-ho 'let's-go-get-'em' of it.
"None of us advocates the idea of war and I certainly didn't support the decision to go in during this particular action [in Iraq]," he said.
http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/73951.htm
Meanwhile, as the series has been building to a violent, all-or-nothing war between spirit forces at the end, some critics have pointed out that the characters on "Buffy" are going through much the same turmoil people in the real world have experienced with war with Iraq.
"The last thing I ever wanted in the world was for any of 'Buffy's' rhetoric to be compared to anything [President Bush] was saying," Whedon says.
"Yet he goes to war and ostensibly we have a war on 'Buffy,' " Whedon said.
"So I think it was very much a concern to the writers and myself that we try and stress the pain and the uncertainty and the emotion of it as opposed to the gung-ho 'let's-go-get-'em' of it.
"None of us advocates the idea of war and I certainly didn't support the decision to go in during this particular action [in Iraq]," he said.
