Thread by @TAJackson20

@ktherese2 I don't even know where to start on this. Really wish I was home rn so I could type it all up. But, long story short:
1. He brought his capeshit story techniques into TV drama which laid the foundations for the MCUing of visual media.
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@ktherese2 (compare it to other similar-genre shows from before Buffy like Xena and you'll see what I mean)
2. He gave ua the "snarky" and "quipster" dialogue that has plagued us ever since. It became impossible to take any situation seriously, & eventually studios stopped even trying
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@ktherese2 If you're wondering why, e.g. Nebula's abusive parent backstory in Guardians of the Galaxy has to be immediately followed by an "irreverent sarcastic remark™," its bc otherwise we'd be in danger of feeling something "heavy," and Whedonesque storytelling despises this.
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@ktherese2 3. Joss Whedon was the guy who popularized the degenerated meaning of "deconstruction" in fiction, which was dumbed down to mean playing with genre cliches. "What if the cheerleader killed the monster instead of the other way around?"
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@ktherese2 This autism would have consequences: TVTropes grew directly out of a Joss Whedon fansite. (Buffistas)

4. Creating "nerd culture." Joss Whedon was a capeshitter, so he brought mad scientists into his supetnatural horror-comedy show even though it didn't make sense.
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@ktherese2 And that was just the worst example. How dies a government black-ops anti- démon group make sense in a world where a demonic law firm secretly runs society? It doesn't, but Whedon ism is about mashing "cool" things together. It directly led to "narwhal Tesla bacon" bullshit.
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@ktherese2 5. Buffy had an exaggerated radlib feminist streak included in it to compensate for Joss Whedon being a male feminist sex pest. (something the radfems called on blogs at the time) He got away with it for decades, and other pervs took notice. Yet another trend that's his fault
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@ktherese2 6. On a related note, Joss Whedon had literal "Incel misogonerds" as villains in an attempt to distract you from how he was fetishizing the fuck out of his "strong female protagonists." (This production trend was what Zack Synder's "Sucker Punch" satirized. Few know this.)
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@ktherese2 7. A more parochial concern: as a fan of fantasy fiction, I must note that Whedon followed his capeshit instincts yet again and turned "magic" into what's functionally a generic superpower, which all his wretched descendants also ape.
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@ktherese2 (and also it was also a metaphor for drug abuse at the same time because Whedon is a fucking hack)

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@ktherese2 8. A snide contempt for the very fantastic the series presupposed developed as a result of all the snark. The "Judge" monster is prophesied to be immune to weapons, but it's the current year and old shitlords didn't know about guns so rocket launchers work. 😒

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@ktherese2 9. As you may have inferred from that last example, which was not at all atypical, this was the beginning of the black science man autism in mass media. It completely misunderstands everything about stories that can't be positivistically reduced to a dumbed down checklist.
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@ktherese2 This was bad enough in the genre it came from. (Scorsese was right when he compared capeshit to theme parks) but it was absolutely devestating to any show that needs symbolism in general like, idk, supernatural horror fiction or fantasy.
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@ktherese2 Did you wonder why no one every followed up the phenomenon of Lord of the Rings with more blockbuster high fantasy movies? It's no one could. Everyone writing speculative fiction had been either directly or indirectly dumbed down by Whedonism. 14/?

@ktherese2 10. The knockoffs. Oh God. Counting the first waves alone: Supernatural and Smallville exist only because of Buffy and that would be enough of a crime just by itself.

I could continue this forever, but I think 15 tweets is long enough. In summary:

https://mobile.twitter.com/TAJackson20/status/1186114185312100352

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