They did do some answering (in Serenity), but I was not terribly thrilled with the degree to which Whedon, shall we say, ‘terminated’ the series. You give me a Spock who gives his life to save the crew and I’m okay with it, but you give me a guy who looks like he’s escaped and then snatch back that escape… grrrr.

And I REALLY want to know what’s up with Shepherd Book (without having to buy the comic book)!

I generally think that Whedon comes up with great ideas, but they turn bad when he moves onto the next thing. Examplse, Season 7 of Buffy,Season 4 of Angel. I did not like Serenity. I hated the Reivers’ backstory, and thought that they oversexed Kaylee and that her characterization in the movie was out of character. I have refused to buy the volume of Runaways that he wrote because he got busy/lost interest and it dragged on for almost a year before the last issue came out. Dollhouse –ay yi yi. I love the actors he choses to work with. He has an great eye for chemistry and quality and really brings out great work. But, the actual work? On thin ice for me.

I’m all for creative casting. Donald Glover as Spiderman? Yeah! Angelina in a role originally meant for Tom Cruise? Cool. But casting ubiquitous white people in roles that make more sense for non-whites is at least silly and short sighted, if not offensive. Le sigh, indeed.

I also have noted the lack of Chinese or other Asian actors in the show. It reminds me of how the movie The Last Airbender didn’t originally put any Asian actors in the 4 lead roles (Dev Patel was later cast as Zuko after someone bowed out).