{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Joss Whedon sucks. He and everything he touches has whiny, self-important theatre kid energy. His cancellation is good.", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/642875568897064960/", "html": "<div class=\"question\"><strong>Anonymous</strong> asked: <p>Joss Whedon sucks. He and everything he touches has whiny, self-important theatre kid energy. His cancellation is good.</p></div>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"/post/642874104584732672/\">kontextmaschine</a>:</p>\n\n<blockquote><p>Yeah admittedly a good deal of &ldquo;his&rdquo; good stuff is really Nixon, Minear, or Espenson</p></blockquote><p><blockquote class=\"npf_indented\"><p><a class=\"tumblelog\" href=\"https://tmblr.co/MgnwjBW6VfT6IX2LwMnHmAw\" target=\"_blank\">@quoms</a> <b>said:</b> he&rsquo;s good at the thing he&rsquo;s always been good at, which is being a script doctor (especially scripts with ensemble casts and lots of character beats). everything else he&rsquo;s credited with is either just decent or someone else&rsquo;s work</p></blockquote><p>You ever think about how &ldquo;owes much of his position to the ability to navigate intelligentsia trends and institutions he learned from his screenwriter dad&rdquo; is something he shares with Matt Yglesias?</p></p>"}