Super unpopular opinion incoming:

I really don't get the Joss Whedon worship. Granted, I never watched Buffy and I feel that perhaps a lot of women my age have an emotional response to all Whedon's work because they were into Buffy at an influential age and she's a strong woman character, so maybe I just missed the boat. It always seemed kind of cliché and cheesy and hacky to me, much like The Avengers surely will be, and much like the paragraph quoted above. Like, shooting a cable holding barrels aloft? Come on.

However, I've seen Firefly, and I think it's an ok work of science fantasy, and I'm sure if it were allowed to continue and have more time to fill in the massive gaps and inconsistencies (and racist undertones, discussed at length on Jezebel and elsewhere), it would have been redeemed in my mind.

But there's also Alien Resurrection, a superfluous stain on what was otherwise a fabulous trilogy. Or, yes, Dr. Horrible, which I feel people only find funny because they are already predisposed to loving anything with Nathan Fillion or NPH (also the reason I believe HIMYM has an audience). It's like a very long unfunny in-joke that people only keep repeating because it was started by the popular kid. Or something.

I'm a huge horror buff, so I'm very curious to see how Cabin in the Woods will be. There's very little under the sun that hasn't been done in horror, and based on just the trailers, it looks like an amalgamation of a few common tropes (e.g. the 'meta'/self-referential horror movie).

Anyone with me out there who eyerolls at these threads?