>Joss Whedon admits diversity was 'lacking' on Buffy The Vampire Slayer
>Buffy The Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon has admitted he feels he did not do enough to represent diversity on the show.
>Speaking on the cult teen series' 20th anniversary, he said he "missed some of the point" when it came to hiring cast and crew of mixed genders and ethnic backgrounds.
>He told The Hollywood Reporter: "I was definitely unaware of how things affected people, how representation was lacking.
>"I didn't help out. I didn't make a point of hiring female directors, I didn't make a point of hiring people of colour, I didn't think it through past where I had gotten."
>Describing himself as "of a certain era," he added that he "didn't have the bandwidth to care about humans" at the time
It's weird how much I detest a man who's made so many shows I've enjoyed.
Justin Reyes
I agree they would make Giles, her mentor/father figure black in 2017. Especially since he is British and any British character with an English accent is played by a black person in the current year.
I really feel like one hundred percent Spike would be black as well though since he is a love interest.
Joseph Perez
>I didn't make a point of hiring people of colour
Oh no, he didn't force diversity! What a monster!!!
Julian Peterson
Same On one side he's a genius. On the other, a nu-male beta cunt and an SJW hack that gives you more that one reason to hate him. Agree, Spike is too Aryan to be a love interest, that shit is just wrong today.
Samuel Bennett
my reasoning as well
Kevin Garcia
It was 1997, the country was still overwhelmingly white. Basically where the UK is in 2017.
It's not that common to like somebody's work but hate their politics. Think of all the Jews who liked Braveheart.
Camden Gutierrez
Idris Elba as buffy
Ethan Hernandez
He better apologize for the lack of diversity in his Much Ado About Nothing! But since that was shot in his actual home he was probably didn't want to risk letting blacks in.
Lincoln Wood
>he added that he "didn't have the bandwidth to care about humans" at the time That explains why he blamed Alien Resurrection on everyone but himself.
Liam Long
>people of colour
William Bell
The show would've tanked if it was more diverse or anywhere close to majority diverse.
Hudson Parker
I mean, what's he supposed to say in Current Year, "White was right?"
Caleb Stewart
There is no way in hell they would let a white Buffy have THREE white love interests over the course of the show. In 2017, not a fucking chance. No way. That would practically be a hate crime at this point.
Angel they would keep white as the bait and switch and quickly kill him off again in the season one finale. Riley would be latino. Spike would be black.
Carson Hughes
Ah nice, Riley the immigrant who signed up for the service as a way of becoming a US citizen. Hard to pick Spike or Angel being black since they both have abusive streaks and came close to raping her. There would have to be a lot of changes.
Ian Russell
So which cast members are disposable enough to be replaced by Tyrone and Inshallahia?
Aaron Sullivan
Angel would be the white abuser/rapist setting her up to fall into the arms of good guy Latino Riley and finally into the arms of good guy Black Spike.
Willow would straight be a Muslim with a headscarf 2017. Not even joking. Not a fucking doubt in my mind.
Sebastian Clark
>Joss Whedon says Buffy cast "should have been more diverse" What this means is >Joss Wheon says Buffy cast "would have been more diverse if it was made today because I am a man with no vision and just a victim of the cultural trends"
Jayden Myers
>Practically invents the BLACK'D meme on popular tv shows just to spite his audience and be a hack that cannot even get his own storytelling right. >Gives the world the most iconic stromk womyn of the time that for some reason everyone seems to forget existed before the great era of SJWing >Still cries about not being SJW enough Pottery
Alexander Bailey
How much has he cried this year?
Connor Wood
So cucked it hurt
Thomas Miller
What about Tara? Would they go the lesbian/LGBT muslim angle or would they be afraid of offending them?
David Ortiz
Oh fuck off Joss. Jesus christ, this guy has been nothing but dull since he drank the SJW Kool Aid.
Luis Howard
>having too many white people is bad
this is getting ridiculous
Landon Miller
I think they would go Muslim/Lesbian route to say they are pushing boundaries.
At one point they would have conflict with her strict Muslim family when her dad and brothers show up to put and end to this sorcery and homosexuality nonsense but the diverse-Scooby's would save her showing that #NotAllMuslims are anti-homosexuality and Islam is actually a religion of tolerance, acceptance, and peace. Buffy would probably have a "People like you give other Muslims a bad name!" line, etc.
Asher Campbell
Three of the guys were push overs. Xander, Seth Green and old man were lamewads. Spike and Angel were the only dudes who got to be men. But they were just sexy vampire for girls to flick it to. Plus they were told to fuck off and get their own show.
Landon Foster
Jesus I can actually see this happening.
Camden Allen
People only liked his shows because of the waifus. Nobody gives a shit about his opinions
>last thing we heard from joss is the angry screeching of sjws about the age of ultron movie.
>joss whedon is coming back in a seriously apologetic way guys.
Nathaniel Cox
With...Reshoots on Justice league and Batgirl. BATGIRL?!
David Rivera
its because most of his own works have been a group effort, some of them with a company he founded and people he hired specifically for the purpose to make things he creates better than he would on his own
Ian Rodriguez
You know
Has anyone asked what they mean by diversity
Noah Davis
The West was a lot whiter back then
Charles Myers
Spike was a bitch
Jayden Harris
...
Anthony Turner
Neo-leftism is a mental illness
Aaron Long
Reciting the shahada would be more effective against vampires than limp, Caucasian, crucifixes.
Luis Allen
The marxists want to pretend that the non-whites were always here When in reality it started in the lifetimes of our parents
Every single one of these people view their work/art as a vehicle for pushing the marxist agenda
Luke Collins
I live in a mixed area, but friend-circles are still VERY heavily tilted to one race. Go to some of the big university cities, the students are from all over the fucking world, but they still largely group by race. Diverse casts are fucking fantasy, dragons are more plausible.
Hudson Cook
>that uneven donation at the end
did he empty his bank account?
Parker Lopez
It would be;
>Angel - stays white, hard to do Irish backstory without it. A little more menacing and little more rapey even when in non-Angelus mode. >Willow - Muslim with headscarf, strict Saudi Arabian family, proud lesbian >Xander - Latino, but 'white' latino >Giles - Black. Reserved and educated. Probably unironically would literally be Elba >Cordilia - stays white, even more bitchy, self-centered and dumb >Riley - Latino, but 'dark' latino. Signed up with the military for citizenship, brave and valiant >Dawn - stays white >Tara - stays white, slightly fatter >Anya - stays white >Oz - stays white, a little more threatening and feral >Faith - I would like to say they make her Asian because I think that would work great and she would be hot, but no, she would be latino, her crime backstory would have been because of racism against latinos by white police who framed her >Spike - Black, no longer English backstory. Grew up in Africa. Was sold into the slave trade by British slavers and ended up getting bit and turned by Angelus when he massacred the crew of the ship. Later was trapped into slavery again and traveled over to America in chains in the belly of a slave-ship being whipped and jeered at by brutish white slavers. Forced to work on plantation at night by a dark-arts using slave owner who knows he is a vampire. Beaten and tortured by cruel white plantation owners. Escapes a few times but is caught and lynched by vicious white Americans but doesn't die due. Tries to help fellow slaves numerous times but they are always killed by laughing whites. Ends up running the underground railroad at night, until cruel whites kill the people he was protecting. Despite all this tries to forgive whites and is present throughout american history at most of the big civil rights moments and marches, helps MLK, helps Malcom X, marches in Selma, ends up in Sunnydale organizing a BLM march and meets Buffy and falls in love with her after stopping Angel from raping her
Oliver Johnson
Literally yes, he even admitted he did.
Elijah Carter
I didn't think I could love the don more.
Isaiah Campbell
Less white people
Grayson Williams
All politics aside, it's pretty shitty to say you'd have dropped the people you worked with to fulfill a stupid fucking quota, like none of those people meant shit to you.
David Evans
What about Angel? That was pretty diverse. There was a black guy in it.
Dominic Sullivan
Why couldn't he just say that that shit wasn't in the public discourse back then? Every second show in 1999 had almost no black people. He was doing well for women, he should stop being a cuck and stop apologising for not being even more progressive than he already was.
Lucas Clark
Didn't Tara basically have that episode already, with a domestic violence metaphor?
Landon Baker
Yeah, that's where I stole it from.
I mean, excuse me, I used it as a homage to the previous show.
Kayden Green
Nice to see its been updated from its previous, privileged depiction user. White people don't have problems.
Chase Torres
Fuck off reddit
Thomas Watson
Yeah it needed an update for 2017.
We don't dwell on "White People Problems" these days unless it's an episode where a white person has trouble figuring out how to spend all the royalties he gets from ripping off the genius scientific innovations of non-white civilizations that whites stole, or perhaps an episode where a white is driving his Mercedes SUV back to his mansion but has a crisis because he sees a black and Latino on the road but only has time to run over one and so is faced with a difficult choice.
Brandon Rogers
Spike wouldnt be black. Zander would be.
Jack Moore
There is no way a white heroine has three white love interests over the course of a series. Not in the year or our lord 2017. If you make Spike white then that means even if you make Riley black or latino then two out of her three romances would be with white males since Angel is white. That is absolutely haram. It's one out of three tops, even one is pushing it.
Christian Wood
the fuck is this in some JL trailer
i haven't seen any of the JL trailers or teasures
goddamn they fucked up batfleck
Daniel Rogers
Jesus so we're going for reverse outrage now about shows made 20 years ago?
Isaiah Sanders
>Cuck Whedon forgets that he wrote a Jamaican Vampire Slayer in the second season Surprise surprise
Asher Roberts
The entire SJW industry is based on reverse outrage.
Aiden Russell
jesus christ, this. Every tweet by this fatass makes firefly retroactively worse.
Aaron Miller
spike and angel would be black as they both fucked buffy
Thomas Morris
Underrated boast
Ryder Robinson
>>Angel - stays white, hard to do Irish backstory without it
lol?
Sebastian Ross
My favorite black tv actress desu. She's a qt.
(unironically watched all these shows she's been in)
Dylan Martin
>mfw I add more diversity with a black Mormon, a well spoken conservative with a stable family, and a 10/10 muslim lesbian mechanic who wears Warehouse 13 goggles, but I riddle her plots with subtle digs at everything she does
Julian Richardson
Hes not a genius, he writes and directs disposable pop art that no one will remember in a few decades. I met him in Chicago in 2001 he's a cunt in person
Jonathan Nguyen
I already loved the shows of Joss Whedon for their feminist themes and deep plots.
Ryder Flores
I like to see him say which of his actors he would've cut in favor of non-whites. Show some backbone for once.
Aiden Sullivan
...
Xavier Brooks
Like how? Interesting cunt or jejune?
Evan Williams
he acted exactly How he looks
Sebastian Martin
The dates aren't in order.
Jaxson Morales
uderrated
Ayden Hall
>how representation was lacking except it wasn't back then
no one gave a shit and SJW and the likes didn't even exist. How fucking dumb can a person get
Carson Taylor
They turn on you instantly.
Jordan Sanchez
yeah they're all jewish puppets ;___;
Aaron Russell
always haha, they always turn on the people they trick into working for their ideals
Parker Edwards
this is why buffy is good though...
Justin Perez
fpbp
Zachary King
>ywn see SMG and Hannigan do blacked.com while in their prime
Anthony Lopez
I'm sick of the diversity meme. Not every local highschool has a perfect mix of blacks, whites, asians, indians, native americans, pacific islanders, australian aborigines, peruvian natives, and ainu from northern japan. Some schools are 99% white. Some are 85% black. It happens. Deal with it.
Connor Morris
mate, anthony head was great, the show really suffers from his absence in the later seasons.
Isaac Murphy
>Describing himself as "of a certain era,"
The amazing era between racism against black and racism against whites, when everything was truly equal. But, no, thats racist, it's much better to hire people because of their color/sex instead of their talent. True equality is being biased against white males!
Dylan Lewis
Yeah, it was a noticeable drop after he left. Did set up a great return scene to fight Dark Phoenix Willow though.
Justin Howard
Of course he fucking said that, is anyone surprised?
Luis Lewis
>they would probably have Boyega play wesley triggered
Angel Lee
Sensitive Joss Whedon
Nathan Fisher
Damn, that version of Xander would be fucking Buffy every single episode, you just know
Aaron Rivera
He's been getting worse over the years.
Dominic Long
>David Boreanaz Italians aren't white
Gabriel Collins
make the mc black with a meme afro then you'll have true diversity™
Lucas Rogers
If they made her black they would have to make Spike and Angel white again.
Isaac Cox
>"didnt have the bandwidth to care about humans"
that sounds like something bender would say. Is Joss really a robot out to take his revenge for being redundant via shit movies and tv?
Nolan Perez
hes a sjw-bot
David Lee
To be fair, for its So Cal setting, Sunnydale should have had more Hispanics.
Dylan Powell
hot damn black dont crack
Jack Russell
>Tara - stays white, slightly fatter they'll go full health at every size and make her legit fat or even obese and also might make her convert if willow is a muslim? so an obese lesbian muslim witch
Jason James
Honestly, this. Blacks hang with blacks, whites with whites, latinos with latinos.
Sure, there is some intermingling, but as far as BFFs go, as Buffy, Will and Xander were supposed to be, they'd all be white or not. Since Buffy is a subversion of the pretty middle class white teen that dies in an alley trope, you can't make her anything else and retain the point.