Joss Whedon

I love Joss Whedon, which is one of the many reasons I am looking forward to The Avengers movie slated to hit theatres sometime in 2012.  He is a fantastic writer/director who has a special talent for creating character driven movies and TV shows with upbeat witty dialogue.  One day, if I ever make it to Comic-Con, I will go in the hopes of meeting him.

Two of my favourite TV shows of all time?  Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Firefly.  I have watched both shows many times, and I will likely watch them many more, they are just that good.  (Of course watching all 7 seasons of Buffy is slightly more epic than watching the 1 season of Firefly and the concluding movie Serenity - why oh why did they have to cancel Firefly?!)

Here are some of my favourite quotes, although there are many, many more where these came from:

Xander: Then go! I'm not stopping you!
Cordelia: I bet you wouldn't. I bet you'd let a girl go off to her doom all by herself!
Xander: Not just any girl. You're special.

Snyder: "Some things I can just smell, it's like a sixth sense"
Giles: "Actually that would be one of the five"

Xander: Are we over-reacting? He's in a computer, what can he do?
Buffy: You mean besides convince a perfectly nice kid to try and kill me? I don't know. How about mess up all the medical equipment in the world?
Giles: Randomize traffic signals.
Buffy: Access launch codes for our nuclear missiles.
Giles: Destroy the world's economy.
Buffy: I think I pretty much capped it with that nuclear missile thing.
Giles: Right, yours was best.

Wash: "Psychic, though? That sounds like something out of science fiction."
Zoe: "We live in a spaceship, dear."

River: Jayne is a girl's name
Jayne: Well I ain't a girl! I'll show you for good and all I got MAN parts!
Simon: I'm trying to think how you could be more crass...no, nothing's coming to mind.

Mal: "Mercy is the mark of a great man." [stabs Atherton Wing]
Mal: "Guess I'm just a good man." [stabs Atherton Wing]
Mal: "Well, I'm all right."