There's always a secret conspiring organization in his stories, it must all be linked!

Or maybe, just maybe, he's always slapping the same synopsis on all the stuff he's paid to write...

(No, I'm not really a Whedon fan.)

I can't help but wonder if the character's name Josh Wheaton is some sort of sad little dig at Joss Whedon since he's an atheist.

was the writer of this movie someone who got rejected by Whedon or something?

I was thinking, "When did Joss Whedon start singing prog metal?"

@MilkmanDan - Well if the source material doesn't have any further development or interaction with characters other than descriptions of food from that fatass than there's no real point. The thing is there wasn't much going on in The Wire either, it would build slowly and then there would be a payoff.

Well Martins builds slowly and in a million different directions and the payoff is destroying those directions and seeing what happens? You're right then that's not a fault of the show that's a fault of the source material it draws from.

Frankly I think this would've been better if they would've waited for all the books and then instead of doing 1 book per season find a better way to structure the story around Television. It's just different.

Also it would be better if Joss Whedon did it but not everyone can be him.

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A new series from Joss Whedon, eh? Well, I look forward to it until it's eventual and premature cancellation

And the Sci-Fi convention episode from this year. I think it was episode 6. He even says "shiny" and names a number of sci-fi shows and "that Joss Whedon show".

I already know after watching Chomsky and reading about 30 of his books that this is going to be SUPER Repetitive. It's sad because it's not his fault that he HAS to be super repetitive. Even the people who consider him one of the greatest academics ever don't read his works or pay attention to what he says.

After studying Chomsky for the past decade, I have great respect for him, and very little respect for those who either petulantly criticize or ignorantly quote him.

I mean we live in a world where people analyze Joss Whedons works at Universities with greater deference and specificity (outside of Linguistics of course).

Never got the appeal of Joss Whedon. It must be a 90's generational thing. While I really don't care for musicals, I did like Dr. Horrible, so I guess there's something to be said about that.

But yes, I'll echo Sniper007. Want to see the best version? Stick with Branagh.

Yuck yuck yuck yuck yuck. That trailer gave me serious douche-chills. If it wasn't for Joss Whedon's name attached to this.... it probably wouldn't see the light of day.

First Whedon creation I'm not so sure about... since Buffy.

It's like a reunion for Joss Whedon's favourite actors!

As with all things, it's not necessarily a law change that need to happen. Laws don't drive the zeitgeist, the zeitgeist drive laws (or should).

People need to be dissuaded from wanting to have guns. In Europe, people don't really want a gun, and don't even see a need for one. Sure, there are hunters and they have guns, and sure you can get one if you're in a dangerous area with bears and shit, but actually getting a gun is when you're hunted by mafia or something like that and you're desperate. Why would you ever want to walk around with a gun? I don't really get it.

Perhaps people have a fantasy about being a hero, where they shoot the bad guy. Everyone has that as a kid; most kids also grow up.

There's something deeply satisfying about firing a gun - power at your fingertips. Control. Maybe it's a control thing. People don't like to be out of control, with a gun they always have something to fall back on to control the situation.

Maybe it's a macho thing, although women carry guns too. I don't know the statistic of it, but I would imagine more men do than women. Men are intrinsically destructive while women are creative - it's our nature. We men beat up our rivals to gain access to that sweetest fruit of all: peach. Perhaps it's an extension of power; an penis extension. Don't pull the trigger, squeeze it tenderly. You are the gun; look down the aim at your target and fire.

Maybe there's some brain vs brawn in it. I would wager good money that as intelligence goes up, gun ownership goes down. No statistics to back it up, but I'd love to see if it's true. Brains are taking over everything - it's the decade of the Nerd. Joss Whedon and JJ Abrams could get all the girls and gets all the admiration in the big world, while Dick McKickaball failed to make the team and married Candace the exotic dancer his friends hired for him on his 21st birthday. But at least he could shoot JJ Abrams in the face with his 4½ inch death stick.

Society doesn't really gain much from guns does it?

It has its own market and thus gets people to move money around with someone around to skim the top. dft said this in point 2 as well. This could be done for worse stuff though - snuff porn has a market; heroin has a market.

Mutually Assured Destruction is always a fun acronym to throw around. If everyone does eye for an eye, the world will go blind, I've heard somewhere. Probably a shitty western or something.

Feelings of security? If I have a gun, do I feel safer from the people around me that may or may not also have guns? I would feel safer in my home, I think. If I feared home invasions. Home invasions are a weird thing; very rare in europe to the best of my knowledge, even though we don't have guns. Seems like something that would only happen if there was an enormous disparity between poor and rich, making the poor desperate (and lazy) enough to want to do a home invasion. If Brian the Aryan Man-God makes 10 million billion $$ a year, and Rommel the Dirty Mexican doesn't get anything because he has to pay child support off his social security and also cover his meth addication, then the chance of Rommel doing a home invasion is greater than if Rommel makes half of what Brian does. Maybe we need to raise the floor, instead of raising the ceiling on the extrema of wealth to lose the desire of guns.

Maybe it's all of the factors at once, and we have someone like the NRA pushing everyone to want all of them. I want security. I'm afraid. I have a small dick. Home invasions happen all the time. Schools get shot by crazies, I need to defend myself.

Bang!

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

There... the demons went away. Guns are your friends.