Joss Whedon and Conversations with Dead People - "I think he cheated"

[itsnotmymind]

 Since it came out the Joss Whedon is an unfaithful husband and an asshole boss, there has been no shortage of discussion about how this is reflect in his work, especially his most explicitly feminist work, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I've most often seen this discussed wrt Xander, and Buffy/Angel and Buffy/Spike (the latter two are a bit ironic since my understanding is Whedon didn't want vampire romances on the show)

 

But I what I haven't seen discussed is a small scene in season 7.

 

Conversations With Dead People is credited to Jane Espenson and Drew Goddard, but Joss Whedon wrote the scene between Buffy and the vampire therapist Holden. In this scene, Buffy confesses that she blames her father more than her mother for the divorce because, "I think he cheated."

 

I'm not entirely sure what to make of this, but I do look at it differently knowing it was written by a father who did, in fact, cheat.

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[rogueslayer452]

I'm not entirely sure what to make of this, but I do look at it differently knowing it was written by a father who did, in fact, cheat.

Yeah, and really it makes you look at some of the things throughout the show in general from a completely different perspective now knowing what we know. :/

[itsnotmymind]

Yes