last whedon-esque post for a while, i promise.

One last post on Whedon, and look, it has Neil Gaiman in it! If you're a fan of one or the other or both, you should read this interview they did with Time. It was a phone interview, but it was more like a conversation they had with a fan of them both than an interview about 'catching up with my fantasy universes so you can watch my new movie.' I read so many of those in the last couple weeks before Serenity came out, but this one is different. I mean, they still have all that stuff, but it was quick and not the meat of the interview. This is more talking about the way their work has evolved from geek culture to mainstream, and how Hollywood in general has done the same for things like Spiderman and Lord of the Rings. The interviewer isn't the typical interviewer, either. He seems to really be a fan, instead of just being assigned this article to help promote two movies that looked poised to become cult hits. Ironically, or not, the article is a web exclusive, where the geeks gather, I suppose... Anyway, go read it!

edit: This inevitably happens whenever I promise something. Something else comes around to make me want to go back on it. Anyway, Dom from Megatokyo went in cold to watch the movie and loved it. Granted, it's his kind of thing and he only held out to spite Joss Whedon, but still, it is in fact possible to watch the movie without watching the entire seires first. (You'll have to scroll down a bit for his reactions, the rant on the right.)