But the Scoobies are adult characters. They're approaching their mid-twenties.
But they're written as teenagers. And, according to Joss, it's "comic time" now - which means they'll stay this way forever.
Which, I fear, is what he wanted, and is what explains why most of the characterization of Scoobs in Season 7 were... um... far less than they could have been. Joss doesn't want these characters to grow up. I'm not sure he can even deal envision how to write them with any level of tru maturity. That's why the sort of stalled out at a certain point emotionally, and why --as the actors clearly became older-- the immaturity of their actions became less and less understandable.
He probably would have liked these characters to remain 17 forever, which -- emotionally -- they largely have. He may be able to get away with that in comics, but on film it just led to having characters that seemed emotionally stunted.
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Date: 2007-06-09 06:17 pm (UTC)But they're written as teenagers. And, according to Joss, it's "comic time" now - which means they'll stay this way forever.
Which, I fear, is what he wanted, and is what explains why most of the characterization of Scoobs in Season 7 were... um... far less than they could have been. Joss doesn't want these characters to grow up. I'm not sure he can even deal envision how to write them with any level of tru maturity. That's why the sort of stalled out at a certain point emotionally, and why --as the actors clearly became older-- the immaturity of their actions became less and less understandable.
He probably would have liked these characters to remain 17 forever, which -- emotionally -- they largely have. He may be able to get away with that in comics, but on film it just led to having characters that seemed emotionally stunted.