5 Reasons (In His Own Words) Why We Love Joss Whedon

4. "My visions of the future are always pretty much standard issue. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer, and there are flying cars." - (Fray foreward) As a creator of fantastical worlds filled with blood sucking vampires and brainwashing conglomerates, it's no surprising that Joss Whedon has given us a few examples of what the future will look like. Of his three rather bleak examples, there are two which follow this pretty simple vision perfectly. It's just a shame that Dollhouse's Epitaphs don't have flying cars. In the graphic novel Fray, set 200 hundred years into Buffy's future, there are two separate societies living in Haddyn (known previously to you and me as Manhattan), the rich living it up in their penthouse suites, and the poor slumming it in their shacks on the ground. Not completely separated however, thanks to Melaka Fray herself, future slayer and Robin Hood-esque thief who uses her earnings to help pay for her poor young friend's much needed medicine. The second of course, is the 'verse of Firefly/Serenity. Taking it one step further, those living the high life of the alliance are on completely separate planets to the poor pioneers out on the raggedy edge. And this is where Whedon's genius comes in to play. He doesn't offer us the escapism of Star Wars' galaxy far far away, or Star Trek's utopia that we should aspire to. Vampire's or not, Whedon gives us a truly believable representation of what life today could actually lead to. By looking around us and seeing the rise of banking scandals, tax dodging, and food banks, it's hard not to imagine the divide between rich and poor getting wider. That, and people are actually building flying cars.