(CNN)It's almost cliché to call Joss Whedon a polarizing figure, because you don't get to be an auteur of billion-dollar blockbuster epics without breaking eggs, and occasionally hearts. He's one of those rare creators with a fan base so cultishly devoted that they'll follow him from platform to platform and genre to genre without pause, embracing projects simply because his name's above the title (yes, he did direct a film adaptation of Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing" -- why do you ask?). Jeff Yang Yet he also has more than his share of detractors, who call his writing heavy on snark and short on substance, his plotlines thick with tropes recycled from project to project, his...
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