Buffy Season 8
Nov. 27th, 2011 04:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
estepheiaI just read a summary of the Giles storyline in the S8 comics. WTF? Is Joss Whedon nuts????
I always meant to read the comics and therefore avoided spoilers. I stopped reading after Ethan's death (and set about resurrecting him in fanfiction) - and now I'm pretty sure I'll never read the rest.
ETA: Sorry, I'd use spoiler cuts, but somehow I never get them to work properly. I used to have a posting client, that was really useful, but these days I type my entries into my browser and the cut thingie never works like I expect. I suppose I should download a client. Which one do you use?
I always meant to read the comics and therefore avoided spoilers. I stopped reading after Ethan's death (and set about resurrecting him in fanfiction) - and now I'm pretty sure I'll never read the rest.
ETA: Sorry, I'd use spoiler cuts, but somehow I never get them to work properly. I used to have a posting client, that was really useful, but these days I type my entries into my browser and the cut thingie never works like I expect. I suppose I should download a client. Which one do you use?
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Date: 2011-11-27 03:56 pm (UTC)Especially as he's since been reported as saying he thought Giles wasn't relevant to Buffys life anymore, but by killing him off he was made relevant again. *eye roll*
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Date: 2011-11-27 04:13 pm (UTC)Any other deaths (or survivals) I should know about? Is it true that Wes survived NFA?
Rubbish, a good writer would be able to come up with interesting storylines for Giles - if he/she wanted to. I know it's all about Buffy (and the metaphor), that's the problem. That's also what went wrong with S7. The characters had evolved beyond their role in Buffy's life - but the storyline was not designed to give them their own spotlight.
Seriously? I think Joss lost the connection to his characters. He no longer cares for them like he used to.
Maybe it's because there is a decided difference between being fully immersed in a show and fast-writing screenplays for it with a bunch of other authors and occasionally working on a comic book.
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Date: 2011-11-27 04:45 pm (UTC)Sadly no. He just briefly came back as a ghost. :(
"Seriously? I think Joss lost the connection to his characters. He no longer cares for them like he used to."
Yeah, sadly I think you're right there.
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Date: 2011-11-27 05:33 pm (UTC)Given how he wrote the other characters in the comics and how he'd written Giles up to that point, killing him just might have been a mercy. Real!Giles would have killed himself after that evolution garbage.
Horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Date: 2011-11-27 05:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-11-27 06:22 pm (UTC)Maybe he should have just left his verse alone. I was happy the way it ended after NFA - not over the moon, because of dead Anya and Wes, but happy enough. There was plenty of room for fanfic....
*sigh*
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Date: 2011-11-27 05:09 pm (UTC)WTF? Is Joss Whedon nuts????
Yes.
(I can link you to copious amounts of posts on the subject! Some of them very silly. Oh and genuine meta too.)
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Date: 2011-11-27 06:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-11-27 06:27 pm (UTC)