Buffy Season 8

[estepheia]

I 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?

Comments

[estepheia.livejournal.com]

It's funny how Joss always kills off the characters I like best (with maybe the exception of Book)....
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.

[sueworld2003.livejournal.com]

"Is it true that Wes survived NFA?:

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.

[infinitewhale.livejournal.com]

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.

[sueworld2003.livejournal.com]

Oh christ yes! What were they thinking?!!

[estepheia.livejournal.com]

Ho boy, that sounds.... off-putting.

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*