I'm not sure about it. Of course, I can't look into Joss' head, but I've got the impression that he tried to introduce more adult stuff in later seasons, in Firefly and Serenity, in AtS - but the audience refused to accept it.
I'm a big fan of later seasons of BtVS and I find them brilliant, dark and truly adult. But I know that the majority of diehard fans dislike and despise them. Season 8 may be Joss' response to those fans, his attempt to give them what they crave. Because he needs a commercially successful venture right now.
Basically, I think the comics have an audience, and that's fine. Hope they enjoy it. But really, on just about every level, it seems completely irrelavant to myself and my view of the Whedonverse.
I like reading and discussing s8, but I'm not obsessed with comic the way I was obsessed with the show. I can't make myself really care. It's like a chess problem - good food for logical thinking but it can hardly feed the soul.
As for the letters to the editor, I just go on the assumption that controversy is 'fun' to them and making more controversy is all the more 'fun' to them and they're onlyl wating for an equally out of control response in defense of Spike.
You mean they're waiting for equally nutty pro-Spike letters? Quite probably. I wrote to them after the first hate letter. I asked them if Spike hate was DH's official partyline and wondered if other opinions are allowed on their letters page. When the second hate letter appeared I thought it was pretty straightforward answer to my question. But you may be right: they are interested only in flame messages no matter who is bashed in them.
Since I don't know any Spike fan who loves writing bashing letters, I think we're doomed to read only anti-Spike mail.
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I'm not sure about it. Of course, I can't look into Joss' head, but I've got the impression that he tried to introduce more adult stuff in later seasons, in Firefly and Serenity, in AtS - but the audience refused to accept it.
I'm a big fan of later seasons of BtVS and I find them brilliant, dark and truly adult. But I know that the majority of diehard fans dislike and despise them. Season 8 may be Joss' response to those fans, his attempt to give them what they crave. Because he needs a commercially successful venture right now.
Basically, I think the comics have an audience, and that's fine. Hope they enjoy it. But really, on just about every level, it seems completely irrelavant to myself and my view of the Whedonverse.
I like reading and discussing s8, but I'm not obsessed with comic the way I was obsessed with the show. I can't make myself really care. It's like a chess problem - good food for logical thinking but it can hardly feed the soul.
As for the letters to the editor, I just go on the assumption that controversy is 'fun' to them and making more controversy is all the more 'fun' to them and they're onlyl wating for an equally out of control response in defense of Spike.
You mean they're waiting for equally nutty pro-Spike letters? Quite probably. I wrote to them after the first hate letter. I asked them if Spike hate was DH's official partyline and wondered if other opinions are allowed on their letters page. When the second hate letter appeared I thought it was pretty straightforward answer to my question. But you may be right: they are interested only in flame messages no matter who is bashed in them.
Since I don't know any Spike fan who loves writing bashing letters, I think we're doomed to read only anti-Spike mail.