Isn't this rather a case of assuming the worst and then blaming Joss for your assumptions?
I don't blame Joss for anything. I'm sorry if it sounds like blaming - it wasn't the intention. I think Joss is doing a purely commercial project to satisfy core comics audience. And if we, fans of TV show, want to enjoy the season 8 we should suspend our disbelief and dismiss the retcons - "it's just a comic". Personally, I'm trying to tune myself in to good cheesy fun in the mold of season 1. I see a lot of bitterness on my f-list but I'm trying to stay positive, and I think the best way to do it is to lower the expectations and treat Season 8 as Joss' surviving in the drought season. It works OK this way.
While many of the fans seemed to take the kiss of true love and who might bestow it extremely seriously the comic sidestepped the romantic angst to make it more an issue of who was prepared to admit to that love in public.
I think the comic didn't sidestep romantic agnst. I think the kiss is played for serious and we'll be returning to this plot point many times until, finally, 5 years and 50 issues later we'll find out that it was Xander.
And if it really is Satsu or one of her lip gloss sharing companions then the story becomes a thematically very interesting one about hero worship and celebrity. Buffy's moved on from being the girl everyone underestimated to the woman the whole world knows about.
So, it's like Buffy Vs Dracula inside out? I agree - it would be interesting to see celebrity!Buffy.
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Date: 2007-06-10 11:38 am (UTC)I don't blame Joss for anything. I'm sorry if it sounds like blaming - it wasn't the intention. I think Joss is doing a purely commercial project to satisfy core comics audience. And if we, fans of TV show, want to enjoy the season 8 we should suspend our disbelief and dismiss the retcons - "it's just a comic". Personally, I'm trying to tune myself in to good cheesy fun in the mold of season 1. I see a lot of bitterness on my f-list but I'm trying to stay positive, and I think the best way to do it is to lower the expectations and treat Season 8 as Joss' surviving in the drought season. It works OK this way.
While many of the fans seemed to take the kiss of true love and who might bestow it extremely seriously the comic sidestepped the romantic angst to make it more an issue of who was prepared to admit to that love in public.
I think the comic didn't sidestep romantic agnst. I think the kiss is played for serious and we'll be returning to this plot point many times until, finally, 5 years and 50 issues later we'll find out that it was Xander.
And if it really is Satsu or one of her lip gloss sharing companions then the story becomes a thematically very interesting one about hero worship and celebrity. Buffy's moved on from being the girl everyone underestimated to the woman the whole world knows about.
So, it's like Buffy Vs Dracula inside out? I agree - it would be interesting to see celebrity!Buffy.