Personally, my favorite out of this arch was #3, where we had actual conflicts and what seemed to me, very real emotions. The highlight of course being Buffy and Faith's confrontation. How they left off was excellent, but then in this issue when Buffy poofs back into the castle and gets Giles on the line, she's all 'Faith and her gang tried to drown me' or whatever. It just backed over the previous issue's ending completely imo. That was the first jarring thing.
The second being the happy sappy ending where Faith learns maybe she should try and help other troubled girls like herself *rolls eyes* I'd think we would have seen this sooner, no? Not to mention it's such a common idea in fics and such... We've still not been treated to anything that explains why Faith was completely on her own again, and if Giles could help her with her legal problems, why hasn't he allready?? I'm sure with all the resources they have at their disposal now they could work something out, not to mention Willow.
Unlike you, I didn't mind Buffy and Giles' snappy tone over the phone. They have been incommunicado so far in season 8, and Buffy even has to borrow Willow's phone to get in touch with him. There's clearly some backstory here. Hopefully, Joss will decide to let us in on it sooner or later.
Compared to them this watered down resolution is a shameful cop-out that highlights the very nature of comic-vs-TVshow dichotomy. I still think the comics will have more depth to them as we go along. I hope so in any case. Buffy's convorsation with Willow in the previous issue(another highlight) f.exa. had her talking about waging war with humans. This situation reminds me of Marvel's Civil War series, where it's demanded that all superheroes register themselves. Understandably, the gouvernment doesn't want rogue, suped up people rampaging around unchecked. This, to me, seems like the best source for what's to come. Yes, I do love my gray areas ;)
Plus, with all the girls turned into Slayers without any warning or knowledge of what happened either, there's bound to be a lot worse out there than Faith or Gigi. So far I'm not too impressed with the Twilight Dude. Give him some good lines or something, for God's sake!
And on that note, I'll just toss a sharp object at Jeanty's crappy alternate cover, and a prayer that he'll be replaced by the new guy when Jo Chen get's back to her regular gig as cover artist. Amen!
...and now you've set me off! I was swearing I wasn't going to start writing reviewish stuff. *shakes fist*
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The second being the happy sappy ending where Faith learns maybe she should try and help other troubled girls like herself *rolls eyes* I'd think we would have seen this sooner, no? Not to mention it's such a common idea in fics and such... We've still not been treated to anything that explains why Faith was completely on her own again, and if Giles could help her with her legal problems, why hasn't he allready?? I'm sure with all the resources they have at their disposal now they could work something out, not to mention Willow.
Unlike you, I didn't mind Buffy and Giles' snappy tone over the phone. They have been incommunicado so far in season 8, and Buffy even has to borrow Willow's phone to get in touch with him. There's clearly some backstory here. Hopefully, Joss will decide to let us in on it sooner or later.
Compared to them this watered down resolution is a shameful cop-out that highlights the very nature of comic-vs-TVshow dichotomy.
I still think the comics will have more depth to them as we go along. I hope so in any case. Buffy's convorsation with Willow in the previous issue(another highlight) f.exa. had her talking about waging war with humans. This situation reminds me of Marvel's Civil War series, where it's demanded that all superheroes register themselves. Understandably, the gouvernment doesn't want rogue, suped up people rampaging around unchecked. This, to me, seems like the best source for what's to come. Yes, I do love my gray areas ;)
Plus, with all the girls turned into Slayers without any warning or knowledge of what happened either, there's bound to be a lot worse out there than Faith or Gigi. So far I'm not too impressed with the Twilight Dude. Give him some good lines or something, for God's sake!
And on that note, I'll just toss a sharp object at Jeanty's crappy alternate cover, and a prayer that he'll be replaced by the new guy when Jo Chen get's back to her regular gig as cover artist. Amen!
...and now you've set me off! I was swearing I wasn't going to start writing reviewish stuff. *shakes fist*