You make an awful lot of good points, but I'm with moscow - it ties too heavily into her S3 arc, and not enough into anything afterwards. Giles could have sprung her straight from prison and nothing would have been different. *ponders* Actually that might have worked better.
Faith in S4 of ATS was to the point, and took charge easily. Faith in S7 of BtVS was quieter, but focussed on the mission and willing to reach out and open up to those around her - including Buffy. I don't see that reflected in the comics.
There is some emotional sore spot that triggers Buffy's sudden mope. I'm just expecting that we ARE going to get that backstory. Dear lord I hope so, because I've totally lost interest in her now. She's so un-Buffy-esque, that I'm sure she's just a decoy, and the one in Rome is the real one.
Oh and I meant to comment on this also:
The easy solution for Faith tells us that this really wasn't Faith's story after all. It's Buffy's. Faith is shown as having learned and grown. Faith made the wise decisions. Faith's instincts were spot on. Buffy hasn't grown much. Her instincts are way off. Buffy is the one with more story. This is what I have a problem with. This Buffy is not one I recognise - Buffy on the show had moved past all that. It feels like we're re-treading the same ground we've already covered, just more simplistically.
(Sorry about the rantiness. I hope issue 10 will clear up a lot of this. But I'm not really expecting it to. [/it's been a long weekend w. poorly children, so I'm kinda down])
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Date: 2007-12-09 07:34 pm (UTC)Faith in S4 of ATS was to the point, and took charge easily. Faith in S7 of BtVS was quieter, but focussed on the mission and willing to reach out and open up to those around her - including Buffy. I don't see that reflected in the comics.
There is some emotional sore spot that triggers Buffy's sudden mope. I'm just expecting that we ARE going to get that backstory.
Dear lord I hope so, because I've totally lost interest in her now. She's so un-Buffy-esque, that I'm sure she's just a decoy, and the one in Rome is the real one.
Oh and I meant to comment on this also:
The easy solution for Faith tells us that this really wasn't Faith's story after all. It's Buffy's. Faith is shown as having learned and grown. Faith made the wise decisions. Faith's instincts were spot on. Buffy hasn't grown much. Her instincts are way off. Buffy is the one with more story.
This is what I have a problem with. This Buffy is not one I recognise - Buffy on the show had moved past all that. It feels like we're re-treading the same ground we've already covered, just more simplistically.
(Sorry about the rantiness. I hope issue 10 will clear up a lot of this. But I'm not really expecting it to. [/it's been a long weekend w. poorly children, so I'm kinda down])