The last issue I think the only thing we agreed on was that there was something off about Buffy. I love this issue because it gives me a reason for that offness that recasts ever so slightly every thing that had gone before. Like I said elsewhere (http://aycheb.livejournal.com/66004.html#cutid1) it answers one question and a dozen more spring up to replace it:
Was it a one-off to enable a world saveage operation such as was shown in The Chain or a regular source of petty cash? Did Buffy plan and order the whole thing or was it agreed on by a larger group? Who knows about it, Xander? Giles? When Buffy said "the guys thought I might be a target," did they mean of Interpol? Who or what is giving them high tech equipment in exchange for gold bars?
It gives me back my Buffy who is complicated and conflicted. Voll called her a monster, Sephrelian mocks her for being human.
You praised Lynch for basic wordplay. Check out the advanced version. Espirit d’escalier means wit of the staircase and they’re on a staircase. It’s hilarious except that it doesn’t mean it literally it means the witicism you only think of on the staircase. Which Buffy was thinking of! Willow speaks twice truths that Buffy can follow neither one of, it flashbacks to French homework in the Bronze and forward to dark betrayals and the whole issue is riddled with the same.
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Date: 2008-01-09 11:17 pm (UTC)Was it a one-off to enable a world saveage operation such as was shown in The Chain or a regular source of petty cash? Did Buffy plan and order the whole thing or was it agreed on by a larger group? Who knows about it, Xander? Giles? When Buffy said "the guys thought I might be a target," did they mean of Interpol? Who or what is giving them high tech equipment in exchange for gold bars?
It gives me back my Buffy who is complicated and conflicted. Voll called her a monster, Sephrelian mocks her for being human.
You praised Lynch for basic wordplay. Check out the advanced version. Espirit d’escalier means wit of the staircase and they’re on a staircase. It’s hilarious except that it doesn’t mean it literally it means the witicism you only think of on the staircase. Which Buffy was thinking of! Willow speaks twice truths that Buffy can follow neither one of, it flashbacks to French homework in the Bronze and forward to dark betrayals and the whole issue is riddled with the same.