Hmm, it's the first time I didn't even have the energy to comment on the issue in the reviews of others. Because it has so many strange things happening to our heroes and provides so little explanation that I can't find the substance to talk about, and fanwank seems less and less entertaining. I'll wait for a couple of more issues to see where Joss is taking it, then comment. Right now I just don't want to guess - I want more substance from the authors, more basis for our guesses and fanwank.
I can't say it feels like a detective story/thriller for me. We had a great character study of Faith. We had a lot of philosophical exploration in Chain. We had Twilight plot developing but that also leans towards idea-based storytelling rather than plot-based storytelling. It seems to continue the exploration of "it's all about power" ideas from Buffy-7. Yes, it has much less focus on our heroes and their relationships that B7, but B7 also had a very strong ideology aspect (even though it wasn't a favorite with fans), and that's what I see continuing. Power which corrupts, power and resonsibility which is changing a person. Trying to affect the world, and what are the consequences of that.
It's just - it's so slow, and the things which are revealed are about the characters/ships I have the least investment on the show: Willow, Willow/Kennedy, Dawn. Yes, it looks like it might go into an interesting and unsafe place for everyone. But until it gets there - I'll just wait and see.
I only wanted to note that Willow doesn't come out of it looking any way better than Buffy. She seems to be stunningly delusional about her and Kennedy life and the way she can protect Kennedy from that horrible karma of Buffy. But the irony here is that Willow herself made Kenendy into a slayer, made her like Buffy in every aspect - and even alreday managed to put her through the mystical death similar to Buffy's. And coupling with demons, going further and further from humanity and turning into a powerful magical creature - I can't see how that way of life is safer and more "white picked fense" that being around Buffy (which again was already pointed out by Kennedy being through death and being left for a "magical walk-about"). I'm sorry, but that whole tearful explanation to Buffy and Kennedy was full of BS and self-delusion, and I hope we'll see it at such at some point.
Also I'm absolutely sure that we are meant to be shocked and horrified by Buffy's robbing a bank because a clear parallel was made both by Willow and by the visual clue between Buffy and the Trio/Warren. They too started with just the money, with stealing sparkly things, with robbing banks. And we remember how it ended.
Also - a great point about "terrible awareness" brought on by Sweet in OMWF and by Sephrilian.
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I'll wait for a couple of more issues to see where Joss is taking it, then comment. Right now I just don't want to guess - I want more substance from the authors, more basis for our guesses and fanwank.
I can't say it feels like a detective story/thriller for me. We had a great character study of Faith. We had a lot of philosophical exploration in Chain. We had Twilight plot developing but that also leans towards idea-based storytelling rather than plot-based storytelling. It seems to continue the exploration of "it's all about power" ideas from Buffy-7. Yes, it has much less focus on our heroes and their relationships that B7, but B7 also had a very strong ideology aspect (even though it wasn't a favorite with fans), and that's what I see continuing. Power which corrupts, power and resonsibility which is changing a person. Trying to affect the world, and what are the consequences of that.
It's just - it's so slow, and the things which are revealed are about the characters/ships I have the least investment on the show: Willow, Willow/Kennedy, Dawn. Yes, it looks like it might go into an interesting and unsafe place for everyone. But until it gets there - I'll just wait and see.
I only wanted to note that Willow doesn't come out of it looking any way better than Buffy. She seems to be stunningly delusional about her and Kennedy life and the way she can protect Kennedy from that horrible karma of Buffy. But the irony here is that Willow herself made Kenendy into a slayer, made her like Buffy in every aspect - and even alreday managed to put her through the mystical death similar to Buffy's. And coupling with demons, going further and further from humanity and turning into a powerful magical creature - I can't see how that way of life is safer and more "white picked fense" that being around Buffy (which again was already pointed out by Kennedy being through death and being left for a "magical walk-about"). I'm sorry, but that whole tearful explanation to Buffy and Kennedy was full of BS and self-delusion, and I hope we'll see it at such at some point.
Also I'm absolutely sure that we are meant to be shocked and horrified by Buffy's robbing a bank because a clear parallel was made both by Willow and by the visual clue between Buffy and the Trio/Warren. They too started with just the money, with stealing sparkly things, with robbing banks. And we remember how it ended.
Also - a great point about "terrible awareness" brought on by Sweet in OMWF and by Sephrilian.