BtVS issue 11spoilery specs

[moscow_watcher]

I finally read issue 11. Don't have ideas for a review, but here are some spoilery speculations.

1. Twilight's identity.

He's somebody we know. Story-wise, there is no need to hide a face and to change a voice (I was told that "funny" font he uses means he distorts his voice) unless you're afraid to be recognized.

Who is he? So far the prime suspects are Caleb and Riley.

Arguments for Caleb:

-- he's been shown twice in the comics (in this issue and in Buffy's dreamspace in issue 3)
-- he knows "Buffy's move" when she tries to use the technique she used to kill Caleb
-- Caleb is a preacher and Buffy/Twilight fight is heavy with church props and there is even a direct reference (Buffy: "Church me")

Arguments against Caleb:

-- I find it hard to imagine him aknowledging that "one girl was OK"

-- Twilight's cool boots are his trademark feature and Caleb wore shoes in season 7



Arguments for Riley

-- Although he isn't mentioned by name, there is a lot of indirect Riley presence in this issue. Twilight's arrival is forestalled with Buffy recalling her dream in Restless (Buffy to Satsu: "You look like me in a dream I had one time")




RILEY: (offscreen) Thought you were looking for your friends. Okay, killer... if that's the way you want it. I guess you're on your own. (Walks off.)

-- later Buffy mentions Riley among "people who died" - - "they start letting vamps suck on 'em and they leave"

-- Joss has promised Riley's return

Arguments against Riley

-- character-wise, it doesn't make sense (then again does Buffy robbing banks make sense?)

2. Mole identity.

I can't see anybody but Renee as a mole.

Story-wise, it's very Jossian. Renee as a traitor will provide Xander with a heartbreak big enough to satisfy Joss.

Character-wise, it doesn't add up: she sounds very sweet and sincerely in love with Xander. But I can't help remembering Knox on Joss-penned AtS episode A Hole in the World. He also was sweet and sounded sincere in his love for Fred. Joss even included him in a powershot of the characters going with the mission of saving Fred. And several scenes later a slip of tongue betrayed him as a man who killed her. Typical Joss.

So - any ideas?

Comments

[mrs-underhill.livejournal.com]

I agree Caleb seems the most likely candidate, but I'd hate for it be him. He was over-the-top and boring, and he's dead. Maybe it's the First merging with someone else?
And I don't think it's Riley.

Also this issue made me doubt the Twilight's original claim that its goal is to destroy all magic. Now it seems to be reverting the change brought by Buffy. By trying to break the chain, and now, as we can see, by demoralizing Buffy instead of killing her. Strange, but I can see an ambigous guy in this role, the guy who thinks he's a good guy and is doing the right thing.

Giles seems more likely in this role. Also maybe it would explain how he could find a spell so fast in that Twilight manual, to destroy Roden. Maybe he already knew the spell? Also we saw Giles already bitching about there being too many Slayers, and the shifting of balance. I'll go with Giles for a time being, and his betrayal would be the closest and unexpected, even after his previous betrayals. Because previous betrayals he either regretted and amended for, or did them for Buffy's own good, as he saw it.

[moscow-watcher.livejournal.com]

I agree Caleb seems the most likely candidate, but I'd hate for it be him. He was over-the-top and boring, and he's dead. Maybe it's the First merging with someone else?

With Joss :)))

But, seriously, I remember reading somebody's report that writers were very excited about Caleb and work with Nathan Fillion when Joss told them. They started to invent Caleb's trademark gestures and expressions, but Joss told them that, unfortunately, they don't have time for it. Maybe he's catching up.

So far, Twilight's scratchy neck made me laugh at least once.

And I don't think it's Riley.

I also doubt it. Although Buffy's dream has a very menacing Riley in it, it may be a coincidence.

Also this issue made me doubt the Twilight's original claim that its goal is to destroy all magic. Now it seems to be reverting the change brought by Buffy.

Looking at the bigger picture, I think that season 9 will feature the one and only Slayer again. No evidence, no rational explanation, just a feeling.

Giles seems more likely in this role.

In issue 3 Giles is trying to find out about Twilight symbol when he speaks with a demon. I doubt it was an act.

[mrs-underhill.livejournal.com]

In issue 3 Giles is trying to find out about Twilight symbol when he speaks with a demon. I doubt it was an act.
He could be acting for those demons' sake. And we saw Twilight employing demons as well. Hi might be checking how much those demons know. But I'm reaching here, it's just a speculation. Anything is possible.