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

[pen-romantic.livejournal.com]

Ok I do think it is Caleb because the scene in this last issue was pretty much ointless other that remember his existance

I however think Riley will be above (rank wise) being all govermenty like... plus it is so like Joss... big bad going straight the next season (Spike season 2 and 4 and tehn in 5, 6 ,7 ) , and good guy becoming big bad the next one (Angel season 1 and season 2)

I for one don't want to see Xander heart broken again (although we all know it is inevitable) but maybe there will be someone heart broken enough to have a revenge demon summoned and ANYA is back..... yes I am still hoping for her to show

[moscow-watcher.livejournal.com]

maybe there will be someone heart broken enough to have a revenge demon summoned and ANYA is back..... yes I am still hoping for her to show

I like the idea! Without demons - Anya and Spike - in the regular cast the show has lost part of its charm. Since Spike is busy in Los-Angeles, Anya could represent the demon population for the two of them! :)

[pen-romantic.livejournal.com]

Yes I know .. and I do not want a Clem cameo he was absurd and nota good charchter like Lorne was... we need something evil looking, ironically in teh Angel comics no one is human well except Angel , youhave 2 vampires , a werewolf girl, a fish, a semigod
a superhuamn teen, and in Buffy team, we have onluy humans.. well except Dawn... but yes we need someone evil looking but good hearted....