But I read other fans' responses and nobody seems disgusted. Maybe I'm just unaccustomed to to mangas? Does it often happens in mangas?
I have no idea if it had anything to do with manga, but frankly, I thought it was too silly to squick me. Like you, it mainly made me think of the Alien series, and while that's a pretty creepy concept, it's also become a little too commonplace to be creepy in and of itself.
now we know for sure that bank-robbing and submarine-stealing was intended to spell: B-u-f-f-y I-s W-r-o-n-g.
I never understood the people who were (and in some cases still are) arguing that Buffy's doing everything right; as far as I can tell, it's been pretty obvious since #8 at least that she's doing a bunch of things that always equal raising the Big Red Flag of Wrong in the Jossverse. I don't think it's supposed to be as simple as her simply being "wrong", though; it's supposed to look like a difficult situation where none of the alternatives really is 100% completely simple and good - which makes it all the more unfortunate that they've apparently decided not to show us any of the decisions that led her to this point, or exactly what the current situation is with "everyone" hating the Slayers, etc. Show us why Buffy does what she does as opposed to doing something else, and she might look more justified.
I wonder how Joss plans to resolve the situation.
I'm still pretty convinced there's some sort of epiphany coming. And I'm still pretty convinced that the longer we have to wait and the more they screw up in the meantime, the more eye-rolling it will cause. But we'll see.
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I have no idea if it had anything to do with manga, but frankly, I thought it was too silly to squick me. Like you, it mainly made me think of the Alien series, and while that's a pretty creepy concept, it's also become a little too commonplace to be creepy in and of itself.
now we know for sure that bank-robbing and submarine-stealing was intended to spell: B-u-f-f-y I-s W-r-o-n-g.
I never understood the people who were (and in some cases still are) arguing that Buffy's doing everything right; as far as I can tell, it's been pretty obvious since #8 at least that she's doing a bunch of things that always equal raising the Big Red Flag of Wrong in the Jossverse. I don't think it's supposed to be as simple as her simply being "wrong", though; it's supposed to look like a difficult situation where none of the alternatives really is 100% completely simple and good - which makes it all the more unfortunate that they've apparently decided not to show us any of the decisions that led her to this point, or exactly what the current situation is with "everyone" hating the Slayers, etc. Show us why Buffy does what she does as opposed to doing something else, and she might look more justified.
I wonder how Joss plans to resolve the situation.
I'm still pretty convinced there's some sort of epiphany coming. And I'm still pretty convinced that the longer we have to wait and the more they screw up in the meantime, the more eye-rolling it will cause. But we'll see.