Have you seen the Dark Horse webcomic that accompanies this issue, also written by DeKnight? http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=218201811
Yes, I saw it but shrugged it off as a joke.
I don't know how obvous it would be to someone who doesn't have English as their first language but trust me: the dialogue is definitely a parody of badly-subtitled anime.
The dialogue sounded very weird to my foreign ears (or, rather, eyes) but, to me, the whole story was extremely baffling.
The whole issue, to me, is similar; it's gloriously over-the-top, cartoony parody.
Maybe fans who have some manga experience enjoy the parody on its stereotypes. I get that manga and anime are very popular today - some of my friends, former BtVS fans, switched to anime and mangas. But I couldn't get into it.
The excessive violence, giant monsters, etc are also stereotypical.
Obviously I read the cultural references wrong and the similarities to Alien movies weren't intended.
If the theme of the season is "Empowering these women has led to some of them using their power unwisely" I don't think offering the solution "And therefore it was a mistake to empower these women, and we should make them helpless again" would send a good message...
But Joss could steer around this message by showing that de-empowering *all* slayers is equally wrong and clueless humanity succumb to Twilight's evil PR tricks. It could be a great set-up for season 9: Buffy-the-outcast-ex-slayer trying to fight vamps without her slayer power.
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Date: 2009-02-08 01:22 pm (UTC)http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=218201811
Yes, I saw it but shrugged it off as a joke.
I don't know how obvous it would be to someone who doesn't have English as their first language but trust me: the dialogue is definitely a parody of badly-subtitled anime.
The dialogue sounded very weird to my foreign ears (or, rather, eyes) but, to me, the whole story was extremely baffling.
The whole issue, to me, is similar; it's gloriously over-the-top, cartoony parody.
Maybe fans who have some manga experience enjoy the parody on its stereotypes. I get that manga and anime are very popular today - some of my friends, former BtVS fans, switched to anime and mangas. But I couldn't get into it.
The excessive violence, giant monsters, etc are also stereotypical.
Obviously I read the cultural references wrong and the similarities to Alien movies weren't intended.
If the theme of the season is "Empowering these women has led to some of them using their power unwisely" I don't think offering the solution "And therefore it was a mistake to empower these women, and we should make them helpless again" would send a good message...
But Joss could steer around this message by showing that de-empowering *all* slayers is equally wrong and clueless humanity succumb to Twilight's evil PR tricks. It could be a great set-up for season 9: Buffy-the-outcast-ex-slayer trying to fight vamps without her slayer power.