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shadowkatWell...in case you are interested in how Whedon ended the Buffyverse in the comicsverse...here's a recap from a comics lover.
Buffy Comics S12 - Finale
It's sort of silly. Everyone is happy. All the characters are together. All is honky dory. They get rid of the demons. Change the future. It's no longer dystopian. All the slayers have their powers back.
Granted the recap is sort of like hearing a recap from well, Andrew.
And Whedon? Really? Did you just phone this in?
Anyhow..I'm glad I stopped at S11. S12 looks sort of pathetic.
And oh...this is just hilarious... 12 Casting Decisions That Hurt and Saved Buffy the Vampire Slayer -- for one thing it's actually 24. 12 each, I guess. AND...some of the selections surprised me.
The writer of this really did not like Nick Brendan, David Boreanze, Marc Blucas, and Michelle Trachenberg in their roles.
I disagree a bit. I think a lot of it was the writing. Dawn was written as whiny. I thought MT did a good job with it. I can't see anyone else doing better. DB was written as wooden and mysterious..he shines as Angelus. Nick Brendan...well, he had personal issues in S6 and S7 that took their toll, but his performance in Hell's Bells worked for me. Also, they left Giles off the list. And seriously, Andrew and DB Woodside saved it?
Not for everyone folks. I was not the only fan who found both characters grating and difficult to watch and wished for more interactions between the principal characters in the finale season. I'd have preferred LTMP to be between Giles and Spike, or Spike and Xander or even have a tough scene between Spike and Willow. It would also have been far less offensive.
And Andrew should have stayed gone per S6.
But mileage varies. I was amused anyhow.
Buffy Comics S12 - Finale
It's sort of silly. Everyone is happy. All the characters are together. All is honky dory. They get rid of the demons. Change the future. It's no longer dystopian. All the slayers have their powers back.
Granted the recap is sort of like hearing a recap from well, Andrew.
And Whedon? Really? Did you just phone this in?
Anyhow..I'm glad I stopped at S11. S12 looks sort of pathetic.
And oh...this is just hilarious... 12 Casting Decisions That Hurt and Saved Buffy the Vampire Slayer -- for one thing it's actually 24. 12 each, I guess. AND...some of the selections surprised me.
The writer of this really did not like Nick Brendan, David Boreanze, Marc Blucas, and Michelle Trachenberg in their roles.
I disagree a bit. I think a lot of it was the writing. Dawn was written as whiny. I thought MT did a good job with it. I can't see anyone else doing better. DB was written as wooden and mysterious..he shines as Angelus. Nick Brendan...well, he had personal issues in S6 and S7 that took their toll, but his performance in Hell's Bells worked for me. Also, they left Giles off the list. And seriously, Andrew and DB Woodside saved it?
Not for everyone folks. I was not the only fan who found both characters grating and difficult to watch and wished for more interactions between the principal characters in the finale season. I'd have preferred LTMP to be between Giles and Spike, or Spike and Xander or even have a tough scene between Spike and Willow. It would also have been far less offensive.
And Andrew should have stayed gone per S6.
But mileage varies. I was amused anyhow.
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Date: 2018-10-03 04:41 am (UTC)The piece must have been written by a Spuffy shipper. Clearly they didn't understand Angel's role. Picking on Nick Brendon really isn't fair, the writers really sent Xander down some pretty awful paths which ended in a number of fans not liking the character. Alyson Hannigan was a savior? She's a great character actress, but her range isn't limitless. She did great things most of the time, but season six and some less than great direction of episodes that season exposed her weaknesses. Junky Willow was awful, and Evil Willow (as opposed to Dark Willow in a couple eps. years earlier) didn't work either.
I hadn't done anything toward Buffy fandom in ages, but coincidentally I'd did click on a video this morning entitled "Buffy Was a Strange Show." The first thing that came up was the first scene at the school in the first episode where Xander first lays eyes on Buffy and is instantly smitten. The guy who put the video together spent several minutes explaining how Xander was stuck in the 1990's because he rode a skateboard in the scene. Uh, dummy, the whole thing was a set up so Xander could crash and look silly. As far as I remember no named character in the show ever did much skateboarding again. Since somebody judging Buffy the series based on just watching the first episode is ridiculous, I stopped the video there and went on to something else to watch less brainless.
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Date: 2018-10-03 12:58 pm (UTC)The guy who put the video together spent several minutes explaining how Xander was stuck in the 1990's because he rode a skateboard in the scene.
Okay...I guess he didn't know the show first aired in 1997? It was a 1990s series or late 1990s. Hello.
And...kids still ride skateboards at schools and scooters, they also annoyingly do it on NYC sidewalks, and streets. How they survive, I've no clue.
D B Woodside saved it? How? Not a bad character, but somewhere during that season the writers decided they didn't actually need him, and he might as well not have been brought in in the first place.
The problem with that was the writers didn't know what they were doing. Whedon had written the first and last episodes, but didn't know what came between. He's an odd writer. Although most television is like that. They plot out half, leave half open, and plan for actor unavailability. DB wasn't under contract, so much like Lindsey Crouse and Seth Green in S4, he could take off at any time. Add to that when they initially introduced him - they'd planned on a romance between Buffy and Wood, with Wood dying. But SMG fought against it, also there was NO chemistry. As a result, they had no clue what to do with him until around First Night, when it came to one of the writer's in a dream that he was Nikki's son. That wasn't pre-planned. I felt for the actor -- who probably just winged it.
And you can't tell if it's a Spuffy fan. A lot of non-Spuffy fans did not like Angel, Willow, or Xander. Spike fan yes, Spuffy? Not necessarily. Not all Spike fans liked Spuffy. Or it may just be a Tillow fan...a lot of Tillow fans felt like that.
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Date: 2018-10-04 07:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-10-04 12:38 pm (UTC)It's finished??? *\o/* Well, that's good news. I may watch the video once I'm home, if I can be bothered.
But thanks for making me aware!
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Date: 2018-10-04 03:31 pm (UTC)Yes, the Buffy comics are done - so they can do the reboot. LOL!
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Date: 2018-10-10 09:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-10-10 12:27 pm (UTC)LOL!. The allegedly canonical Dark Horse/Whedon sponsored version then. ;-)