Buffy S8 Review and a bit on writing...

Picked up the Buffy comic today and distracted self with it, along with General Hospital - which I'm adoring right now, it's a great story, with wonderful music and operatic overtones, makeing me think that I should see more Opera, something tells me that I have an affinity for it. The Buffy comic...was a bit on the disappointing side, but it has been for quite some time now so am sort of getting used to it. I think I've figured out where Whedon is going with it and why. And over all, I still love and identify with his themes and major two female characters, Buffy and Willow, even if the others have sort of fallen by the wayside.

When I picked up the comic, the store owner asked if it was written by one of the tv show writers. I responded - yes, Jane Espenson wrote for the tv show, she also wrote for BSG, and Star Trek or rather one of the Star Trek's and the fact that I know all of that..yeah, I'm not a geek. Sigh. Definitely a geek.;-) I added that this, meaning the comic, was unfortunately not Jane's best work.

The most interesting thing about the comic though was the letters page - there's a rather fascinating discourse between a fan and Scott Allie that made me sort of respect Allie's pov for a change or at least understand it. The fan was discussing how important it was for fans of a story to know that it was pre-planned, that the plot and world were built and outlined in advance, not completely but enough that things made sense, and something wouldn't pop out of nowhere or cause the world to fall into chaos.
( on writing - a discourse between a fan and an editor on comic writing, no spoilers )

( Buffy Retreat Part 5 - Spoilers )