Can't say I disagree with you...while it had it's moments, they were few and far between. It's a good thing that I'm a Willow/Buffy frienship shipper or I'd probably be bored.;-)
I don't know how to read the "we" bit. He's an editor and the frontman for the comic - in that he answers the fan mail, no one else does, and speaks for Joss. But if memory serves, Joss is a ghost writer and editor himself and notorious for wanting sole control. So I can't really see him giving Allie that much input, outside of maybe continuity points, which is Allie's job. But I don't know. Everyone deals with editors differently. Some people let their betas dictate plot points, others just want copyeditors. I'm guessing Allie has input, that he does help plot it, but I'm not sure by how much. It's not clear.
I worry that he is, because that means I'm not going to get what I ultimately want from these comics and should probably just give up now. ;-) (I'm a character girl and I'm guessing Allie is an action plot guy) But I'm trying to stay positive, even if it is an exercise in futility. (We're talking years of reading X-men comics - and hanging in there during the dark period, where they had more characters than I could keep track of and five different books which kept crossing over willy nilly. I did give up on them eventually, and if the Buffy comics continue in the direction they are going, I may well give up on them yet...but at the moment I have hope. It sort of depends on who Twilight turns out to be. And what they do with it.)
Had much the same reaction regarding his realization that there were too many characters...you'd have thought Whedon would have figured this out during S7, I mean Fury figured out that that was a huge problem, where was Whedon???
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I don't know how to read the "we" bit. He's an editor and the frontman for the comic - in that he answers the fan mail, no one else does, and speaks for Joss. But if memory serves, Joss is a ghost writer and editor himself and notorious for wanting sole control. So I can't really see him giving Allie that much input, outside of maybe continuity points, which is Allie's job. But I don't know. Everyone deals with editors differently.
Some people let their betas dictate plot points, others just want copyeditors. I'm guessing Allie has input, that he does help plot it, but I'm not sure by how much. It's not clear.
I worry that he is, because that means I'm not going to get what I ultimately want from these comics and should probably just give up now. ;-) (I'm a character girl and I'm guessing Allie is an action plot guy) But I'm trying to stay positive, even if it is an exercise in futility. (We're talking years of reading X-men comics - and hanging in there during the dark period, where they had more characters than I could keep track of and five different books which kept crossing over willy nilly. I did give up on them eventually, and if the Buffy comics continue in the direction they are going, I may well give up on them yet...but at the moment I have hope. It sort of depends on who Twilight turns out to be. And what they do with it.)
Had much the same reaction regarding his realization that there were too many characters...you'd have thought Whedon would have figured this out during S7, I mean Fury figured out that that was a huge problem, where was Whedon???