Lost, Twilight, Crave Fic....

[shadowkat]

So, the long-anticipated Twilight Reveal happened in Buffy Comic Issue # 33 finally? Haven't read it or got it yet, because, you know, I can't. Stress fracture is still healing. I haven't made it to my beloved church in weeks, I'm hardly going to kill myself by walking ten blocks to the comics store. Also avoiding the reviews for now - no time. And I'm hoping to read the comic first...so if anyone has any links to it that I can access? Please provide.

I only know about the reveal because half my flist is commenting on it or rather commenting on the reaction of fandom to the issue which is a reaction I more or less predicted two months ago, when the reveal got leaked and I thought, frak, IDW is probably pissed right now and boy was I wrong about Whedon - I didn't think he'd do that to IDW. Should have known better. That biz is nasty. Not that I give a frig for IDW, I don't. But...anywho...I still think Hank Summers would have been a better bet all around. ;-)

All I'll say about the Twilight Reveal is that I predicted that this would be the reaction about two months ago, when the reveal was leaked. I also stated that if I were a B/A shipper I would stop reading now and have warned the Angel shippers on my flist to skip the Buffy comics. I knew exactly what they were going to after I watched the final four episodes of Dollhouse. Let's just say a certain character on Dollhouse, and it is not Ballard, has a lot in common with Angel and leave it at that. Whedon retreads the same ground and he's gotten a bit self-righteous and preachy in his old age, which I find annoying and gets in the way of the story.

They did this tale before guys - if you watched Dollhouse, you saw it.

Anyhow enuf of that...if you want my thoughts on Lost - go here, where selenak does a review of the episode that more or less states everything I thought while watching it. Also, didn't think I'd say this - but I preferred the Jack episode. Also you know there is a problem when you are rooting for the wrong team. I am. I don't like Team Jack, sorry. And this episode left me cold. It was sooo predictable and somewhat dull. I'm afraid they are following the set-up of Stephen King's The Stand - which would not be surprising since they stated ages ago in a review that The Stand inspired Lost. (sigh). Seriously, Hollywood people, you need to read a much wider variety of fiction. Hopefully, I am wrong.

Oh well, on a brighter note: Looking forward to Caprica and am off to re-read Nauti's Crave - which I'm resisting the urge to write a meta on, since you'll probably think I've lost it completely. But I love this fic, oh, I love it like you would not believe. She really delves into the psyche of the characters, and plays with how power affects people in an interesting way. This is a female fic and I so desperately needed it. While Whedon's comics feel very male to me.

Comments

[candleanfeather.livejournal.com]

" I knew exactly what they were going to after I watched the final four episodes of Dollhouse. "

J Whedon certainly has a tendency to revisit certain thematics which isn't a bad thing per se. But if he is playing with the same ideas as in Dollhouse, like you think, the question is will he be able to explore a different aspect of it?

Finally, the links between season 8 and Dollhouse shouldn't come as a total surprise, if he was thinking about Dollhouse around the same time he conceived the idea of Season 8. When the stroy will be done, a comparison between the two could be interesting. (Nudges you for meta with not great subtility)

I wish you a good Sunday and hope your personal worries are going to be quickly alleviated.