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

[flake-sake.livejournal.com]

You're absolutely right on Allie. It was his job to glue the thing together in the edit and also to point out errors like the train thing.

I think really he is so full of, I'll just let Joss work that he doesn't realise he could actually improve the outcome.

I've also read one or two interviews with Meltzer and yes, he's probably the exception. On one hand he actually pointed out to Whedon that the book as a whole has a disconnected feel to it and how that could have been avoided and also he was the one who knew the whole story.

JE said in an interview she doesn't know what happens after her arc and is excited to find out and that's probably how some of the other writers were briefed too. They might have gotten some key information but the big picture input came from Joss.

I have high hopes that the last two arcs will pick up a bit, for one posetive thing there's at least some speed now.