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

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

You might try flake_sake about the comics.

And as I didn't watch Dollhouse, I'm a bit unclear about what character you're speaking of.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Oh, and I still refuse to believe that Jacob is the 'good' option. Everything we've been shown in sideways-verse just backs up that Jacob is every bit as manipulative and destructive as MIB. Jacob is just the one who fraks you with fate. MIB chooses to make you frak yourself through your own free will.

[flake-sake.livejournal.com]

In case you want to read the comic, I posted a link yesterday.

I so agree about this being probably the coffin to Bangel. Not only is he insane evil as shit and turns her into a zombie, but they did also bascally retconn the whole ship if Twangel's line about them always having been connected by the unholy glow.

It's saying the Bangel attraction is nothing more than bad magic.

Also yes, the Dollhouse connections are very plain, the zombiefication, the being programmed to love and trust someone. It really is a repeat performance.

[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.