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shadowkatWell, after a difficult and stressful day at work - when I worked late, I made the colossal (okay maybe not colossal, exaggerate much?) mistake of picking up the recent Buffy comic. Comic Book Shop Boy was pleased to see me - it had been months...and I was admittedly feeling the guilt. He had four comics reserved for me. I chose two and said I'd gotten the other two through other means. I thumbed through Issue 34 of Buffy Comics, the most recent issue with the homage to Wonderwoman and Superman on the cover. And my first impression? I so don't want to wast a red cent on this thing. But, alas...I felt guilty. Comic Book Shop Boy had such a big pleasant grin.
Comic Book Shop Boy: Are you still taking the Angel comics or did you give up on those?
Me: I gave up. (Pause) Although... I'm rapidly coming close to giving up on the Buffy ones...as well(Comic Book Shop Boy laughs - he's a heavy set stocky dude with a t-shirt, beard, glasses and comes to my shoulder. I more or less tower over him.)
Me (muttering): I honestly don't know why I'm still reading these things at this point. Seriously I don't.
Impressions? Sigh, do you really want to know? I'd say it jumped the proverbial shark but I know how much you all hate that term. Let's just say the retconned plot (and yes this definitely qualifies as a retcon) gave the Fonze on his jet skis in Cypress Gardens - a run for his money.
On the bright side? I made it home - walked 10 blocks no less on a lovely day, without any, and I mean any pain in my foot! First time in two months. Yay team. (team being my body's healing powers.) Nice to have something good happen this week.
So Buffy fucks Twangel (aka Angel - although I'm going with Twangel, because I used to like Angel and now that he is Twangel - he's an irredeemable asswipe that deserves to die). They become gods. [ETA: Or as gods. Apparently there's a difference?] This opens the porthole that allows all the old ones and minions sealed off centuries ago to pour back into the earth. Causes hurricanes and tornadoes. Much death and destruction. Which the team down below are worrying about, while Faith is getting off on getting her powers back. No one else appears to be, though. Anyhow their epic fuckfest - dooms human beings and makes them obsolete. Since Buffy by sharing her power created a new species and has herself evolved to the next level, along with Angel. They are now super-beings and humans will soon be cannon fodder. Because you know, women being stronger then men...evil.
This apparently was predicted ages ago and the Watcher's greatest fear. Each slayer had the potential, but as long as they could be killed off or didn't give into their lust for vampires, the world was safe. Just let them be the weapon. The universe was waiting for Buffy. She passed the big test. She's turned the tide, upset the balance, and now with Angel who is yin to her yang, they are super-beings in the paradise of their minds, while humanity perishes in their wake.
As they fuck each other senseless and in explicit and graphic detail - seriously Jeanty should take up pornography as a second career, although I think the Spuffy sex in S6 was a bigger turn on, this I found to be laughable and somewhat ludicrious in a way that reminded me a great deal of one too many Magna comics and anime that I'd seen and read back in the 1990s - along with all sorts of cursing and muttering, and grunting. We get the verbal and the visual, folks. Anyhow as they do it - rocketing into space, because they are such the hot little item, can you even handle it??? Oh my god!! (sarcasm here folks and yes, I need a sarcasm icon this we know). We travel through time. We see past, present, and what is about to occur - apparently Spike shows up and helps Buffy with something although all they appear to be doing is looking up in shock and horror - hey maybe they are watching the Twuffy fucking? No wait, that's Dawn and the Scoobies and poor Satsu gasping in horror. Felt rather sorry for Satsu. Well at least they are fully clothed - so we know we don't get the threesome that Whedon threatened, although that may still be a possibility. (I wouldn't be at all surprised at this point if Spike showed up as TWangel's sex slave. I mean anything is possible). At least I think it is Spike and Buffy in that panel, one can never tell with Jeanty - it certainly looks like them. (that's not sarcasm in case you are wondering).
The metaphors? Oh god, I wonder what they could be??? What could possibly be the theme here??? Let me think. Ponders. Oh that's right, it's about power!! [ETC: Or celebritism (is that even a word) or the cult of celebrity. In our twisted society being a celebrity = power.] Buffy tried to give it all up and when that didn't work, she gave into it and became a god, gave into being with Angel, just went wild. Which of course had worse effects on the universe than if she'd merely given it up. And oh, wait, sharing her power - giving it to all those girls was a bad thing because it's supposed to be one girl against a million nasty male vampires who rape and murder them. Unfair you say? That's the balance folks! And the reason Buffy and Angel cause the apocalypse, the reason the universe prevents her from staking him and pushes her towards him, pushes her to give in to the glow - is wait for it, because they are the best of their kind. The worst vampire ever vs. the best slayer ever!!! They are drawn to each other!! She's drawn to her counterpart, her dark other - which of course was always Angel. It's about POWER, get it!! And how we abuse it!!!
Oh and I wonder where this is headed? Where is Whedon going? I'm on the edge of my seat with anticipation! No...wait, I know, Buffy has to seal off the demons and herself into the hell dimension as fortold by the Fray comics. They will use Dawn's energy to seal the porthole. Willow will get the backlash - driving her insane and making her immortal. Leaving poor old Angel to mope in the Buffyverse and see the results of his idiocy and why he won't be redeemed. While Xander mopes. And Faith and Spike get married and live happily ever after. (okay probably not that last part, that's also sarcasm). Personally, I'd rather see Angel sealed off in the hell dimension...but I know it's the opposite.
Sigh. I don't know about anyone else - but this plotline is making the all Penguine fanfic actually seem plausible by comparison, not to mention oddly preferable. Someone should write a penguine parody of the comic, no wait, why do a parody when the story has literally already become a parody of itself? I mean why waste time? Be sort of redundant. Remind me not to buy any books by Brad Meltzer, methinks I probably wouldn't enjoy them all that much. Since his plot arc on Buffy is giving Happy Days a run for it's money on jump the shark episodes...if he was older, I'd wonder if it was the same guy who wrote those episodes. Maybe they are related somehow? Or, wait, maybe Whedon is? Stranger things... Honestly, folks, I found this unreadable- which is saying quite a bit for me. I tend to be fairly tolerant of outlandish plots and retcons, I've watched daytime soap operas - they jump the shark on a daily basis and read X-men comics, which ahem, also does it. But this.. I scanned it quickly, got the gist, then rapidly put it away. May end up throwing the thing in the trash with the rest of my magazines. Only bought the stupid thing out of guilt.
Ugh. Bored. I think I'll go read my Rachel Morgan novel and watch In Plain Sight - time for a bit of enjoyment, don't you think?
Comic Book Shop Boy: Are you still taking the Angel comics or did you give up on those?
Me: I gave up. (Pause) Although... I'm rapidly coming close to giving up on the Buffy ones...as well(Comic Book Shop Boy laughs - he's a heavy set stocky dude with a t-shirt, beard, glasses and comes to my shoulder. I more or less tower over him.)
Me (muttering): I honestly don't know why I'm still reading these things at this point. Seriously I don't.
Impressions? Sigh, do you really want to know? I'd say it jumped the proverbial shark but I know how much you all hate that term. Let's just say the retconned plot (and yes this definitely qualifies as a retcon) gave the Fonze on his jet skis in Cypress Gardens - a run for his money.
On the bright side? I made it home - walked 10 blocks no less on a lovely day, without any, and I mean any pain in my foot! First time in two months. Yay team. (team being my body's healing powers.) Nice to have something good happen this week.
So Buffy fucks Twangel (aka Angel - although I'm going with Twangel, because I used to like Angel and now that he is Twangel - he's an irredeemable asswipe that deserves to die). They become gods. [ETA: Or as gods. Apparently there's a difference?] This opens the porthole that allows all the old ones and minions sealed off centuries ago to pour back into the earth. Causes hurricanes and tornadoes. Much death and destruction. Which the team down below are worrying about, while Faith is getting off on getting her powers back. No one else appears to be, though. Anyhow their epic fuckfest - dooms human beings and makes them obsolete. Since Buffy by sharing her power created a new species and has herself evolved to the next level, along with Angel. They are now super-beings and humans will soon be cannon fodder. Because you know, women being stronger then men...evil.
This apparently was predicted ages ago and the Watcher's greatest fear. Each slayer had the potential, but as long as they could be killed off or didn't give into their lust for vampires, the world was safe. Just let them be the weapon. The universe was waiting for Buffy. She passed the big test. She's turned the tide, upset the balance, and now with Angel who is yin to her yang, they are super-beings in the paradise of their minds, while humanity perishes in their wake.
As they fuck each other senseless and in explicit and graphic detail - seriously Jeanty should take up pornography as a second career, although I think the Spuffy sex in S6 was a bigger turn on, this I found to be laughable and somewhat ludicrious in a way that reminded me a great deal of one too many Magna comics and anime that I'd seen and read back in the 1990s - along with all sorts of cursing and muttering, and grunting. We get the verbal and the visual, folks. Anyhow as they do it - rocketing into space, because they are such the hot little item, can you even handle it??? Oh my god!! (sarcasm here folks and yes, I need a sarcasm icon this we know). We travel through time. We see past, present, and what is about to occur - apparently Spike shows up and helps Buffy with something although all they appear to be doing is looking up in shock and horror - hey maybe they are watching the Twuffy fucking? No wait, that's Dawn and the Scoobies and poor Satsu gasping in horror. Felt rather sorry for Satsu. Well at least they are fully clothed - so we know we don't get the threesome that Whedon threatened, although that may still be a possibility. (I wouldn't be at all surprised at this point if Spike showed up as TWangel's sex slave. I mean anything is possible). At least I think it is Spike and Buffy in that panel, one can never tell with Jeanty - it certainly looks like them. (that's not sarcasm in case you are wondering).
The metaphors? Oh god, I wonder what they could be??? What could possibly be the theme here??? Let me think. Ponders. Oh that's right, it's about power!! [ETC: Or celebritism (is that even a word) or the cult of celebrity. In our twisted society being a celebrity = power.] Buffy tried to give it all up and when that didn't work, she gave into it and became a god, gave into being with Angel, just went wild. Which of course had worse effects on the universe than if she'd merely given it up. And oh, wait, sharing her power - giving it to all those girls was a bad thing because it's supposed to be one girl against a million nasty male vampires who rape and murder them. Unfair you say? That's the balance folks! And the reason Buffy and Angel cause the apocalypse, the reason the universe prevents her from staking him and pushes her towards him, pushes her to give in to the glow - is wait for it, because they are the best of their kind. The worst vampire ever vs. the best slayer ever!!! They are drawn to each other!! She's drawn to her counterpart, her dark other - which of course was always Angel. It's about POWER, get it!! And how we abuse it!!!
Oh and I wonder where this is headed? Where is Whedon going? I'm on the edge of my seat with anticipation! No...wait, I know, Buffy has to seal off the demons and herself into the hell dimension as fortold by the Fray comics. They will use Dawn's energy to seal the porthole. Willow will get the backlash - driving her insane and making her immortal. Leaving poor old Angel to mope in the Buffyverse and see the results of his idiocy and why he won't be redeemed. While Xander mopes. And Faith and Spike get married and live happily ever after. (okay probably not that last part, that's also sarcasm). Personally, I'd rather see Angel sealed off in the hell dimension...but I know it's the opposite.
Sigh. I don't know about anyone else - but this plotline is making the all Penguine fanfic actually seem plausible by comparison, not to mention oddly preferable. Someone should write a penguine parody of the comic, no wait, why do a parody when the story has literally already become a parody of itself? I mean why waste time? Be sort of redundant. Remind me not to buy any books by Brad Meltzer, methinks I probably wouldn't enjoy them all that much. Since his plot arc on Buffy is giving Happy Days a run for it's money on jump the shark episodes...if he was older, I'd wonder if it was the same guy who wrote those episodes. Maybe they are related somehow? Or, wait, maybe Whedon is? Stranger things... Honestly, folks, I found this unreadable- which is saying quite a bit for me. I tend to be fairly tolerant of outlandish plots and retcons, I've watched daytime soap operas - they jump the shark on a daily basis and read X-men comics, which ahem, also does it. But this.. I scanned it quickly, got the gist, then rapidly put it away. May end up throwing the thing in the trash with the rest of my magazines. Only bought the stupid thing out of guilt.
Ugh. Bored. I think I'll go read my Rachel Morgan novel and watch In Plain Sight - time for a bit of enjoyment, don't you think?
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Date: 2010-04-09 02:25 am (UTC)I can't decide if Joss is mocking fandom and all of its cliches or if this is Joss unfiltered, pure id without any editing - in any sense. Like in a brainstorming session when you toss out those completely crazy ideas to get loosened up but quickly abandon them - instead Joss is running with it.
In any case I'm predicting a massive reset at the end of this - a Bobby Ewing in the shower level reset - I just wonder if the Frayverse will get sacrificed for it, perhaps becoming some sort of sealed off alternate timeline. Of course by the time this storyline ends it probably will be whatever year Fray takes place in.
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Date: 2010-04-09 07:47 am (UTC)I used to think there was no way Joss would do that after 4 years, and that the Bobby Ewing-ing of After the Fall was all Brian Lynch's doing, but I'm not so sure anymore. It certainly seems to be the only way to redeem Angel.
...Again.
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Date: 2010-04-10 04:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-04-09 04:34 pm (UTC)I can't decide if Joss is mocking fandom and all of its cliches or if this is Joss unfiltered, pure id without any editing - in any sense. Like in a brainstorming session when you toss out those completely crazy ideas to get loosened up but quickly abandon them - instead Joss is running with it.
Yes, makes one truly appreciate the television show's collaborative process doesn't it? Particularly the chemistry of that particular collaborative team.
In any case I'm predicting a massive reset at the end of this - a Bobby Ewing in the shower level reset - I just wonder if the Frayverse will get sacrificed for it, perhaps becoming some sort of sealed off alternate timeline. Of course by the time this storyline ends it probably will be whatever year Fray takes place in.
Stranger things have happened - in the actual comic book.
And Whedon certainly set up that possibility with Time of Your Life. That'll probably be season 9...the gang trying to find a way to push the reset button so they can save Buffy but not the demons that they sent to hell. Now...if they'd just sent Angel instead or Buffy had stacked the bastard back in S1, S2, or S3...or even after IWRY - this would NOT be a problem.