Someone Clear This Up for Me... (BtVS Comic Book Spoilers)

[liz_marcs]

I've been dying to ask this now since the BtVS comics spoilers about Twilight have come out, and now that they have, I'm asking...

Before certain BtVS 'shippers RAGE and cancel their subscripions, and other BtVS 'shippers get too happy about the sparkly flying sex I keep hearing so much about...

Comments

[liz_marcs]

A woman falling into the arms of her first crush is a favored trope by Joss. There are old-school X-Men and Kitty Pryde fans who to this day are pissed he basically magically hand-waved all of Kitty Pryde's character development in the Marvel universe to re-hook her up with Petyr, someone she dated when she was 15.

Oh, and then he basically killed Kitty by making her fuse with an armed alien missle and sending both off into deep space never to be heard from again.

But, bah! And yeah. This whole deal where Buffy comes across as less mature than she did in Season 1 is getting very old.

[shakatany]

Hmmm I wonder who Whedon's first love was?

Comic book characters by the very medium they're in can never be more than two dimensional. For me "S8" reminds me of the animated Star Trek series, produced by Roddenberry and written by some of the TOS writers, that aired a few years after TOS went off the air. Both are childish and lack the tremendous contributions of the actors who originated the roles (even though most of the actors voiced their characters in the animated ST). Comic book characters essentially remain the same age - I mean Superman still looks good after 70 years and as you write if one writer does add a bit of depth and change another writer can simply change the the character back. I can see the BtVS comics 70 years hence with Buffy still little more than a teenager (and still crushing on Angel *g*).

Shakatany

[liliaeth]

Comic book characters by the very medium they're in can never be more than two dimensional.

Actually, you're wrong on that one. There are good comics, with characters that are three or more dimensional, who have all the depth and meaning of a full grown novel. Unfortunately, the longer a comic lasts, the bigger the chance that some old school fan gets their hands on the chars, and tries to 'return them to what they were' aka what they themselves saw in the char when they first started reading as kids. Which usually tends to lead to crap.*g*