Angel & Faith Season 10 No 3
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shapinglightRead this today.
Not really a review behind the cut because I can't be bothered.
Spoilers.
In fact, I so can't be bothered that I'm just going to copy and paste something (brief) I wrote elsewhere and add a few bits here and there. As follows:
Nadira just doesn't seem like the same person at all, and since she was my favourite character in season 9 and it feels like she's just...gone, I don't feel I have much incentive to keep on reading. Maybe at some point Gischler will go into why she's changed the way she has, but I suspect by then I just won't care.
Faith's story interests me more than Angel's so far. The London setting isn't working for me. It doesn't feel like London any more by any stretch of the imagination, whereas in season 9, there may have been wonky moments (fire hydrants on the streets, for instance), but the sense of place was a little more authentic. Also, Angel isn't any good on his own. He never has been. He can seem quite boring and generic without a strong ensemble to back him up and inject some humour into the story by giving him a reality check whenever his dark avenger act gets too self-important (not that it ever stopped him from being a self-involved idiot who does stupid things all the time, but whatever). So far, even the supporting cast that Gage provided (Giles's aunts and Alistair Coames) have been mostly absent, and Inspector Brandt on his own isn't filling the gap yet.
Also, Pearl and Nash were boring villains in season 9 and I can't see Pearl on her own being any more interesting.
Faith's part of the book is better. I like seeing Kennedy and the other slayers and their reaction to Faith. I like that Faith, as it turns out, is rubbish with guns. But it's still not doing a lot for me. Gischler's stuff never does, and this as true of his work on the X-Men as it is of that dull as ditchwater Spike mini series.
:Yawn:
Not really a review behind the cut because I can't be bothered.
Spoilers.
In fact, I so can't be bothered that I'm just going to copy and paste something (brief) I wrote elsewhere and add a few bits here and there. As follows:
Nadira just doesn't seem like the same person at all, and since she was my favourite character in season 9 and it feels like she's just...gone, I don't feel I have much incentive to keep on reading. Maybe at some point Gischler will go into why she's changed the way she has, but I suspect by then I just won't care.
Faith's story interests me more than Angel's so far. The London setting isn't working for me. It doesn't feel like London any more by any stretch of the imagination, whereas in season 9, there may have been wonky moments (fire hydrants on the streets, for instance), but the sense of place was a little more authentic. Also, Angel isn't any good on his own. He never has been. He can seem quite boring and generic without a strong ensemble to back him up and inject some humour into the story by giving him a reality check whenever his dark avenger act gets too self-important (not that it ever stopped him from being a self-involved idiot who does stupid things all the time, but whatever). So far, even the supporting cast that Gage provided (Giles's aunts and Alistair Coames) have been mostly absent, and Inspector Brandt on his own isn't filling the gap yet.
Also, Pearl and Nash were boring villains in season 9 and I can't see Pearl on her own being any more interesting.
Faith's part of the book is better. I like seeing Kennedy and the other slayers and their reaction to Faith. I like that Faith, as it turns out, is rubbish with guns. But it's still not doing a lot for me. Gischler's stuff never does, and this as true of his work on the X-Men as it is of that dull as ditchwater Spike mini series.
:Yawn:
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Date: 2014-06-10 02:10 pm (UTC)Oh, I don't know. I'd wager they're more aware of the comic pseudoplot than the show. That's not saying much.
Always did think arc 1 and the Goddard ToV comic (which is canon now, I guess?) referenced each other. The panel of Drac knocking Buffy out the window is reused more or less when she's knocked out of the window and caught by the dragon in the dream. And of course the lecture about how she'll become a joke as he has.
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Date: 2014-06-10 02:36 pm (UTC)