Buffy season 10 no 15

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Short review behind cut. Spoilers, of course.



I only got back this evening and I'm too tired to write much, but really I don't have a lot to say. I'm still enjoying the hell out of the Spuffy (despite the fact that I agree with everyone who complains it's all too wordy - but that does seem to be Gage's style), still expecting the other shoe to drop at some point but not with quite so much apprehension.

Sorry to see what might be the end of Xander and Dawn. I hope it's not.

Enjoyed the brief Spike/Giles conversation at the end (would like more of it, actually), and liked the brief Spike/Angel exchange.

Am pretty sure Angel's arrival in the Buffy book will stir things up in some ways. Not least in that Spike will probably become all rude and sarcastic again. Which is okay, because the whole scooby togetherness thing currently going on is getting a bit too sugary.

A-and that's pretty much it. Anyone want to talk about it?

I'm spoilered for the latest episode of GoT, btw. It may take me a day or two to gather up the courage to watch it.

Comments

[singedbylife.livejournal.com]

LOL, I don't think I would be that drastic about it but yes, as far as this season is concerned I'm just riding along on the wave and enjoying it while it lasts. For me at least, this is the first time, I feel like I'm actually watching Buffy and that's a very nice experience.

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For me at least, this is the first time, I feel like I'm actually watching Buffy and that's a very nice experience.

Having just finished my BtVS rewatch, I'm in two minds about this now. I think now that I can see how early season 8 Buffy could have developed from Buffy in season 7 (this impression based, admittedly, on the rewatch hammering home what I'd already thought - that Buffy still loved Angel when the show ended and that Spike was right when he said he never had a chance with her). On the other hand, in season 8 Joss took season 7 Buffy in a direction that made her plain unlikeable (this has nothing to do with Spike at all, btw - couldn't, given that he wasn't in season 8 anyway). Season 10 Comics Buffy may not be much like Buffy from the show, but she's likeable enough.

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I could see S8 Buffy following from S7 Buffy all too easily... and I could see S10 Buffy following from S7 Buffy, if a little less easily. It's just hard to see how S10 Buffy follows from S8/9 Buffy.

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Yeah, she doesn't really at all. This Buffy has never had her life's work turn to crap in her hands (quite a bit through her own doing) and been made an outcast by the girls she tried to help (again, quite a bit through her own doing).