Buffy season 10 no 25 & 26
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shapinglightThese came out while I was away so everyone who is interested has probably already read them. But, since the next one comes out tomorrow, some brief thoughts behind cut.
I can't really remember what events happened in which issue, but I suppose it doesn't matter. My main thought when I got to the end of them was, so D'Hoffryn is the Big Bad? What a surprise. Not.
I also felt a bit irritated that, out of nowhere (because wasn't it established in the show that she's not the Key any more but just human?) Dawn is suddenly all-powerful.
On the other hand, the Xander and Dawn in the demon dimension scenes were the best (and best written) scenes in the two issues, so I'm not complaining that hard about Dawn's Keyness. Xander teaching the Anharra demons about sloping roofs and doing his Dr Mike act on them was hilarious, and sort of cute.
As for the other characters, I'm really not sure what Spike and Buffy are supposed to be arguing about, but it's plain as plain they're going to break up before the season ends, and Gage appears to be tying himself into knots to make it not Spike's fault at all. I'm really not sure why. Buffy, meanwhile, comes across most of the time as angry bordering on hysterical. I'm not sure why this is either.
Okay, I get that she had to make the decision to leave Dawn and Xander in Anharra, but as she pointed out to Spike, Dawn is an adult. She has the right to make her own decisions. Xander too.
Maybe Gage is harping back to the way Buffy (temporarily) went catatonic in season 5 of the show when Glory got hold of Dawn, and has forgotten that by the end of season 7, Buffy told Giles she would sacrifice Dawn in a heartbeat to save the world? In other words, Buffy's a grown up Slayer now. She would not go to pieces just because Dawn was in danger. She would pull out all the stops to save Dawn, sure, but she wouldn't lose sight of the big picture.
What I'm really trying to say, I suppose, is that Buffy and Spike's disagreement (whatever it really is) all seems a bit contrived, and I don't like the way Buffy's being written while it's happening. But then the comics writing Buffy's character so as to make her incompetent/unreliable has been pretty much a given since season 8 started.
Anyway, 27 comes out tomorrow, so we'll see.
On a lighter note, anyone else notice that Mini!Giles is dressed like Rupert the Bear in no 25?
I can't really remember what events happened in which issue, but I suppose it doesn't matter. My main thought when I got to the end of them was, so D'Hoffryn is the Big Bad? What a surprise. Not.
I also felt a bit irritated that, out of nowhere (because wasn't it established in the show that she's not the Key any more but just human?) Dawn is suddenly all-powerful.
On the other hand, the Xander and Dawn in the demon dimension scenes were the best (and best written) scenes in the two issues, so I'm not complaining that hard about Dawn's Keyness. Xander teaching the Anharra demons about sloping roofs and doing his Dr Mike act on them was hilarious, and sort of cute.
As for the other characters, I'm really not sure what Spike and Buffy are supposed to be arguing about, but it's plain as plain they're going to break up before the season ends, and Gage appears to be tying himself into knots to make it not Spike's fault at all. I'm really not sure why. Buffy, meanwhile, comes across most of the time as angry bordering on hysterical. I'm not sure why this is either.
Okay, I get that she had to make the decision to leave Dawn and Xander in Anharra, but as she pointed out to Spike, Dawn is an adult. She has the right to make her own decisions. Xander too.
Maybe Gage is harping back to the way Buffy (temporarily) went catatonic in season 5 of the show when Glory got hold of Dawn, and has forgotten that by the end of season 7, Buffy told Giles she would sacrifice Dawn in a heartbeat to save the world? In other words, Buffy's a grown up Slayer now. She would not go to pieces just because Dawn was in danger. She would pull out all the stops to save Dawn, sure, but she wouldn't lose sight of the big picture.
What I'm really trying to say, I suppose, is that Buffy and Spike's disagreement (whatever it really is) all seems a bit contrived, and I don't like the way Buffy's being written while it's happening. But then the comics writing Buffy's character so as to make her incompetent/unreliable has been pretty much a given since season 8 started.
Anyway, 27 comes out tomorrow, so we'll see.
On a lighter note, anyone else notice that Mini!Giles is dressed like Rupert the Bear in no 25?