Brief thoughts on the web comic

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Hmm.

A few more thoughts on the web comic. Spoilers for it, of course.



Glorious OTT slashiness aside, there is some darker stuff here. Buffy is obviously still very lonely and feeling abandoned. Now she's dreaming that even the two men who are supposed to love her most ("I'm the love of your lives!", my favourite line apart from the sound effects) prefer each other to her. Plus, unless Caleb's reappearance is just further evidence of Joss's total fanboying of Nathan Fillion, the presence of the uber-misogynist and his questioning of her possibly suggests Buffy still has doubts about her abilities.

Then there's the presence of Tara at the 'wedding' (which could symbolise Buffy's old longing for 'normality', which she must realise is a pipe dream, given this scenario), showing that Buffy is still carrying a boatload of guilt about so many things.

In short: poor Comics Buffy.

or maybe it's just all about cheese, who knows?

Comments

[ruuger]

Yeah, poor Buffy was my main thought as well even though I haven't been following S8 in ages.

(although my enjoyment of the comic was also greatly dampened by the fact that I've already seen the Buffy bashers crawl from the woodwork to cheer at Buffy finally getting what she deserves...)

Joan Chen's art was very pretty though - has she replaced Jeanty, or was this just a one-off?

[mrs-underhill.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, Buffy has her mind thouroughly f** up here, to a scary degree, but for me, acknowledgement of a problem is a first step towards redemption. Which I hope will come at some point - but the problem has to be identified first.
Season 8 wasn't really clear on that - on what they were trying to show, and so I just gave up on them. Buffy was obviously not well, but they just danced around it.
But maybe it will come to some satisfying conclusion after all.

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Buffy was obviously not well, but they just danced around it.

Well, I've yet to see evidence that they're doing more than that. I suppose we'll see. I'm hoping Jane E's arc will be better than the last two (it could hardly be worse).

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(although my enjoyment of the comic was also greatly dampened by the fact that I've already seen the Buffy bashers crawl from the woodwork to cheer at Buffy finally getting what she deserves...)

I didn't see any of that yesterday, but I don't understand that attitude.

I'm afraid this was just a one-off. If it weren't I might find it easier to actually care about Comics Buffy and co.