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

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I've not read the comics and really only know about the storylines secondhand, but one quote from this Ecomic made me think.

"Caleb: Why would they bother with you? You're just a dirty girl.

Spike: But I'm a very clean boy."

This, followed by the Spangel snogging (is happy fangrrl) could be read as evidence of Buffy's internalised homophobia about her relationship with Satsu. The idea that a girl is dirty, but a boy clean.

And that's about as far as that meta thought got. T'was a fun little comic though.

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This, followed by the Spangel snogging (is happy fangrrl) could be read as evidence of Buffy's internalised homophobia about her relationship with Satsu. The idea that a girl is dirty, but a boy clean.

Boy (er - inappropriate word to use), I hope not! I think that's a little convoluted even for Joss.

But it was fun, and it looked pretty.