Season 8 Comics- Joss screws up?!?!?!

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THESOMNAMBULIST

Tuesday, June 12, 2007 3:39 PM

deepgirl187 wrote:

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Think of things this way. Not a lot of people liked season four, but by the end of things, we'd had "Hush" and "Restless", two of the best episodes in the entire series.

I loved Season 4. It's actually the funniest season. The Xander/Harmony fight has me on the floor with laughter.

But you are right... Joss will explain all in the end.

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SERENITYINSCOTLAND

Wednesday, June 13, 2007 4:32 PM

Doesn't Warren taunt Willow by recalling the spell used in 'The Killer In Me' - meaning he was around in season 7?

VALDIMARIAN

Monday, June 8, 2009 4:08 AM

OK, I suppose I'm resurrecting a dead thread here, but I've got to say it for anyone who still believes this.

First off, I saw somewhere in here the question of why the first took so long to mess with Buffy. It was actually in season 3 that the First shows up, but his Bringers were killed before they could open the hellmouth.

It's commonly believed that he couldn't do much before season 6, but after Buffy's resurrection through supernatural means (not just CPR) some sort of cosmic balancing act let him gain in power. Then through season 6 he was slaughtering SITs and Watchers, just in few enough numbers to not call attention to it.

Back to the OP about Warren being back. Who's to say it's actually Warren? There's some pretty heavy suggestion that it's not actually Warren but something using his shape to mess with Amy and the military.

CHRISISALL

Friday, June 19, 2009 9:26 PM

Hate to admit it, but I've, uhh, kinda given up on the comic- the Fray issues just stopped me cold...
did I make a mistake? Has it gotten good again?

The curious Chrisisall

PHOENIXROSE

Friday, September 18, 2009 8:00 PM

(This gets kind of spoilery.)

Yeah, I just got into the comics. I was a little thrown by Warren, but not nearly as much as I was thrown by the 'future history' arc. The more I think about it, actually, the more it upsets me. I thought the series ended very well, and that Joss did a great thing with the whole "okay, you admire this character, now go BE her" thing with the potentials. I thought it really devalued that to then say "oh, by the way, that was a huge mistake and it plunges the world into darkness." I mean, it wasn't bad enough that there was this whole 'Twilight' thing, the looming death of magic. It had to change to the Big Bad being what Buffy and Willow had done. And Willow turning evil and living for centuries and orchestrating her death by Buffy's hand. That was all kinds of epic ed up. Also, I don't much like the art in those issues. Maybe I'm biased.

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CHRISISALL

Friday, September 18, 2009 8:07 PM

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I thought it really devalued that to then say "oh, by the way, that was a huge mistake and it plunges the world into darkness."

See, I don't mind them going that way in a seperate book, but pushing that stretch in my face in something that's supposed to be a continuation of the series I loved so much is sort of a deal-breaker for me.

The laughing Chrisisall

STORYMARK

Friday, September 18, 2009 8:10 PM

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Originally posted by Groosalugg:
It's an annoying mistake, but not really surprising. There's a lot of positives to continuing the story in comic form, but one of the negatives is that there's just the one writer working on it

Uh, there is more than 1 writer involved on the comic....

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."

CHRISISALL

Friday, September 18, 2009 8:32 PM

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Originally posted by Storymark:
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Originally posted by Groosalugg:
It's an annoying mistake, but not really surprising. There's a lot of positives to continuing the story in comic form, but one of the negatives is that there's just the one writer working on it

Uh, there is more than 1 writer involved on the comic....

A whole passel in point of fact!

The laughing Chrisisall

OPPYH

Sunday, September 20, 2009 4:39 AM

I stopped collecting the Buffy comics after issue #15.

For a comic series that could have been so fantastic the writers(including Joss) sure took a bath on this one. I thought the Angel comic series was amazing at the start, but that too became less than average.

I guess that comic books just aren't the medium for Buffy stories to be told.

GWEK

Sunday, September 20, 2009 2:48 PM

I enjoy BUFFY monthly, although I'll admit it has a different feel than the TV series. The character development and plot-twists are still intact, but the feel of the world is a bit more outrageous.

If you can get past the fact that the demons are just more... demon-y, that Old Joss Magic is definitely still there.

www.stillflying.net: "Here's how it might have been..."

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