Um...

[lirazel]

Since nobody else on lj seems to be talking about it, I guess I'll bring it up:

Does anybody have some thoughts on the newly revealed Buffy comic covers*?

I am...slightly perturbed. And then angry at myself for caring. BUT I CAN'T HELP IT, DAMNIT! My face? Looked like Bob's in my moodtheme. Just like that. And in case you were wondering, it's not the possible revelation of the identity of Twilight that bothers me. It's the thing I refer to in my tags.... Although even though I'm not reading the comics, that would be a stupid, stupid revelation. Stupid.

Emmie? Hon? Wanna explain this one for me?



*spoilers liek woah

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[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

How many more months do you think that'll take? Another year? ;)

OMG YES. He totally could have salvaged something from that mess. Oh, Doug Petrie! You gave us "Fool for Love"! I will never understand how you could also produce "As You Were," even accounting for your massive mancrush on Blucas!

[angearia.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure Joss was doing some heavy lifting on Fool For Love, though. Because he had to elaborately connect Fool For Love with Darla over on AtS. So he was working both stories hardcore there. And he also is the type to give Spike a poetic background because 1) he loves poetry (witness Shakespeare readings and Illyria speech) and 2) it makes Spike sympathetic which is something Petrie doesn't really like doing. I'm recalling how Petrie didn't want to give Spike the 007 escape from the Initiative because it made him look like the hero and both Joss and Jane E. said that in that moment, Spike was the hero.

Speaking of Illyria, Joss would come in to write almost all of the Wesley/Illyria scenes but didn't take a writer's credit. So yeah, wouldn't surprise me if much of what we love about Fool For Love was Joss-lead-and-inspired.


ETA: Sorry I keep editing! I think we have one more year left of the comics.

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

I figured that he did indeed have probably something to do with it, but I like to give Petrie the benefit of the doubt since we don't know which exact scenes were doctored, you know? But yeah: you're probably right.

And that's yet another reason to love Jane E. What a cool lady. I covet her life.

Oh, Joss so would write the Wes/Illyria stuff. I love the Wes/Illyria stuff almost as much as I love Wes/Lilah. And almost as much as I hate Wes/Fred. Which is strange, because I don't have a lot of intense feelings about Wes as a character, and I feel like I'm the only one.

[ETA] It's cool! Wow. And he's still talking about S9. Ambitious man.

Thanks for the info, love! You're a fount of knowledge!