I think where season 8 fails is its huge scope: a lot of shit happened. Almost too much, so that now that we're at the end of the season there's so much to wrap up and tie off that everything is dense and meta-y instead of tightly written.
And Twilight sucked. Any discussion of where S8 fails has to discuss that the spakking is quite possibly some of the worst shit ever put down in comic book form.
But just because we have overreaching meta-y criticisms doesn't mean we can't squee over small character moments, and that's what this issue did well: Spike and Buffy were Spike and Buffy, rather than the dickwad formerly known as Angel and This Year's Bella Swann. I still can't take any of her dialogue to Angel in #36 seriously because it's so obvious she's out of her fucking mind (wow, I have a potty mouth this morning, don't I?) because the next thing we see of her in #37 is sex fantasies with Spike and calling him the place where she can be safe and dark. Sorry, BR forum, but I find you still delusional and amusing in the same way I find Jackass amusing: I can't look away, no matter how much I want to.
Scott Allie won my heart this issue, and I wish I could take away the tag calling him a douchebag. He gets the gender reversal, and Emmie's been telling him "MOAR!" so he's hearing that that is why we love Spike and Buffy - because they challenge the norm and have an inherent intimacy that no one else has. He was a big boy in the lettercol this month, so gotta give props where props are due. He manned up, realized he wasn't being professional, and this month I think I'm gonna point to his answer and ask if Georges Jeanty has anything else he'd like to man up to (damn, I'm gonna need a Slayalive account now, right?).
Angel is still the dickwad of the moment. And I have a My Little Pony plastic flying Lion toy somewhere in storage I wish I could find so I could make snarky icons calling Angel "DADDY!" because there is SO MUCH LOLZ with Angel's being such a dupe. I laughed mean-spiritedly when the kitty-bird-lion thing showed up, I'll admit it, and no one should be surprised by that. Gotta wonder where Connor is and if we'll actually see anything addressed as to why AtS Angel is nowehere to be found. The plus side of dickwad Angel: He makes Spike look good.
To end on a happy note, how awesome were Spike and Buffy in the end? Double teaming the Master, fighting side by side, being awesome? And the "dark place" line fully represents the best of the late season Spike/Buffy relationship = he was the person she could be alone with, with whom she could tell what was too painful or too dark to share with everyone else. I think the phrase was used almost synonymously with "you were my safe place": this is the positive light the phrasing implied, and it fully recognizes the scope and breadth of what the Spuffy relationship is to us. It's a line I'm extremely impressed with, because it's what we've been saying for a long, long time. I'd like to think that people's letters to Scott helped influence that particular line, because like "my hero" it is so key to why we love Spuffy.
I think I just wrote my reaction post. May just cut and paste like a lazy bum and point to your LJ and say "Lauren made me do it."
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And Twilight sucked. Any discussion of where S8 fails has to discuss that the spakking is quite possibly some of the worst shit ever put down in comic book form.
But just because we have overreaching meta-y criticisms doesn't mean we can't squee over small character moments, and that's what this issue did well: Spike and Buffy were Spike and Buffy, rather than the dickwad formerly known as Angel and This Year's Bella Swann. I still can't take any of her dialogue to Angel in #36 seriously because it's so obvious she's out of her fucking mind (wow, I have a potty mouth this morning, don't I?) because the next thing we see of her in #37 is sex fantasies with Spike and calling him the place where she can be safe and dark. Sorry, BR forum, but I find you still delusional and amusing in the same way I find Jackass amusing: I can't look away, no matter how much I want to.
Scott Allie won my heart this issue, and I wish I could take away the tag calling him a douchebag. He gets the gender reversal, and Emmie's been telling him "MOAR!" so he's hearing that that is why we love Spike and Buffy - because they challenge the norm and have an inherent intimacy that no one else has. He was a big boy in the lettercol this month, so gotta give props where props are due. He manned up, realized he wasn't being professional, and this month I think I'm gonna point to his answer and ask if Georges Jeanty has anything else he'd like to man up to (damn, I'm gonna need a Slayalive account now, right?).
Angel is still the dickwad of the moment. And I have a My Little Pony plastic flying Lion toy somewhere in storage I wish I could find so I could make snarky icons calling Angel "DADDY!" because there is SO MUCH LOLZ with Angel's being such a dupe. I laughed mean-spiritedly when the kitty-bird-lion thing showed up, I'll admit it, and no one should be surprised by that. Gotta wonder where Connor is and if we'll actually see anything addressed as to why AtS Angel is nowehere to be found. The plus side of dickwad Angel: He makes Spike look good.
To end on a happy note, how awesome were Spike and Buffy in the end? Double teaming the Master, fighting side by side, being awesome? And the "dark place" line fully represents the best of the late season Spike/Buffy relationship = he was the person she could be alone with, with whom she could tell what was too painful or too dark to share with everyone else. I think the phrase was used almost synonymously with "you were my safe place": this is the positive light the phrasing implied, and it fully recognizes the scope and breadth of what the Spuffy relationship is to us. It's a line I'm extremely impressed with, because it's what we've been saying for a long, long time. I'd like to think that people's letters to Scott helped influence that particular line, because like "my hero" it is so key to why we love Spuffy.
I think I just wrote my reaction post. May just cut and paste like a lazy bum and point to your LJ and say "Lauren made me do it."