Oh, I love your thoughts. Everyone has such great thoughts this week! You, Emmie, Maggie - haven't read Lexi's yet but I imagine her thoughts are also win - makes me so hopeful for this issue! (I haven't gotten mine yet so it will be a bit before I can do anything besides praise everyone else's reactions)
I absolutely adored Buffy calling Spike her dark place. I keep hearing about this line! It is, indeed, the perfect line. I don't really get why some are upset about it. Why does a dark place have to be negative? We sleep in the dark. We rest our heads on soft pillows and shut out the light, just for a few hours. We avoid the brightness when we need quiet, contemplation, peace. We share our most intimate acts and whispered words in the dark. When I think of a dark place, I think of someplace intimate, hushed, close. If Spike is that intimate space for Buffy, then my ship just won. The END. Write it down, motherfuckers. :D
They are wearing the same colors I hadn't noticed that - gosh, so cute.
“My hero.” Apparently, Scott Allie wrote that line. I will join you in the Let's All Congratulate Scott Allie on Finally GETTING IT hip hip parade. Seriously, Kudos to Scott and his writerly chops. I don't care if he champions Spuffy or not - clearly he gets their dynamic, and that is WIN. GO SCOTT
Besides, I still think Dawn can do better. Well I still think that Dawn should do Andrew, and always will - but sigh I will not get what I want either. *g* Dawn/Xander has grown on me marginally - it's the best I can do.
Angel is just a ginormous mess, and I feel so sorry for his fans As one of his fans, I am swiftly approaching a feeling of devastation where Angel is concerned. Since I haven't read the issue yet I don't have up-to-date thoughts, but everyone else in this story has a reasonable explanation as to why they've behaved as they have. Everyone, that is, except Angel. If I round out Season 8 feeling as though it has failed as a narrative, it will not be due to things I hear often like pacing or too many plot twists or too many characters. It will be the sum total of what has happened to Angel during these last 4 years. Honestly, it kind of breaks my heart. And if it's not explained, if it's not brought back 'round to where Angel departed from his own universe with solid reasoning appropriate to his character, then I am simply going to have to be done with the comics. Is that an ultimatum? Why yes, it appears exactly so. No amount of great Spuffy banter or side-by-side fighting or sweet Dawn scenes or Xander/Willow friendship scenes or Andrew superhero wannabe stuff will be able to make up for the EPIC FAIL that is Angel's characterization. I'm a small fish in a large pond filled with big fish in this regard, I know. I don't expect the crowd I run with will feel the heartbreak I do over what's been done to Angel. I'm used to being lonely in that regard, so it's ok. But I am sad. I miss my Angel. I wish I knew where he went, or knew that folks in charge care that he's gone.
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I absolutely adored Buffy calling Spike her dark place. I keep hearing about this line! It is, indeed, the perfect line. I don't really get why some are upset about it. Why does a dark place have to be negative? We sleep in the dark. We rest our heads on soft pillows and shut out the light, just for a few hours. We avoid the brightness when we need quiet, contemplation, peace. We share our most intimate acts and whispered words in the dark. When I think of a dark place, I think of someplace intimate, hushed, close. If Spike is that intimate space for Buffy, then my ship just won. The END. Write it down, motherfuckers. :D
They are wearing the same colors I hadn't noticed that - gosh, so cute.
“My hero.” Apparently, Scott Allie wrote that line. I will join you in the Let's All Congratulate Scott Allie on Finally GETTING IT hip hip parade. Seriously, Kudos to Scott and his writerly chops. I don't care if he champions Spuffy or not - clearly he gets their dynamic, and that is WIN. GO SCOTT
Besides, I still think Dawn can do better. Well I still think that Dawn should do Andrew, and always will - but sigh I will not get what I want either. *g* Dawn/Xander has grown on me marginally - it's the best I can do.
Angel is just a ginormous mess, and I feel so sorry for his fans As one of his fans, I am swiftly approaching a feeling of devastation where Angel is concerned. Since I haven't read the issue yet I don't have up-to-date thoughts, but everyone else in this story has a reasonable explanation as to why they've behaved as they have. Everyone, that is, except Angel. If I round out Season 8 feeling as though it has failed as a narrative, it will not be due to things I hear often like pacing or too many plot twists or too many characters. It will be the sum total of what has happened to Angel during these last 4 years. Honestly, it kind of breaks my heart. And if it's not explained, if it's not brought back 'round to where Angel departed from his own universe with solid reasoning appropriate to his character, then I am simply going to have to be done with the comics. Is that an ultimatum? Why yes, it appears exactly so. No amount of great Spuffy banter or side-by-side fighting or sweet Dawn scenes or Xander/Willow friendship scenes or Andrew superhero wannabe stuff will be able to make up for the EPIC FAIL that is Angel's characterization. I'm a small fish in a large pond filled with big fish in this regard, I know. I don't expect the crowd I run with will feel the heartbreak I do over what's been done to Angel. I'm used to being lonely in that regard, so it's ok. But I am sad. I miss my Angel. I wish I knew where he went, or knew that folks in charge care that he's gone.