Also, I truthfully cannot figure out their deal with Buffy. They don't want her to grow up, but they keep saying that the story is that she's a twenty-something growing up (while writing her like a college freshman... and I'm being generous about that. Buffy in Season 4, 5, 6, 7 was infinitely more mature than Comics Buffy). It's like they don't actually want her to have any growth or make any progress so they leave her no-win situations where she turns into a swoony 'it's my twu wuv' Bella Swan or self-pitying (and passive) Bella Swan at the drop of a hat. Plus, honestly, it's like these writers don't like her very much.
NAIL, HEAD.
I thought she seemed more like a 14 or 15 year old in S8 but that could just be the artwork (esp Jeanty's - who the hell is this kinda-ugly kewpie doll and why do they keep calling her "Buffy"? *sigh*)
And the insistence on telling a story about what "ordinary 20somethings would do" (as with the party in S9.01 "20-somethings sometimes do wild and reckless things" blah blah) - that worked better on the tv show when they actually cared about the characters. Buffy is not an ordinary 20-something, esp by the end of the series.
She's not a girl anymore and she's old beyond her years - "died twice, saved the world a lot, and all I got was this lousy headstone". That doesn't necessarily mean "wise", but she's been through so many fresh hells in seven years (eight if you count her backstory) that trying to put her in the ordinary 20-somethings slot doesn't work. Nor (to me) does making her a failure and incompetent at absolutely everything she does or tries to do.
And also? Plenty of 20-somethings are very responsible and mature and focused on jobs, career, family, volunteering and activism. WHere the automatic equation of young adult = slacker, I have no idea.
what did an abortion or robot Buffy have to do with magic seeping out and Dawn dying?
Nothing - but then what did skinless Warren or Twilight/Twangel or the seed of magic and spacefrakking have to do with anything that came before? I suspect perhaps the writers get bored of their own stories, or decide, hey let's put ideas in a hat and write whatever we pull out! that's certainly how it comes across to me.
leading to her deciding she can't have a job because...reasons just... didn't work. Exactly what was the purpose of that?
Either they really think Buffy is THAT stupid and impractical, or they're unaware of their issues re: women and money. Why did Buffy ask for a paycheck for Giles in Checkpoint but NOT for herself? Esp with Dawn to raise on her own? I don't even think that occurred the writers re: the importance of economic independence as a feminist issue and the worldwide disparities between the number of women on this planet and the amount of labor we do vs the amount of wealth and property we actually call our own.
Why I'd ask the writers to even be aware of this shit is admittedly - asking a lot.
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Date: 2013-07-23 04:57 pm (UTC)NAIL, HEAD.
I thought she seemed more like a 14 or 15 year old in S8 but that could just be the artwork (esp Jeanty's - who the hell is this kinda-ugly kewpie doll and why do they keep calling her "Buffy"? *sigh*)
And the insistence on telling a story about what "ordinary 20somethings would do" (as with the party in S9.01 "20-somethings sometimes do wild and reckless things" blah blah) - that worked better on the tv show when they actually cared about the characters. Buffy is not an ordinary 20-something, esp by the end of the series.
She's not a girl anymore and she's old beyond her years - "died twice, saved the world a lot, and all I got was this lousy headstone". That doesn't necessarily mean "wise", but she's been through so many fresh hells in seven years (eight if you count her backstory) that trying to put her in the ordinary 20-somethings slot doesn't work. Nor (to me) does making her a failure and incompetent at absolutely everything she does or tries to do.
And also? Plenty of 20-somethings are very responsible and mature and focused on jobs, career, family, volunteering and activism. WHere the automatic equation of young adult = slacker, I have no idea.
what did an abortion or robot Buffy have to do with magic seeping out and Dawn dying?
Nothing - but then what did skinless Warren or Twilight/Twangel or the seed of magic and spacefrakking have to do with anything that came before? I suspect perhaps the writers get bored of their own stories, or decide, hey let's put ideas in a hat and write whatever we pull out! that's certainly how it comes across to me.
leading to her deciding she can't have a job because...reasons just... didn't work. Exactly what was the purpose of that?
Either they really think Buffy is THAT stupid and impractical, or they're unaware of their issues re: women and money. Why did Buffy ask for a paycheck for Giles in Checkpoint but NOT for herself? Esp with Dawn to raise on her own? I don't even think that occurred the writers re: the importance of economic independence as a feminist issue and the worldwide disparities between the number of women on this planet and the amount of labor we do vs the amount of wealth and property we actually call our own.
Why I'd ask the writers to even be aware of this shit is admittedly - asking a lot.