Your take on the arcs of the televised seasons is brilliant, thanks for a very good read. Great stuff on the improvisatory nature of the plots (basic structure there, but bits in the middle filled in) and the mirroring of Buffy’s own tactics in Joss’s writing style.
I don’t think that that’s a bad thing, necessarily – tight plotting is just one possible good out of many goods, and the free flowing feeling of many of the seasons actually appeals to me. While I love Babylon 5’s detailed plot arcs, I don’t think every show needs to be like that.
However, you’re right re not expecting too much in terms of all the loose ends being tied up. I think perhaps some of the emotional loose ends might be tied up – the whys and wherefores in terms of where the characters are at. Might, anyway. But I don’t think we’ll be seeing a secret structure revealed.
I’m enjoying the comics, although some of the more wandering elements go too far (introducing time travel into an already complicated set of circumstances felt frustrating – a lost-like introduction of new questions and elements when the existing elements needed more exploration).
The “crack” elements aren’t what bother me, more the fact that I feel like interesting stuff keeps getting introduced but not explored enough.
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Your take on the arcs of the televised seasons is brilliant, thanks for a very good read. Great stuff on the improvisatory nature of the plots (basic structure there, but bits in the middle filled in) and the mirroring of Buffy’s own tactics in Joss’s writing style.
I don’t think that that’s a bad thing, necessarily – tight plotting is just one possible good out of many goods, and the free flowing feeling of many of the seasons actually appeals to me. While I love Babylon 5’s detailed plot arcs, I don’t think every show needs to be like that.
However, you’re right re not expecting too much in terms of all the loose ends being tied up. I think perhaps some of the emotional loose ends might be tied up – the whys and wherefores in terms of where the characters are at. Might, anyway. But I don’t think we’ll be seeing a secret structure revealed.
I’m enjoying the comics, although some of the more wandering elements go too far (introducing time travel into an already complicated set of circumstances felt frustrating – a lost-like introduction of new questions and elements when the existing elements needed more exploration).
The “crack” elements aren’t what bother me, more the fact that I feel like interesting stuff keeps getting introduced but not explored enough.