Buffy Stuff

[shipperx]

You know, most commentary about the most recent issue has been about the Bangel!Boink, and eh. Whatever. It's all very silly. I wasn't particularly bothered by it. Mostly, I laughed and snarked, so good times! A space boink is deliciously ridiculous. Add the disproportionate bodies and general cartoonishness of the art and it's priceless.

However, strangely, reading moscow_watchers summary of Giles's dialog bothers me.

Jeebus! Joss retconned the hell out of BtVS. (ETA:9.24.10 so subsequent interviews make relatively clear that Joss had crap all to do with retconning the mythology... other than allowing it to happen, which begs the questions of 'why' and 'does Joss even give a shit about his 'verse any longer?' if he allows someone else to make an entirely different mythology to supercede his own.)

The 'universe' created Slayers? What? It wasn't Shadowmen Watchers creating the first Slayer by infecting her with demon essence?

Nature created vampires? NATURE? The hell...? What nature would that be? Isn't the whole thing about vampire mytholgy (in any fictional universe) that they aren't natural? They're UNnatural! They're preternatural. They're outside the laws of nature (and, also according to Giles on the show they were the byproduct of the last Old One out the door).

The empowerment spell was an evolution? Evo... I can't even repeat it. Seriously? So we just don't give a shit what words mean any more? Metamorphosis, would work as an explanation. But a witch's white-magic spell changing young girls from one thing to another in the twinklilng of an eye is not evolution! (If it were, then I guess Darren Stevens 'evolved' every time Endora came to visit on Bewitched.) Giles is supposed to be an educated man, damnit. A librarian should know enough to understand when he's using a word incorrectly!

And he's feared this Twilight crap could happen but he didn't -- oh, I don't know -- TELL Buffy? Or Faith? Not in thirteen eight years?! He just kept that information to himself until he... found something that could kill a Slayer-God? I guess he never heard the old axiom about an "ounce of prevention..." And here's a thought, Giles, what about that potion you used to knock out Buffy's powers in the Watcher's cruel test? Remember that? Think that could have been used as a preventative measure before excrement hit fan?

Joss really did just say to hell with the show, didn't he? Way to trash his own mytharc.

I tend to hate the phrase about ski-jumping over a large, finned, toothy fish. But there's nothing here to overcome the flood of straight-up dumb.

I mean, if there is a large, finned, toothy fish beneath this pile of twaddle, it's not one from the version filmed by Speilberg. That had intelligence. This is more along the lines of the one that starred Micheal Cain long after all the creative juice had completely run out of the franchise, the one Micheal Cain said he only did for money.

(Yeah, yeah, comics don't make money. But I'm searching for a reason anyone would bother to make this )

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*sporfle*

And modern-day Germany that looks exactly like Germany of the 1880s.