The only thing I truly miss is Buffy. Buffy being the headbitch in charge, Buffy saving the day, Buffy growing up. It feels kinda like she's stuck and while it feels also very real for that phase of her life, I just need kickass Buffy to do awesome stuff.
I apologize for taking so long to reply to this! Because my response is YES YES AND YES. Where's my Big Damn Hero? My HBiC?
She has her moments in S10 but there still feels like something missing in this version. In both the script and the artwork, to her wardrobe (I still don't understand who Isaacs dresses Buffy, I really don't. The fact that she's better than Jeanty is a really low bar IMO.)
But even if the comics had the best writers and artists in the world working on it - and it doesn't (why does the A&F title always get the better artists and writers? Why can't we have nice things?) it would never be the tv Buffy, it would never be Sarah Michelle's Buffy (Sarah fought for the character and there's something to be said for that. Buffy in the comics is a puppet for Joss and the writers with no one to fight for her, except the fans who love the character. And we don't count anyway do we?)
It doesn't help that her primary dilemmas this season are all about the shipping. they tried to get away from that in S8 - 9 and that's not a bad thing in and of itself. But it gets back to Joss' decision to "deconstruct" the myth of the hero/superhero. But Buffy was already meant to deconstruct that mythology. Tearing her down, making her dumb, incompetent, a bank robber, a sex addict, a sociopath, incapable of being a leader, a lover, a friend, robbing her off her elegance, her womanliness, her intuition and her strengths, has led us to this. As much as S10 feels closer to the tv show at times, it still comes from the comics, not the tv show.
Joss is really is NOT about celebrating strong women, if all he can think to do is break them down, violate them, take away everything that made them interesting to start with.
Buffy has moved on - you have to look for her in other places. In the women of the Carbon Grey series and in the current Wonder Woman comics - both of which have amazing artwork - in Katniss Everdeen, and I'm kicking myself for not going to see Mad Max Fury Road in theaters so now I have to wait to see it on DVD.
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That did come out nifty didn't it? I shall see what I can do.
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Date: 2015-09-03 06:12 pm (UTC)I apologize for taking so long to reply to this! Because my response is YES YES AND YES. Where's my Big Damn Hero? My HBiC?
She has her moments in S10 but there still feels like something missing in this version. In both the script and the artwork, to her wardrobe (I still don't understand who Isaacs dresses Buffy, I really don't. The fact that she's better than Jeanty is a really low bar IMO.)
But even if the comics had the best writers and artists in the world working on it - and it doesn't (why does the A&F title always get the better artists and writers? Why can't we have nice things?) it would never be the tv Buffy, it would never be Sarah Michelle's Buffy (Sarah fought for the character and there's something to be said for that. Buffy in the comics is a puppet for Joss and the writers with no one to fight for her, except the fans who love the character. And we don't count anyway do we?)
It doesn't help that her primary dilemmas this season are all about the shipping. they tried to get away from that in S8 - 9 and that's not a bad thing in and of itself. But it gets back to Joss' decision to "deconstruct" the myth of the hero/superhero. But Buffy was already meant to deconstruct that mythology. Tearing her down, making her dumb, incompetent, a bank robber, a sex addict, a sociopath, incapable of being a leader, a lover, a friend, robbing her off her elegance, her womanliness, her intuition and her strengths, has led us to this. As much as S10 feels closer to the tv show at times, it still comes from the comics, not the tv show.
Joss is really is NOT about celebrating strong women, if all he can think to do is break them down, violate them, take away everything that made them interesting to start with.
Buffy has moved on - you have to look for her in other places. In the women of the Carbon Grey series and in the current Wonder Woman comics - both of which have amazing artwork - in Katniss Everdeen, and I'm kicking myself for not going to see Mad Max Fury Road in theaters so now I have to wait to see it on DVD.
(More icons like this one I'm using!)
That did come out nifty didn't it? I shall see what I can do.