This may well make your eyes bleed

[magratpudifoot]

I'm currently catching up on all the media I missed while in OK and TX, so I've finally* read BS9 #7.  To that end:

OH MY TINKERBELL JEBUS WHAT WHAT WOTWOTWOT FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUU

HOW DOES THIS EVEN

BUT

WITH THE

WOT

EXCUSE ME WHILE I SCREAM INTO A PILLOW FOREVER

I thought I was having this reaction at the end of #5, but I had no idea.  SHIT WAS

Comments

[magratpudifoot]

I...don't entirely disagree with the author of that review, but I think he's made a LOT of assumptions and gotten angry about further assumptions he has extrapolated from his initial assumptions. For example, powerless? What? It's explicitly stated MANY TIMES in the time since the event that that particular group is not powerless. And I personally think that the twist only affects the "On Your Own" two-parter, so just #6 and #7. I don't think the events of #5 COULD HAPPEN if the #7 twist had been in effect since then. So, because the discovery that kicked off the main plot of this arc was at the end of #5, as long as I'm right about the timeline, there's no Tricia Helfer stuff*, and the possibility remains that the decision at the end of #6 will still be meaningful and give us some resolution.

I mean...like I said, I expected them to back off from the #6 decision, but that's more of an expectation founded in years of consuming OTHER media. It's fairly rare for Whedon to broach the subject of controversy without making a definitive statement about it, "Our Mrs. Reynolds" not withstanding. So...I'm hopeful. Which is an ODD thing to say, given what it is I am hoping for.

* It is incredibly difficult to address this without spoilers. I don't know why I'm even trying, other than to see if I can.