BUFFY #5 - spoilery specs

[moscow_watcher]

"I imagine this issue of Buffy will leave fans talking, and some of it is gonna be unhappy..." (Scott Allie in the lettercol). Boy, was he right. "Some of it" was so unhappy that Whedonesque issued a new rule: people who don't like comics are not allowed to post in comics threads. "Post again and you're banned from this site forever. All this at

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[enzialla]

Oh, you forgot Willow as a canditate. Maybe she grew a penis, who knows with the way the story is going. I mean, really? Even the timeline doesn't work. Buffy has a party, 2 nights later she meets Severin, she sleeps at his place, fight him the next night, and then goes home and we have her roommates talking to her about moving out. So it's maximum 10 days since the party, and 6 months since the spacefrank. So the only candidate in logical conditions, can be somebody she's had sex before season 9 began. Or else it's a mystical pregnancy.

But of course I don't expect them to say anything better, for them it makes total sense to get a positive pregnancy test in 10 days. I'm really disappointed about the story. And they think we're total idiots, wow the fans guessed it so soon! Really guys? It ws screaming from the other side of the world, that's why we thought that maybe you would actually have some imagination and have something else in mind and that you were trying to misdirect us. Buffy's pregnancy with what was in #1 and the craps you revealed in interviews and Q&A screamed pregnancy and you think we're so idiots?

This is going back to basis? Buffy the one armed unmarried pregnant by a drunk one night stand. Sounds like a very bad fanfictin, doesn't it?

[moscow_watcher]

I admit, I was surprised to find out about Buffy's pregnancy. I didn't expect Joss to go in that direction.

But I'm afraid that Joss will use a baby storyline to subject Buffy to more torments - and it's a very delicate matter when a baby is involved. It's so easy to slip into tasteless horrors or silly fluff.

Hopefully it won't happen.

As to "back to basics" - they say this mantra at the beginning of every season. :)