In the light of the latest revelations about Buffy in Season 9, I've been re-visiting my thoughts about the end of Season 8, and specifically the Retreat arc and when Buffy was Chosen by the Twilight prophecy to be the creatrix of a new universe. This led me to thoughts about power, parenthood, and Buffy's moral certainty - specifically that ( Read more... )

LJ's been quiet lately. Too quiet. So here's a really noisy fic to liven things up...

Title: Trigger Discipline
Characters: Buffy, Kennedy, Willow
Setting: early S8
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 2436

Summary: Buffy's friends have been trying to persuade her that she needs to get over her irrational fear of firearms.

(Author's Note: I'm from Britain. I've never ( Read more... )

So, Emmie just said to me, "If you should feel the need to write a Season 8 fanfic where kittens are flying fighter jets while fighting the demons in "Last Gleaming", that would be cool." So how could I resist a challenge like that?

Of course, I had to write the fic with LOLcats rather than, you know, prose. How else?

Title: Rockets Blazed Through ( Read more... )

So; it's over. The last issue of Season 8 had a bittersweet feeling to it, which seems appropriate to the ending of something that's lasted so long and aroused so many passions, both for and against. In this review I'm going to talk about the issue itself for the most part. Reflections on the season as a whole will come later once it's had a chance ( Read more... )

I had to struggle through snow that came halfway up to my knees to get this issue of Season 8. I hope you all appreciate my sacrifice. :-)
( Review of 8.39 'Last Gleaming' Part 4 )

While I'm finishing my review of 'Last Gleaming' Part 4, here's a nice, easy poll question for you to be thinking about, because I'm curious.

Poll To forgive is an act of compassion
While for those of you who are already sick of hearing about season 8, here's another and completely non-Buffy-related poll question for you instead. It's based on an argument currently waging over on rpg.net ( Read more... )

This post is in the nature of an experiment, and I'd be interested to hear people's views of it. One of the (many) complaints I've often heard about Season 8 is that people don't like the comics format: they can't get into it, they don't understand it or they just don't like it. It can be a handicap to discussing the stories, their plots and ( Read more... )

So, this is the antepenultimate issue of Season 8, and it seemed to be mostly building the action and tension up to the big climax rather than having a lot of characterisation and relationship elements. So will that mean there's less for me to talk about in the review? We'll see...

( Review of 8.38 'Last Gleaming' Part 3 )

Aww. Connor has a younger sister now. How sweet. Also, all this talk of gates and keys reminded me of this little snippet:

Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate. Past, present, future, all are one in Yog-Sothoth. He knows where the Old Ones broke through of old, and where They shall ( Read more... )

I've generally not attempted before to predict how Season 8 will end, preferring to wait until we had more information. But it seems to me that enough cards are on the table now that's it's safe to hazard a guess. Of course, I'm probably going to be completely wrong, but you never know... and this explanation does seem to account for most of the ( Read more... )