Buffy Season Eight

[doggypanter]

"...we're more hated and feared than the blood sucking undead..." -Buffy

Well he's gone and done it now hasn't he. Turned the franchise into the x-men (er... women). A group of super-human outsiders that are sworn to protect the very people that want them dead

Comments

[b_sides]

In fairness to Whedon, the cast were always very close in form to the X-Men with Buffy being very heavily based off Kitty Pryde, and the general interplay being a melange of X-characteristics (I would have said Xander for a somewhat insensitive mix of Iceman and Beast, for example)

This was fine in the series, where the subtext was, y'know, subtext. Literalising the issue in comics of all places is a smidgen misguided. That this is on top of the faintly ludicrous idea that the general populace would be okay with vampires murdering people on TV (which makes as much sense as Norman "Hey I'm the Green Goblin" Osborne running the USA)... It's a shame, because they already had the justification for the dislike in place very early on- the slayers, including Buffy, robbed a significant amount of capital to fund their operation...

[dragontail]

What he said...

Also: I like that Joss-in-the-ceiling gets referenced. Heh.