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My girlfriend read all the Buffy comics and gave me a condensed summary of the ending; I am now intensely grateful I gave up halfway through. Seriously, I can name about fifty pieces of post-series fanfiction that make more sense.
End of Angel S5 was not helped by the fact that actually, it was written on the fly. Joss was told maybe two-thirds of the way through the series that Angel was going to be cancelled at the end of S5 and he cobbled together an ending out of spare parts.
Everything I have heard about the Buffy comics makes them sound kind of "on crack". I have not read them, because after the first couple issues, I had too much difficulty understanding the comic medium and following the story.
I kept track of them through friend's posts, and now they don't sound particularly appealing at all.
I have started reading the Angel: After the Fall comics. Those are also supposed to be "canonical", at least up to a point where the title of the comics series changes to Angel: something else?? I have not finished those yet, but they are pretty good, for the most part. The writer of the comics introduces elements that are tied to some of his own non-Buffyverse comics series which I find distracting.
As for The Destroyer, I do reveal the aftermath of the events in the alley at the end of Season 5 of Angel, but not right away. The first part of Season 1 of TD is really to establish Connor in his own milieu before resolving what happened on AtS, although there is an explanation of what happened before then.
they really are much more... comic book pulpy than the series (which was already seriously on crack at times), it really breaks the immersion for me.
thanks for the link! it sounds interesting and i'm curious, though with how little fics i've been reading lately i'm not sure if I'll be able to read it, concentration-wise.
I think that Season 8 went on too long, and there's stuff in there that doesn't need to be, but overall I like it and appreciate it. I go out and by the issues brand new, whenever they come out. Now that the season is ending, they're also doing a pretty good job of tying all the loose ends together.
Angel: After the Fall is more tightly-plotted (and thus far shorter) than Buffy Season 8, but I dislike the art a bit more.
I liked the Butch-and-Sundance aspect of the ending, with the team going out all guns blazing, so to speak. The resolution of the story as seen in the comics was not particularly appealing.
Whedon has this recurring issue with keeping characters around way past their natural lifetime purely because he likes the actor/actress and wants to give them a paycheque. Laudable idea, yes, but you're not doing them or their careers any good if you're not providing them with stuff to do. Lorne is a good example of it, but so are Anya, Tara and Oz on BUFFY (I still don't know why Oz was a regular on BUFFY S3, he did pretty much nothing for the entire season).
I would have appreciated the Bolivian Army Ending if not for the fact the army being made of LotR rejects had me pointing and laughing at the screen. I never liked AtS's most fantasy-aspect, it was always so cheesy.
Good point about Whedon's anti-Dark Lord tendancy. ara and Oz certainly had a lot of time just being there instead of having use, and while I typically appreciated Anya's voice more, she was really just hanging around during S7 after Selfless, it was annoying. And yeah, Lorne. Shouldn't have been a regular.
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(I did kinda like the Spike miniseries, though.)
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oooh i didn't even know there was a spike miniseries!
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I kept track of them through friend's posts, and now they don't sound particularly appealing at all.
I have started reading the Angel: After the Fall comics. Those are also supposed to be "canonical", at least up to a point where the title of the comics series changes to Angel: something else?? I have not finished those yet, but they are pretty good, for the most part. The writer of the comics introduces elements that are tied to some of his own non-Buffyverse comics series which I find distracting.
As for The Destroyer, I do reveal the aftermath of the events in the alley at the end of Season 5 of Angel, but not right away. The first part of Season 1 of TD is really to establish Connor in his own milieu before resolving what happened on AtS, although there is an explanation of what happened before then.
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thanks for the link! it sounds interesting and i'm curious, though with how little fics i've been reading lately i'm not sure if I'll be able to read it, concentration-wise.
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And my fic isn't going anywhere, if you start to read and then wander off somewhere else.
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Angel: After the Fall is more tightly-plotted (and thus far shorter) than Buffy Season 8, but I dislike the art a bit more.
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Whedon has this recurring issue with keeping characters around way past their natural lifetime purely because he likes the actor/actress and wants to give them a paycheque. Laudable idea, yes, but you're not doing them or their careers any good if you're not providing them with stuff to do. Lorne is a good example of it, but so are Anya, Tara and Oz on BUFFY (I still don't know why Oz was a regular on BUFFY S3, he did pretty much nothing for the entire season).
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Good point about Whedon's anti-Dark Lord tendancy. ara and Oz certainly had a lot of time just being there instead of having use, and while I typically appreciated Anya's voice more, she was really just hanging around during S7 after Selfless, it was annoying. And yeah, Lorne. Shouldn't have been a regular.
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