Flipping a Shit (Happily)
OH MY GOD. JUST READ THE COMIC AND AM HAPPILY FLIPPING A SHIT BECAUSE IT IS PERFECT AND BEAUTIFUL, AND THE LAST TWO PAGES, ALDKFJALKDJFLADJFLAJDFK.
Like, I don't even feel the need to fic this issue because the Spuffy (and the Buffy & Dawn, Buffy & Robin, Nikki & Crowley, Spike & Dowling, EVERYTHING ELSE) already makes me so happy! (Still writing ( Read more... )
Like, I don't even feel the need to fic this issue because the Spuffy (and the Buffy & Dawn, Buffy & Robin, Nikki & Crowley, Spike & Dowling, EVERYTHING ELSE) already makes me so happy! (Still writing ( Read more... )
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I'm so glad. :)
It actually has me beyond worried.
ME, TOO. Part of me worries that there will be some huge, relationship-ending (insofar as any of the ships ever actually "end" in the Buffyverse) event later in the season, a la the Bangel spacefrak, but I honestly can't imagine what in-character trauma Joss could come up with; Buffy and Spike are just too much a part of each other now for any traitorous, hurtful event like that to be remotely realistic (*knocks on wood*; except for maybe if he knowingly slept with her while she was drunk? But calling that IC would be an extremely tenuous claim). So then part of me worries that Joss will kill Spike off b/c hey, that's the other way to end a relationship, but I don't think DH would let him do that b/c Spike is such a moneymaker and draw to the fans; I know I'd stop reading the comics if he were killed ( ... )
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I'd be unbelievably furious and offended if they had him rape her while he was sober and she was too drunk to consent, and if they were both drunk and it was consensual, I'd still be annoyed because how dare they do something like that off-page after so many years of waiting?? (I mean, I guess they could give us flashbacks, but STILL).
Because I just can't envision a situation where he willingly leaves her again, not after everything that's happened.
Ugh, yeah. I hadn't considered them simply moving him a different title (I heard the same rumors that they considered it), but that would be a relationship-ender, too. The implied apathy between Buffy and Spike, that they could finally part ways, would be almost worse than a traumatic event.
Their feelings. They are obvious. ;)
Seriously. I don't know why Chambliss called them unrequited in the first place, because they clearly are requited...the characters just don't know it; there's a
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Didn't notice that . . . very good eye. (Then again, I was reading it at double speed at midnight after a long day, so the only extraordinary thing I noticed was Nikki's giant Marvin Gaye poster).
SPIKE AND DOWLING ARE SO GREAT TOGETHER! I WOULD TOTES BE OKAY IF BUFFY AND SPIKE HAD A THREESOME WITH HIM.
I'm loving all the happy Dowling feels everyone's having! They can have a threesome in the treehouse Mari wants Dowling, Koh and Andrew to build!
I love that he recognizes how his mother and Buffy are different and would approach child-rearing differently.
Yes. Robin was all together more likable here than he was in the series. He takes Buffy seriously, and offers good advice.
Would Giles have reacted the same way as Crowley (only obviously out of parental love)? I think he would have.I can't help but think that Giles or her mom were the first people she would have wanted to talk to in this situation. Poor Buffy! No parental figures! I say we get Alaric from The Vampire Diaries and move him to San Francisco ( ... )
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It was really nice to see their affability! They seemed so cold and remote toward each other by the end of S7 (which totally made sense in that context, of course, but it's nice to see that they can move past it, too).
I can't help but think that Giles or her mom were the first people she would have wanted to talk to in this situation.
Definitely her mom, but I'd probably put Dawn and maybe Spike before Giles (post S7, at least; I didn't read S8 and don't know much about the Buffy & Giles relationship, although the fact that he left everything to Faith doesn't give me any confidence). Ergh, it's still so frustrating to think that he's dead. I mean, not that I was a particular fan of his anymore, but I want him to be there for Buffy! Which is actually how I think about "The Body," too; I don't care about Joyce herself so much as I care about Buffy losing her mother ( ... )
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My big issue with Joyce is "Becoming II" when she tells her daughter not to come home. That's pretty much unforgivable in my book, and I have a hard time respecting her anytime else. I've mellowed a lot over the years and now when I rewatch I try to look at situations from the maligned characters' POV, so I'd probably appreciate her more on a second run-through. I just don't care to try to find reasons to like her.
What a disservice to the characters and the story at large!
Yup yup yup. I'm trying to be optimistic and give Joss the benefit of the doubt, but it's hard because (a) the waiting period between issues is so long and (b) after what he did with pregnancy on AtS, I just don't think he deserves the benefit of the doubt!
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Although the idea of Joss handling a pregnancy storyline strikes fear in my heart. He lost all baby!fic privileges back on AtS. No babies for Joss.
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YES HE DID LOSE ALL PRIVILEGES. UGH.
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Me neither! I mean, they're neat and I have nothing against them, but there are way too many pictures and not enough words for me. I've read Persepolis and its sequel for a class (those are really good and enlightening), and in high school I tried Runaways because I'd heard such good things about it, but that's it (other than BtVS, of course). I haven't even touched the really famous ones like Sandman.
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