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snick_backupAlas. I so enjoyed No Future For You, but Wolves at the Gate returns to the big awkward plots and random fanservice of The Long Way Home. Don't get me wrong, Drac was pretty much the best part (which must mean something, considering how little I enjoyed him in the show). But isn't the comic capable of developing even one interesting character of its own? Just one?
I think I've figured out my two main problems with the comics thus far. First, I'm bored and verging on oppressed by this whole army of Slayers thing. It's like S7, but in a castle! General Buffy, a faceless horde of girls with stakes, and various menaces that require battling beasties and tearing off on random quests to wherever, to find out whatever. I just don't like the dynamic. Plucky kids in the teens (and early twenties) standing against the forces of darkness? Yay! A high-tech lair, public relations scandals, and an exploration of the Lonely Leader Syndrome? Nay. Definitely nay.
Second, the way the comics are structured, there simply isn't time for the kind of character development I demand from my Buffyverse. The reason I liked No Future For You as well as I did was because it focused almost entirely on Faith, and took the time to get inside her head a little. But following the various entanglements and plot threads at Slayer Central leaves no time for that kind of thing. Renee? Satsu? They're cute and spunky and all, but I'd have exactly zero chance of separating their voices from those of any other one-dimensional walk-on. At least Andrew, for all his shallowness thus far in the comic, colorfully fills out his entire one dimension.
All that, coupled with the just plain zaniness of the plotlines and the Buffy and Dawn characterizations, makes me want to tell these folks to leave my beloved canon alone already!
And there wasn't even any Faith&Giles this volume. I'm beginning to think that the only good thing to come out of this mess will be Faith&Giles.
I think I've figured out my two main problems with the comics thus far. First, I'm bored and verging on oppressed by this whole army of Slayers thing. It's like S7, but in a castle! General Buffy, a faceless horde of girls with stakes, and various menaces that require battling beasties and tearing off on random quests to wherever, to find out whatever. I just don't like the dynamic. Plucky kids in the teens (and early twenties) standing against the forces of darkness? Yay! A high-tech lair, public relations scandals, and an exploration of the Lonely Leader Syndrome? Nay. Definitely nay.
Second, the way the comics are structured, there simply isn't time for the kind of character development I demand from my Buffyverse. The reason I liked No Future For You as well as I did was because it focused almost entirely on Faith, and took the time to get inside her head a little. But following the various entanglements and plot threads at Slayer Central leaves no time for that kind of thing. Renee? Satsu? They're cute and spunky and all, but I'd have exactly zero chance of separating their voices from those of any other one-dimensional walk-on. At least Andrew, for all his shallowness thus far in the comic, colorfully fills out his entire one dimension.
All that, coupled with the just plain zaniness of the plotlines and the Buffy and Dawn characterizations, makes me want to tell these folks to leave my beloved canon alone already!
And there wasn't even any Faith&Giles this volume. I'm beginning to think that the only good thing to come out of this mess will be Faith&Giles.
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Date: 2009-05-12 12:14 am (UTC)One of them is Faith&Giles, which I agree is completely and totally of the awesome.
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