*sigh*

[snick_backup]

I wish the comics would just go away. They make my flist unhappy, and while in the past they've been good for stirring new discussion and interest in the fandom, I'd say we're now well past the point of negative returns.

My reaction to the Big Important Character Death? Oh, thank goodness it wasn't Spike. Because that would have caused significantly more hue and cry than we're already getting. (Also I'm glad it wasn't Dawn, because however little I care about the comics, I'm apparently still capable of being upset by threats to my girl.)

ETA: spoilers in comments.

Comments

[brutti-ma-buoni.livejournal.com]

Heh. I think I'm supposed to be upset by said Important Death.

But honestly? My studious policy of ignoring the hell out of the comics because they're pretty dull is paying off so hard right now. *lalalala*

[snickfic]

Yeah. I'm actually pleasantly surprised that I'm not upset. You'd think I would be.

A sound and enviable policy. *nod*

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

Your feelings are my feelings. Right down to the relief that it isn't Spike or Dawn.

[snickfic]

*hugs*

I think I want to go work on my Giles/Faith fic now. (Only not, because I'm going to get a haircut and then I've been talked into attending the Ladies' Christmas Dinner at my church. But I'll be writing on it in spirit!)

[hexebusterjaxon.livejournal.com]

If it didn't happen in the TV series - then it didn't happen :)

[snickfic]

Yep. There's not a single event in S8 that I'm committed to. (I can ship Faith/Giles just fine on my own, thank you. *g*)

[next_to_normal]

You and me both, sister, 100%.

(It's funny how sporadically I care about the comics now. It tends to be the gross anti-feminist stuff or all the shit Joss has done to Buffy that makes me all ragey. The rest of it - including the Important Character Death - meh. Don't care.)

[snickfic]

I'm trying to think of the last time I actually cared about the comics themselves. It was the space frakking that did it, I think. That must have broken me forever after.

[next_to_normal]

Yeah, same here. I mean, I had opinions about Spike and Spuffy in the issues that followed, but they were more eyerolly opinions than ragey ones.

[dragonpaws.livejournal.com]

*splutters* They KILLED my GILES??? *edited for content*

Okay, so we know who I like. :) Do you have a link to some kind of summary of what happened, for the satisfaction of my morbid curiosity?

[snickfic]

But it was little paper Giles! I like my Giles in 3D, thank you. *g* (I confess, comics just aren't my medium. The writing would have to have been really incredibly fantastic to overcome that for me.)

There's a summary here. Also scans_daily has the key panels.

[dragonpaws.livejournal.com]

Thanks- now that I know the whole ridiculously stupid story, I care much less. :)

And I agree- comics really aren't my medium either. If nothing else, the dialogue is TERRIBLE here. You can't have Buffy-babble when you're working in panels and speech bubbles.

[gigi-tastic.livejournal.com]

WHAT KIND OF MIND FUCKERY IS THIS?!?!?! giles is dead?

GILES IS DEAD?!

*wakes up*

oh god i just had the WORST dream. buffy was having space sex and dawn was a giant horse doll and and and giles was DEAD. THANK GOD I LIVE IN THE REAL WORLD.

[ceciliaj.livejournal.com]

LOL

[gigi-tastic.livejournal.com]

the real world is so much better... well MY real world. we have singing boy wizards and naked spike and a lot of anya. yah my worlds fun.

[snickfic]

oh god i just had the WORST dream. buffy was having space sex and dawn was a giant horse doll and and and giles was DEAD. THANK GOD I LIVE IN THE REAL WORLD.

You know, "It was all just a dream" is usually a stupid cop-out ending. But I WOULDN'T MIND AT ALL if that's how S8 ended. Not a bit.

[gigi-tastic.livejournal.com]

i feel the same way. but THATS THE ONLY EXPLANATION! that or we've all been drugged within an inch of our lives. and you know what they say hugs not drugs and whatnot

[shapinglight]

I wish the comics would just go away.

Me too.

[snickfic]

*nods*

[silverusagi]

I wish the comics would just go away.

DITTO.

[snickfic]

*nods* Their existence is a blight on my existence, is what I'm saying. Bleah.

[ms-scarletibis.livejournal.com]

Important character death? Who, comic!Warren?

Cause really, any comic!character...I can't bring myself to give a piss about. But yeah--this isn't storytelling--this is selling out for money and cheap shock values, and I wish that some folks would stop treating it like it's the former...

[snickfic]

See here.

(On the upside, consensus seems to be that as a consequence of other big plotty events, Warren is also dead. Again.)

But yeah--this isn't storytelling--this is selling out for money and cheap shock values

That's sure what it feels like to me.

[ms-scarletibis.livejournal.com]

No, I knew you meant Giles--I was just saying that it's as noteworthy as Warren's (second time around, but should be official this time since he was made into a soup puddle of innards on a sidewalk) demise :)