More reviews.

[elisi]

So, I finally got myself a S8 icon (by dreamer1104) - but then this is by a mile my favourite scene so far.

Anyway, more linkage - quite a lot of musing about feminism etc.:

Brief thoughts by kathyh.
Deep thoughts by molly_may.
Deep thoughts by thedeadlyhook.
Response to the Deep Thoughts by stormwreath. (Now with nifty icon! Check it out! *g*)
Summary and analysis by moscow_watcher.
Thoughts by ibmiller.

ETA3: Nifty comparisions between comic and show images. (stormwreath again!) (Who is the mystery guy...?)

ETA: Saw that this post was rec'd in The Herald, so here are previous links:

Review by stormwreath
Review by yourlibrarian.
Review by aycheb.
Very funny review by shapinglight.

I think the best things about the comics is how we're all reading them, and thus discussing the same topics. Yes there's bitching about the art, but most of the posts delve a lot deeper. Even if Joss might disappoint, fandom does not.

Actually - a thought on the whole feminism thing. Both molly_may and thedeadlyhook comment on how all the men (even Andrew!) seem to be cool and in charge, whereas the Slayers are just a bunch of girls that need someone to lead them. And Buffy is all tied down and helpless...
I think (as thedeadlyhook said) that this is where the comic format is really awkward. One issue is only about 1/4 of an episode, so in effect we have only just seen half of ep. 1 of S8 - and if there's anything that usually happens in ep 1 it's Buffy faltering, doubting herself etc - and then turning around to save the day at the end. So I'm stubbornly holding out hope that at the end of issue 4 Buffy will be The Hero, showing the rest of them how it's done.

ETA: I was going to make more points, but stormwreath made a lot of them already. So I'll go sit in the lovely sunshine.

Also I want Andrew's daft speech to have some sort of meaning - clothes make the man? Don't judge by appearences? Guess I'll have to wait and see, but the thing takes up an awful lot of space for no apparent reason.


Also a Happy Birthday to azdak and sarahlynnl! Hope you had/have fabulous days! :)

Comments

[aycheb.livejournal.com]

Stormwreath just made all the serious points I would have wanted to so am mercifully free to babble on about clothing. Where there’s clothing there’s lint, possibly evil lint clearly lint is very important here. The raw material of spinners, its presence in Buffy’s nightmare bedroom ties in nicely to the whole “Sleeping Beauty” scenario. Is it significant that the failed sacrificial dagger means her finger was never pricked and she’s really not 16 any more.

Andrew mentioned costumes in a Star Wars context I suppose he could have been meaning to segue in to a point about how as a Jedi is to his lightsaber, a slayer is to her stake and guns are for imperial loser stormtroopers. But outfits, Xander only has two and duckie pajamas by night so Buffy’s nightwear is to provide an equivalent contrast? It’s more Janet Raeger than what she used to sleep in on the show but her daywear though fetching is more functional than of old and a change always conducive to a rest.

[elisi]

Where there’s clothing there’s lint, possibly evil lint clearly lint is very important here.
Yup! Clothes, appearance etc obviously play a role - I just want *more*! Getting tiny tidbits is very frustrating...

Is it significant that the failed sacrificial dagger means her finger was never pricked and she’s really not 16 any more.
Many thoughts... will ponder.