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For the Spuffy fen...
‘Shadow Puppets’ issue 1 gives us what four issues of s8 haven’t.
Spike is weighing the options for and against going to Japan and taking out the new Smile Time puppets:
See? One line: ‘What if there’s an impromptu reunion with the Slayer while I’m away?’
It doesn’t stop him from going. I doubt she’ll be mentioned *at all* in the story to come. I *expect* Spike to hit on every hot-looking girl he comes across (and sleep with them if he can). But - we know that he thinks about Buffy. He might not imagine that he can actually ever have a future with her, and he might not ever try to look her up, but he does dream. She’s a part of his world, of his hopes for the future, whether those hopes become reality or not.
And none of this in any way compares to Buffy’s threesome fantasy. *That* was about sex - and heck, she had fantasies about sex with Spike before she slept with him. It tells us nothing about what she thinks or feels for either of the vampires in question, beyond the fact that she’d like to sleep with them again (and that she’s horny. That she loves them I’m taken as understood). Does she miss Spike? Mourn him? Does she even know he’s alive? Does she ponder a reunion, even if she’d not actually seek one out? We don’t know.
One line. One line is all it’d take. I don’t need a resolution, I don’t need a meeting or buckets of tears. Actually I'd really dislike buckets of tears. All I want is an acknowledgement that Spike matters(/mattered) to Buffy.
And what have I got? Buffy misses Teh Sex. *sigh* I much, much prefer the Buffy who’s dating The Immortal. At least she's getting some.
Spike is weighing the options for and against going to Japan and taking out the new Smile Time puppets:
See? One line: ‘What if there’s an impromptu reunion with the Slayer while I’m away?’
It doesn’t stop him from going. I doubt she’ll be mentioned *at all* in the story to come. I *expect* Spike to hit on every hot-looking girl he comes across (and sleep with them if he can). But - we know that he thinks about Buffy. He might not imagine that he can actually ever have a future with her, and he might not ever try to look her up, but he does dream. She’s a part of his world, of his hopes for the future, whether those hopes become reality or not.
And none of this in any way compares to Buffy’s threesome fantasy. *That* was about sex - and heck, she had fantasies about sex with Spike before she slept with him. It tells us nothing about what she thinks or feels for either of the vampires in question, beyond the fact that she’d like to sleep with them again (and that she’s horny. That she loves them I’m taken as understood). Does she miss Spike? Mourn him? Does she even know he’s alive? Does she ponder a reunion, even if she’d not actually seek one out? We don’t know.
One line. One line is all it’d take. I don’t need a resolution, I don’t need a meeting or buckets of tears. Actually I'd really dislike buckets of tears. All I want is an acknowledgement that Spike matters(/mattered) to Buffy.
And what have I got? Buffy misses Teh Sex. *sigh* I much, much prefer the Buffy who’s dating The Immortal. At least she's getting some.
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That's because she's a strong, empowered woman who thinks exactly llike Joss (who hasn't a clue about strong empowered women, other than they're really boys in skirts).
I really can't get excited about any of the comics, but admit that Shadow Puppets continues the Spike I saw on screen.
Glad the DVD arrived. I had a hilarious conversation with the gay, black, sub-postmaster about the fastest way to send it.
GBsPM 1st class 48p - probably will get there tomorrow.
Hesadevil Pigeon Post?
GBsPM *chuckle* How about Special delivery £4.20 - guaranteed next day delivery? What's the value of the contents?
Hesadevil Um - priceless, irreplaceable.
GBsPM It's Saturday, Special delivery might not deliver on Saturday. Guaranteed Saturday delivery, another £2.
Hesadevil - Pigeon Post it is, then.
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*snickers* I have a feeling he's just holding all 'ships at arms length, which is just silly. Refusing to acknowledge the past is never a good idea.
Shadow Puppets continues the Spike I saw on screen.
And that's all I want. I look on comics as sort of extra-pretty-deluxe fic. If well written (and drawn) I will love them as fervently as I love my favourite fics (if of course the story interests me). If not... well then I don't really care. (Although I do wonder what happened to Joss! Did someone break his brain?)
I had a hilarious conversation with the gay, black, sub-postmaster about the fastest way to send it.
Hee! The old postmaster at our ocal post office thought I was borderline batty - first there was sending a letter to 'Ms Poshykitty' and then a few months later I'd drawn a tentacle on the envelope for
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Which I still have.
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Nods. Acknowledging the past is part of character development IMO.
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For something a bit bigger we use the 48 hours service - I post it at 5.00pm and she gets it at 11.00am the next morning!
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