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Damn.
So, yesterday I linked to the cover for issue 7 of S8, because it featured a very handsome Giles. I was however v. tired and didn't actually read the summary. (Didn't realise that it was supposed to be Faith next to him either...)
As you probably know, I've been clinging to the Faith-arc, because there was no way Joss could mess *her* up, right?
Faith’s out to kill a Slayer.
Lady Genevieve Savidge is one of the most dangerous women on the planet. If she’s left unstopped, the British heiress will usher in the apocalypse. Faith has accepted Giles’s offer of an early retirement package for this gig — but the wetworks will have to wait till she’s infiltrated Savidge’s mystically protected estate.
THE HELL?? Unless that is some very clever misdirection (which is possible of course and is the one straw I'm clinging to), then I honestly don't know what happened to the character I love. Faith has a PROBLEM with killing people - there was this whole 'going evil and then seeking redemption' thing, right? But I could cope with that - just - if she was doing it 'for the common good'... rogue Slayers are dangerous, Faith knows that better than anyone. There could be interesting things done with that. But doing it 'for early retirement'???? What Faith would that be? The one who loved knitting and dreamt of having a house full of rug rats?
I am so baffled that... well I don't have the words. Maybe it's my cue to just walk away althogether. Sorry S8 lovers, but there's only so much I can put up with.
Maybe Joss got brainsucked by Glory?
*deep sigh*
At least Doctor Who has suddenly become awesome and brilliant and full of layers and themes and stuff, exploring all sorts of fascinating issues. *goes back to SHINY show and CANON Buffy*
ETA: Ok, so maybe it will be more like follows:
Giles: I need a Slayer dead. Faith, I trust you can do it, you have killed before. Also you already have a criminal record.
Faith: 'Scuse me?
Giles: I have prepared a generous retirement package for you, as a thank you for services rendered. If however you decide to decline, the police might just discover where you've been hiding out...
Or, you know, something along those lines. Stupid comics.
As you probably know, I've been clinging to the Faith-arc, because there was no way Joss could mess *her* up, right?
Faith’s out to kill a Slayer.
Lady Genevieve Savidge is one of the most dangerous women on the planet. If she’s left unstopped, the British heiress will usher in the apocalypse. Faith has accepted Giles’s offer of an early retirement package for this gig — but the wetworks will have to wait till she’s infiltrated Savidge’s mystically protected estate.
THE HELL?? Unless that is some very clever misdirection (which is possible of course and is the one straw I'm clinging to), then I honestly don't know what happened to the character I love. Faith has a PROBLEM with killing people - there was this whole 'going evil and then seeking redemption' thing, right? But I could cope with that - just - if she was doing it 'for the common good'... rogue Slayers are dangerous, Faith knows that better than anyone. There could be interesting things done with that. But doing it 'for early retirement'???? What Faith would that be? The one who loved knitting and dreamt of having a house full of rug rats?
I am so baffled that... well I don't have the words. Maybe it's my cue to just walk away althogether. Sorry S8 lovers, but there's only so much I can put up with.
Maybe Joss got brainsucked by Glory?
*deep sigh*
At least Doctor Who has suddenly become awesome and brilliant and full of layers and themes and stuff, exploring all sorts of fascinating issues. *goes back to SHINY show and CANON Buffy*
ETA: Ok, so maybe it will be more like follows:
Giles: I need a Slayer dead. Faith, I trust you can do it, you have killed before. Also you already have a criminal record.
Faith: 'Scuse me?
Giles: I have prepared a generous retirement package for you, as a thank you for services rendered. If however you decide to decline, the police might just discover where you've been hiding out...
Or, you know, something along those lines. Stupid comics.
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It actually took me a few moments to notice that Giles was in the picture as well. :-)
I think she'd be bored out of her mind living a 'normal life'
Maybe. I think she's a fairly complex character, though. Most people associate Faith with wild partying on the dancefloor - partly, I think, because that's how Buffy, Xander and Willow thought of her. But if you think about it, there are also plenty of scenes of Faith sitting alone in her room reading comic books or watching TV, exercising by herself in a corner of the prison yard or out in Buffy's garden, going down to the basement to avoid the crowd of Potentials, and generally being self-sufficient. I think a lot of her wild girl attitude was an act - fooling herself as much as anyone else that she was tough and she Didn't Care; and after a lifetime of (presumed) misery and powerlessness she was revelling in her new Slayer strength and the apparent freedom from any consequences that it brought her.
And of course, she had a poisonous envy of exactly the kind of normal life she thought Buffy had and she didn't - and alternated between jealousy of Buffy and self-hatred for 'not being worthy' of such a lifestyle herself. Redeemed Faith might well be ready to accept that she does deserve a normal life, after all.
So I can imagine a scenario where she's now fed up with the killing and danger, but Giles offers her a devil's bargain of One Last Job. It's one of the classic stories, after all. But I said I wouldn't speculate, so I'll stop there...
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Different priorities and all that...
I think a lot of her wild girl attitude was an act - fooling herself as much as anyone else that she was tough and she Didn't Care
Oh that is very true. But still she always (or until she became consumed with anger and self-hatred) loved to fight. Much like Spike and for pretty much the same reasons...
It's one of the classic stories, after all.
Isn't it just? And I don't like it. Not the way it is presented anyway - I hope Faith's going to try to redeem her.