Is this a semantics thing? I honestly don't know. I've tried to work it out for months and months now, and I can't figure out what's wrong... And no, it's not the lack of Spike. I watched from the beginning and I always loved Buffy. She was the center of the show, and I liked her happy, I liked her sad, I liked her with Angel, I liked her with Riley (even though I found him extremely dull), I liked her with Spike (obviously - but she needn't spend the rest of her life with him), and when she's harsh & 'cold' (in S6 and 7 esp) my heart bleeds for her, because I understand the pain she's in, and how difficult things are for her. I don't have a canon!Buffy icon, so this Spike one will have to do, but the sentiment is the same - I love Joss' Buffy, I love Marti's Buffy, and David Fury's and DeKnight's and Petri's... She was just Buffy, and she was a hell of a woman. She was the one.
But Comic!Buffy is someone I can't get a grip on. And when the emotional center of the whole thing is inaccessible, I find it terribly hard to care about it. Of course it doesn't help that the story isn't particularly interesting to me, but (f.ex.) even during the most dull parts of the Initiative-plot I could enjoy the show.
When it comes to fic, the author's interpretation influences the writing, and it's just a case of working out how well your own interpretation overlaps, to see how much you'll enjoy it (disregarding such matters as plot, writing style etc. for the sake of my point). But my favourite writers were those on the show - canon is my touchstone, always. I'll defend anything - the AR, Kennedy, Caleb, even AYW - because that's the show. That's what matters. I can't defend the comics. I don't even like them. And it makes me terribly, terribly sad. I didn't think it was *possible* to not care about Buffy.
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I honestly don't know. I've tried to work it out for months and months now, and I can't figure out what's wrong... And no, it's not the lack of Spike. I watched from the beginning and I always loved Buffy. She was the center of the show, and I liked her happy, I liked her sad, I liked her with Angel, I liked her with Riley (even though I found him extremely dull), I liked her with Spike (obviously - but she needn't spend the rest of her life with him), and when she's harsh & 'cold' (in S6 and 7 esp) my heart bleeds for her, because I understand the pain she's in, and how difficult things are for her. I don't have a canon!Buffy icon, so this Spike one will have to do, but the sentiment is the same - I love Joss' Buffy, I love Marti's Buffy, and David Fury's and DeKnight's and Petri's... She was just Buffy, and she was a hell of a woman. She was the one.
But Comic!Buffy is someone I can't get a grip on. And when the emotional center of the whole thing is inaccessible, I find it terribly hard to care about it. Of course it doesn't help that the story isn't particularly interesting to me, but (f.ex.) even during the most dull parts of the Initiative-plot I could enjoy the show.
When it comes to fic, the author's interpretation influences the writing, and it's just a case of working out how well your own interpretation overlaps, to see how much you'll enjoy it (disregarding such matters as plot, writing style etc. for the sake of my point). But my favourite writers were those on the show - canon is my touchstone, always. I'll defend anything - the AR, Kennedy, Caleb, even AYW - because that's the show. That's what matters. I can't defend the comics. I don't even like them. And it makes me terribly, terribly sad. I didn't think it was *possible* to not care about Buffy.