Buffy 8.13.

[elisi]

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Xander/Dracula FTW! I can't even... it is deep fried crack straight to the veins! Oh Joss, you really *did* watch Torchwood, didn't you? (ETA: I don't need to specify that clearly he took all the TW crack, but didn't learn from the good stuff, right?)

Comments

[mikeygs.livejournal.com]

It just plays into a delusion that if a character is a feminist then she naturally has to have sex with a woman at least once even if she's straight.

That's if you read into it. I really think it came down to 'let's have Buffy sleep with a woman, that'll sell some issues!' which might be even worse.

[ladycat713.livejournal.com]

It wasn't a sudden idea for them , they planned it from the beginning. You can see that with her thinking she misses sex and the kiss of true love. But it definitely was done for the sensation value to me so that they could go down in comic history as having the first straight female character to have sex with a woman. Not to mention the amount of attention they got in the press.

If they just wanted to have Buffy get involved with someone , break thier heart and eventually have that person betray her (which I think is where this is headed) then it just as easily could have been a Watcher in Training who wasn't killed by the bringers. But by making it a woman they get the attention.

[mikeygs.livejournal.com]

Oh, I think they were planning something, but I think making it sexual with Satsu was added later. I think I remember reading something like that in an interview with Joss, something along the lines that it wasn't his idea and he actually had to go back an issue or two and rewrite to try to make sense of it. Maybe I'm misremembering, but it makes sense since all of Buffy's fantasies were about men.

There are alot of up sides to it--fanboy-squeeing, it's not 'serious' so it doesn't alienate ships and it sells copies. But to me it also cheapens the comics even more.

[elisi]

But to me it also cheapens the comics even more.
I think that's a good thing. And I need a Xander/Dracula icon. I'm hoping BGF will make some soon! :)

[ladycat713.livejournal.com]

It's like they're taking a basic plot point and figuring out the worst way to bring it about.

Buffy is quite capable of breaking a young girl's heart either through ignorance or denial. Not knowing and being hard on all of them because she didn't know how to deal or being hard on Satsu (because she knew) because she didn't know how to deal. Instead we get a Buffy who first gives the responsible I'm straight , it'll never happen talk and then goes and sleeps with her anyway and gives the girl hope that her love can be returned.

For example with Dawn being a giant. They have Dawn dating a thricewise, then losing her virginity by cheating on him with his roommate (therefore betraying his trust and probably violating his room) , turns into a giant either because of her losing her virginity or because she lost her virginity and feels like a giant ho.And now she sits around with nothing to do with her new size and nobody seems overly concerned with fixing her.

They could have had Dawn became a giant because she lost her virginity, either just because of spilling blood that was in a blood vessel or that and her thricewise boyfriend. The boyfriend could've stayed by her side to support her and helped research a way to change her back .Then a way for Dawn's size to be useful could have come up and shortly after she was cured. No character assassination necessary and it's a good plot.

They could have had thier basic plot with no character assassination necessary. They're bashing thier own characters.