Do you think the comics are canon?

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Go take jamalov29's very simple poll!

(Incidentally, how many people consider the movie canon? Because I certainly don't. And the movie is *much* closer to the show than the comics. There was more to the show than Joss - as is by now blatantly obvious! *g*)

ETA: Actually - what do y'all think about the movie in canon terms? Joss disowned it, yet it is obviously where everything started, right down to (S)Pike.

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Hi,

here's a couple of links for you to work with. There's a LOT of fic to wrk through, but I promise you, it is well worth it. But, fair warning, there is NO Spike, or Angel so,if you cannot bear to be without them...

- The Chosen @ http://www.btvschosen.com/

- The Wolf Pack @ http://www.jetwolf.com/wolfpack/index.php

The Chosen is all about the core of what made the Scoobies magical. I mentioned early on after starting to read the series, the absence of Spike, but I was able to handle it because, while I much appreciated Spike on AtS, ultimately I came to wish they hadn't done it, and left my hero to die a hero's death.

Given that, I hope you will give it a shot. Take your time because, rather like the works of Shakespeare, or poetry, you have to take your time to appreciate it. It unwinds, and weaves around you.

Exactly like the world of Buffy the Vampire Slayer did, once I started to watch it.

Or Doctor Who, Star Trek & the books of Anne McCaffrey, Marion Zimmer Bradley, and especially CJ Cherryh.

She's only a fan writer but, somehow, JetWolf managed to capture, for me, the spirit of what made Buffy's world so magical. Even Tara wouldn't have been enough. Quite remarkable really, when you consider that Giles was the only character, amongst the original four, that I really liked.

I don't include Cordy, because she really didn't become a core character until S2. Buffy was the whiny rich bitch, for me, in that first season; Xander was far too good looking AND well built, physically, to make a believable geek, and there was something uncomfortable about, what I saw, and still do in many ways, Willow's manipulative childishness.

More later, because the library is closing.

Still under Willow & Tara's spell,
Ray.

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here's a couple of links for you to work with. There's a LOT of fic to wrk through, but I promise you, it is well worth it. But, fair warning, there is NO Spike, or Angel so,if you cannot bear to be without them...
Oh I like the Scoobies, it's more *time* that is a factor, unfortunately. But I shall bookmark it, since I do love quality fic, and if I ever get a proper chunk of time I shall certainly have a look. (That's the problem with being a fic writer, as well as a reader. The more you write, the less time you have to read. :( But you've been most persuasive, so who knows!)

Thank you.