Yeah, that's fair. Thank you - that's the best compliment you could possibly have given me. :)
This is what you can do with a powerful story with a (more or less) open ending: you plant a memetic seed, you create something that lives on in people's minds, with endless possibilities Oh this. This ad infinitum. I wrote about this over and over back in the early days of s8 - how every possibility carried equal weight post-Chosen, and how the comics were narrowing that down...
Because what he's essentially doing is saying "You're all wrong. I set this story free for you to use, but now I want it back again." Which, obviously, is their legal right. Indeed. But I wish he'd have done something more with it.
...I'm talking, of course, of Douglas Adams' clinical-depression-fueled Mostly Harmless, which ends with him literally wiping out all possible universes past and future and killing everyone we cared about. ;) Ah yes. Why couldn't Joss have done the same with s8...
Yeah, what happened to that, anyway? I haven't seen any fanwank yet to the effect that Season 8 ended in absolute defeat because Buffy forgot to find a prince to rescue, but I'm sure it's out there... 'Kill the prince' would have been more useful advice. Unless Giles was the prince?
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Thank you - that's the best compliment you could possibly have given me. :)
This is what you can do with a powerful story with a (more or less) open ending: you plant a memetic seed, you create something that lives on in people's minds, with endless possibilities
Oh this. This ad infinitum. I wrote about this over and over back in the early days of s8 - how every possibility carried equal weight post-Chosen, and how the comics were narrowing that down...
Because what he's essentially doing is saying "You're all wrong. I set this story free for you to use, but now I want it back again." Which, obviously, is their legal right.
Indeed. But I wish he'd have done something more with it.
...I'm talking, of course, of Douglas Adams' clinical-depression-fueled Mostly Harmless, which ends with him literally wiping out all possible universes past and future and killing everyone we cared about. ;)
Ah yes. Why couldn't Joss have done the same with s8...
Yeah, what happened to that, anyway? I haven't seen any fanwank yet to the effect that Season 8 ended in absolute defeat because Buffy forgot to find a prince to rescue, but I'm sure it's out there...
'Kill the prince' would have been more useful advice. Unless Giles was the prince?