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Post by VampSlayer on Aug 3, 2010 21:11:27 GMT -5
Yeah, not too sure on the Dawn situation. I doubt she'll die. I really like these covers, though. I'm guessing that the next two covers will have Willow and Giles somewhere on them, since this arc is kinda doing that. Spike, Buffy, Xander and Dawn, ect.
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Post by zamolxis on Aug 4, 2010 2:54:48 GMT -5
I love the Xander/Dawn cover even though I hate them together. As much as love Dawn, I have always wanted her 'key' powers to come into play. I so very hope that time travel is the main factor for next season.
Also, who does Angel have to answer too? The Master of Puppets punishing the servant for a bad job or the servant saving his sorry-ass ? Great covers and extremely confusing blurbs!
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Post by Hellbound Hyperion on Aug 4, 2010 3:23:37 GMT -5
I think Dawn "dying" is a mislead. And I don't think pregnancy is in play either. At least, I won't believe it until I see it.
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Post by Billie Erin on Aug 4, 2010 5:15:18 GMT -5
In all honesty I don't know if it's likely that Dawn will die, but I'm pretty sure that one main character has to (I think I read it in one of the Q&As I'm terrible at remembering where I heard stuff) and I don't particularly like Dawn so I'm putting my money on her
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Post by Skytteflickan88 on Aug 4, 2010 6:38:42 GMT -5
I haven't looked at the covers, but I have a question about how they're allowed to be used. Will I have to turn off the signature function to be sure that I won't be spoiled by someone using it in a banner? How strict are we on that? Are they so spoilery everyone will get "Can't use that, people will be spoiled" or is it the small kind of spoiler, so people will use it without thinking, while still ruining a surprise for me?
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Post by AndrewCrossett on Aug 4, 2010 7:39:18 GMT -5
Re: the "seed" reference... anyone think that broken egg thing we saw in Buffy's "closest betrayal" vision in Anywhere But Here could be the seed? This would fit in well with the idea of one of Buffy's friends joining forces with one of her enemies.
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Post by Billie Erin on Aug 4, 2010 7:52:51 GMT -5
^^^I really like that idea. I think it's possible
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Post by -'Goldilocks on Aug 4, 2010 10:10:47 GMT -5
So I've been thinking. The person that turned to the 'dark side' as it were, could even be Dawn? And just because Dawn's eyes are closed dosnt mean she's dead, she could quite easily be just knocked out. But Yay for Sunnydale! This could mean we get old characters who have either died or left come back like Cordy, Jenny, Joyce, Tara etc.. I hope Harmony is still a vamp after the 'move' though
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Post by veiriti on Aug 4, 2010 10:21:52 GMT -5
I love the Xander/Dawn cover even though I hate them together. As much as love Dawn, I have always wanted her 'key' powers to come into play. I so very hope that time travel is the main factor for next season.
Also, who does Angel have to answer too? The Master of Puppets punishing the servant for a bad job or the servant saving his sorry-ass ? Great covers and extremely confusing blurbs! Loved it! And I think "the servant" deserves some punishment after all! And yeah, great covers! I like that idea either! I dislike the whole “Buffy is pregnant” idea… I don’t want the plot to turns into a B/A love story – B/A flaying f@$k, Buffy pregnant with Angel’s mystical child, etc… it’s soo boring…
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Post by D'Hoffryn on Aug 4, 2010 11:16:15 GMT -5
I don't think dawn is in any danger I think she is passed-out maybe to tired as her powers are finally reveled. the monks wanted to use her powers for good and maybe now she is older and certian things have happend (lost her virginity, found true love) now she is ready to once again be the key.
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Post by angelsclone on Aug 4, 2010 11:24:47 GMT -5
why must it be buffy that is pregnant.. considering dawn and xander are sharing a cover and they have to protect "the seed".. why can't the seed... the prince.. be dawn and xanders baby?.....
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Post by Eric on Aug 4, 2010 11:46:41 GMT -5
I haven't been keeping up with S8 coverage lately (I didn't much before, either), but I've been convinced for a while that it's going to be Xander that dies. Look at the Twilight symbol. It might be a stretch, but it does vaguely resemble one right eye, a frowney mouth and a big slash or cut on the neck. Remember the dream Buffy had at the beginning of the season? Xander's head fell off.
Maybe when/if Dawn dies, Xander sacrifices himself to resurrect her. He obviously can't do something like that himself, so perhaps he gets involved with this Twilighty business.
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Post by Billie Erin on Aug 4, 2010 12:40:18 GMT -5
^^^ But I think it was Mr Allie in the Q&A session, (it was somebody in a Q&A session) said that Buffy was sort of right about what the Twilgith symbol was and she said a beautiful sunset. Plus I think he's just too central a scoobie. He, Willow and Buffy need to remain constant in myopinion, and I believe Joss said something similar in the audio commentary for the last episode of Buffy season 7
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Post by richie on Aug 4, 2010 13:09:38 GMT -5
ok, i saw the covers and i think its one of the most cool so far.... i like the direction the story is going.... and for dawn dying i think this gonna happen by the end of 37... and the them xander will be really pissed off, cause cause of buffy, anya, renee, tara, and now dawn have died because of buffy. xander make a pact or something to travel throught time and them buffy will go with him to try to save her? and them we'll discover that she's the only way to avoid the twilight... them by them end of the season she will definetly die... and them every one will separate.... giving the mutiple comics on season 9.... of something like that.... now about protectin the seed... no clue.... maybe dawn is pregnant and when she definetly dies she'll give birth to the "Prince".... we already saw speed pregnancy on this universe....
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Post by CowboyGuy on Aug 4, 2010 20:57:28 GMT -5
I could be that the red gem-thing is simply "the seed". Usually things are literal in the Buffyverse. I think it would be quite cool if they solution to this whole thing turns out to be an actual conduit or object that could be destroyed.
The seed for what though? A new universe? The universe itself? Reality as we know it?
We already know it gets broken, whatever it is. (from BTVS#10). So "the seed" is destroyed, Buffy is left beaten and broken, betrayed. I imagine that the Season, everything will end during the last gleaming light of a beautiful sunset, and Season 9 will start in darkness.
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Post by BlueJay on Aug 4, 2010 23:05:22 GMT -5
"Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light / What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?"
Like I said before, I think Dawn's keyness comes into play this season and I'm pretty sure her death may either happen or be something the Scoobies will prevent. Plus Xander's girlfriends never last long. Considering how we're all supposed be in tears by the end of this season, I'm guessing Dawn may die by sacrificing herself like Buffy did in "The Gift". It'd be a nice turn around. Besides, the Scoobies are going back to Sunnydale, presumably in Season One. Dawn was still a ball of energy during this time. The Key hasn't been made into a human yet. My guess is that Dawn won't be present during the Scoobie's visit to the past. And probably whatever they do may affect the present and future, effectively "killing" Dawn. There's a lot of ways the story can play out. I'm excited.
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Post by krazyxxxdj on Aug 5, 2010 1:45:27 GMT -5
Well, I'll throw in an observation/speculation, but it probably won't be right, nothing I've guessed at this season has been.
The Xander/Dawn cover looks like it's in a cave, I keep wondering if it's ever going to come back around to where she's lying on the ground "betrayed" or why that monster in her dream was dead in a cave (i think in #3), i wonder if any of that is significant or we'll see it happen. Maybe it's in Sunnydale. On the other hand, The cover for the TPB recently has Angel holding Buffy in a cave, and there was nothing relevant to that.
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Post by Dorotea on Aug 5, 2010 20:36:36 GMT -5
The most important ([IMHO) fact in the spoiler covers is on the Jeanty cover - unless Georges simply missed it. Buffy is still in her #35 outfit - that she dreamed for herself while in Twilight - the bluish looking chain-mail armor. Meaning the entire issues 36-37 either take place very quickly or are out of 'present ' timeline somehow. What's interesting is that on 37 cover Buffy has an entirely different outfit - and that's the issue related to 'throwback' to SunnyD. So, likely there is something happeneing very quickly in 36-37 - or there is a time slip. Dawn's survival chances actually went up after the 38 cover - or at least they are very high. And yes, the 'betrayal' plot resolution has been moved to 38-40. Interesting. Not surprised that Angel is being 'punished' for his Twilight storyline at all - the community craves it, and it is actually something I have anticipated since 34. Yeah - and I kinda thought Spike's heroics - fighting 'back -to - back' with Buffy are sort of funny - if you consider that she is strong enough to defeat three Goddesses and he is still a regular vamp with no uber powers - he might be more of a liability to her at this point since she would have to protect him from uber-demons that poured out of the dimensional cracks - but it sure looks pretty.
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Post by veiriti on Aug 6, 2010 1:59:13 GMT -5
The most important ([IMHO) fact in the spoiler covers is on the Jeanty cover - unless Georges simply missed it. Buffy is still in her #35 outfit - that she dreamed for herself while in Twilight - the bluish looking chain-mail armor. Meaning the entire issues 36-37 either take place very quickly or are out of 'present ' timeline somehow. What's interesting is that on 37 cover Buffy has an entirely different outfit - and that's the issue related to 'throwback' to SunnyD. So, likely there is something happeneing very quickly in 36-37 - or there is a time slip. Dawn's survival chances actually went up after the 38 cover - or at least they are very high. And yes, the 'betrayal' plot resolution has been moved to 38-40. Interesting. Not surprised that Angel is being 'punished' for his Twilight storyline at all - the community craves it, and it is actually something I have anticipated since 34. Yeah - and I kinda thought Spike's heroics - fighting 'back -to - back' with Buffy are sort of funny - if you consider that she is strong enough to defeat three Goddesses and he is still a regular vamp with no uber powers - he might be more of a liability to her at this point since she would have to protect him from uber-demons that poured out of the dimensional cracks - but it sure looks pretty. Why do you think Spike’s is still a regular vamp with no super-powers? Everything is possible in the Whedonworld Anyway, with or without powers Spike never would run away of the good fight.
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Post by Dorotea on Aug 6, 2010 10:29:03 GMT -5
I actually agree with you - not everything is that simple about this cover was the point of my post. Indeed it is a homage to the end of #35 - only with Angel being replaced by Spike in the fight - quite possibly with super-Spike. And we would have had two issues by then ( 36 and 37) with stuff happening and nothing moving forwards - at least nothing scenery wise - on the cover for 38 there is the same scene with fighting the uber demons as it was at the end of 35. Curious? I assume what is depicted is not necessarily what is literally happening 'on the ground'. Compare this cover with Jeanty's cover for 35 for example - Buffy turning and walking away from her 'family'.
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