iloveromy
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Post by iloveromy on Mar 4, 2010 9:35:17 GMT -5
Referencing Season 7, do you think Buffy is still cookie dough?
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bamph
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Post by bamph on Mar 4, 2010 10:32:23 GMT -5
Have Buffy's and Angel's feelings for each other all been manipulation going back to the start of the show?That's the impression be given to some I've talked to after reading the issue.That this issue is hinting that the Buffy/Angel romance isn't really real and never has been.That they were manipulated into falling in love all those years ago by some unknown force when Angel first saw her in the Becoming flashback and when finally meeting in season 1 and what is happening now with this secret history between slayers and vampires and the unholy power the two have gotten is the end game to all this manipulation.Is that the view we're supposed to come away with after the new issue or is that the wrong thinking about the Buffy/Angel romance?
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Post by maje77 on Mar 4, 2010 10:38:37 GMT -5
How long has Angel and Giles known that Buffy would be the slayer to gain this special power? With Giles it seems like it's been from the beginning of season 8. Which makes me wonder why he never shared any of his thoughts with Buffy, allowing her to be blind to what was going to happen and putting her at a big disadvantage. And for Angel, I would assume it's been even longer because this Twilight persona had to have taken a lot of time to setup & to come to power.
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Post by richie on Mar 4, 2010 11:27:50 GMT -5
i have a question! is there a meaning for being satsu with xander and willow in the last panel instead of dawn?
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Post by richie on Mar 4, 2010 12:03:02 GMT -5
i have another question... and if its been asked just ignore it please i read that after this arc we will have a break, and a one shot issue! are this really gonna happen?if so, have you decided about the one issue? sorry about the 2 straight questions hehehe
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Post by lmblack21 on Mar 4, 2010 13:07:22 GMT -5
Hey Scott,
Thanks, as ever, for answering our questions, I loved your last answer to my question.
So a followup. Joss is not mocking B/A - so yay for that, it did seem rather strange to me to view it that way. A lot of people who are not into B/A are invested in the idea that Joss resurrected the comics to subvert the B/A relationship. What do you make of the idea that some people have that Joss would suddenly decide the entire point of the comics is about Buffy's romantic relationship with Angel and that the most important thing for him to do is trash and/or subvert that relationship and the whole long history of Buffy/Angel?
-Luc
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Post by Maggie on Mar 4, 2010 13:19:40 GMT -5
Hi Scott,
Thanks for your willingness to do this. It must be tiresome to have fans try to drag you into our various squabbles. But I guess I'll offer the counter question to the one you just got. Do you think it's Joss's intent that we look at Buffy and Angel caught up in that unholy glow as an affirmation of their epic romantic soul-mates forever affair? Are we supposed to be happy that they go for epic happiness when there is, to put it mildly, a bit of a cloud hanging over them, what with all the dead bodies that Twilight has seemed to have something to do with and the unholy glow and all. It had seemed rather dark to many of us, hence the thought that maybe part of the story is moving B/A away from a Twu Wuv 4eva sort of teenage romance to something a bit more complicated.
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Post by neowhobaz on Mar 4, 2010 15:46:15 GMT -5
Is there time left in season 8 for "The Battle of Startbucks" mentioned in Fray?
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Post by Emmie on Mar 4, 2010 18:31:01 GMT -5
i have another question... and if its been asked just ignore it please i read that after this arc we will have a break, and a one shot issue! are this really gonna happen?if so, have you decided about the one issue? sorry about the 2 straight questions hehehe Richie, you'll need to resubmit this question after your other one has been answered. Only one question at a time.
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Post by wenxina on Mar 4, 2010 19:37:16 GMT -5
Hey again, Scott! How concrete is Joss arc looking right now? I guess the more specific question here is whether or not all the little cryptic messages (e.g. the Prince) will finally make sense? After years of stewing, it'd be a waste for it not to pay off in one way or another.
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Post by tigerfan on Mar 4, 2010 19:37:57 GMT -5
In the homeage cover of #35 Dawn seems to be curiously missing. Is there a signficant reason for her to be missing?
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Post by sla on Mar 4, 2010 21:24:22 GMT -5
Hi, Scott!
In 'The Master Plan', Amy says that she come up with a spell to hide Twilight's H.Q., but, what she meant with "3 seconds in the future,"? I didn't get it, can you explain it, please?
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Post by otakumike on Mar 4, 2010 22:12:01 GMT -5
Angel says he "didn't kill anyone". But it's a bit naive, no? After all, there is at least 1 guy who died after he issued a direct order to kill him (remember that computer guy that failed to locate the gang in the mountains?). Does Angel really believe what he's saying? Or is he glossing over some "details" to better charm Buffy?
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Post by zamolxis on Mar 4, 2010 23:09:50 GMT -5
Hi, Scott!
So, all this time Angel was pushing Buffy to become something she couldn't fight! And he's doing the final push right after he finds out from Giles that Buffy knows nothing about! My question is, according to your knowledge, would Angel still played the sentimental card if Buffy knew what's happening ?
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Post by sosa lola on Mar 5, 2010 1:21:46 GMT -5
When Xander, Satsu, and Willow were guessing what Buffy and Angel were doing, do they know that Twilight is Angel? I mean, it's hard to see from that far. Also, would we get to see their reactions to the revelation in the next issue?
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Post by bamph on Mar 5, 2010 6:51:20 GMT -5
To give sort of a general sum up,what would you say to concerned Buffy/Angel shippers as we move forward into the rest of season 8 and beyond about there ship and it's future?What would you say to fandom in general going forward into the rest of the season and beyond?
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Post by henzINNIT on Mar 5, 2010 7:07:25 GMT -5
33. wenxina: How concrete is Joss arc looking right now? I guess the more specific question here is whether or not all the little cryptic messages (e.g. the Prince) will finally make sense? After years of stewing, it'd be a waste for it not to pay off in one way or another. Scott Allie: Frankly, I'm a little concerned that some of the little bits like the Prince won't be spelled out, won't pay off, the way you and I would like them to. Some of those things, we know what they mean and what they are, but things are moving fast, and it still seems like we have a long way to go in seven issues. The only way to really spell out the prince and the queen stuff is by exposition, and there's not gonna be a lot of time for that, as the climax takes over.Shit. You had years, Joss, YEARS. I can't believe I'm hearing that the guy may still be struggling to string together a coherent story with so long to plan and execute it.
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Post by Nixennacht on Mar 5, 2010 7:55:46 GMT -5
You said, you didn't quite understand where the idea that this new magically assisted form of B/A is subversive comes from. More than one thing in that scene points at Twilight (the vampire soap), the star crossed 'destined connection' for one thing and also the dominating patronizing lover, who explains the world to his girl, admittedly manipulated her into this position and, if his previous lines and the cover of the collected vollume are anything to go by, wants to drive her into suicide. And also like in Twilight, the heroine takes this and falls into her lovers arms.
Now it's no secret that Twilight is a romance that is seen as a sad regression into long overcome genderstereotypes by many. Practically the Anti-Buffy in terms of feminsm. So it would seem weird to many that Joss would suddenly put his heroine in such a subdued position without something up his sleeve.
So my question would be, is this zombiefyed state Buffy seems to be in really to be seen as something positive, or rather as something extremely dangerous that she'll have to overcome to prevail?
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Post by sosa lola on Mar 5, 2010 8:05:59 GMT -5
33. wenxina: How concrete is Joss arc looking right now? I guess the more specific question here is whether or not all the little cryptic messages (e.g. the Prince) will finally make sense? After years of stewing, it'd be a waste for it not to pay off in one way or another. Scott Allie: Frankly, I'm a little concerned that some of the little bits like the Prince won't be spelled out, won't pay off, the way you and I would like them to. Some of those things, we know what they mean and what they are, but things are moving fast, and it still seems like we have a long way to go in seven issues. The only way to really spell out the prince and the queen stuff is by exposition, and there's not gonna be a lot of time for that, as the climax takes over.Shit. You had years, Joss, YEARS. I can't believe I'm hearing that the guy may still be struggling to string together a coherent story with so long to plan and execute it. I'm suddenly reminded of Joyce telling Dawn that Buffy won't chose her, which was dropped by the writers. Some fans fanwank it to Buffy telling Giles that she'd kill Dawn for the world, but that's too little. I mean a whole episode of Joyce scaring the shit out of Dawn for nothing? I'm quite let down that the Prince thing won't be dealt with properly.
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Post by wenxina on Mar 5, 2010 8:16:37 GMT -5
Hey again, Scott. Thanks for being frank regarding my question about the Prince. As a follow-up question, because you said that it won't be spelled out explicitly, will we at least be able to draw some logical conclusions as to who was meant, from the rest of the story being told? Because I don't necessarily need/want one of the characters to be like "Hey, remember that Prince... that's him!". Or hey, there's always another MDHP short to give a condensed version of the exposition you speak off... or a one-shot...
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