sharpless replied to your post: Saying that the comics aren’t canon just because they’re in a different medium is the exact same thing. Writing off Season 8 is the same as writing off Season 4 or 2. Joss Whedon declares that the comics are canon, and so they are. You can’t write it off just because it’s not in television format anymore.
Joss actually said that the comics are canon, though. Look: buffy.wikia.com/wiki/Ca… I’m not trying to troll you, I promise! I’m just curious how you reconcile your comics exception with an official statement that contradicts it
Joss’s word isn’t enough for me in this case, though! His show was cancelled and he’s chosen to do this other project in other ways, but it can’t force canon on the vast majority of people who will not read them.
I kind of see them as Joss’s fanfiction? What he’d do if he had unfettered reign over the series. And that’s great for him and I do support that endeavor, but I can’t see them as blanket canon because I recognize that there’s a lot more that went into the series than just Joss Whedon’s vision- and I actually think it’s a little arrogant of him to take full responsibility for everything successful about the show. He can say it, but we don’t have to listen~
sharpless replied to your photo: (We’re giving him a few years before we break the…
Hey, he can still be a slayer! Just not a Slayer. Like Robin Wood! Though, hopefully he won’t end up doing it for the same reason Robin did…
Hey, if I’m going, death by Slayer of Slayers isn’t the worst way to do it! :D
(But yes.)
sharpless replied to your post: fannybaws replied to your post: capntrips replied…
I liked Buffy season four! Kind of. The Initiative stuff was pretty poorly executed, as was Adam, but I liked a lot of the concepts from that season, and I think it had a bunch of good character moments.
fannybaws replied to your post: fannybaws replied to your post: capntrips replied…
It’s not the worst season. I love Riley. But it felt underwhelming to me. Mostly because there were a lot of themes going on that went under-explored, characters with unexplored potential. But thinking back, it was kind of a gems and turkeys season.
sunmono replied to your post: fannybaws replied to your post: capntrips replied…
I love season 4! I really really love the standalone episodes, but I like the arc too. I never really got season 4 hate. Or season 7. I just love ALL THE SEASONS.
rippedfuel replied to your post: fannybaws replied to your post: capntrips replied…
I really like season 4. Though I think its more that as I got older (aka out of my gawky early 20’s existence) the more I appreciated that season.
It’s not my favorite season, but it certainly has its strengths- and I agree, its worst weaknesses tend to be all the untapped potential there- though I wonder how excellent it might’ve been if Lindsay Crouse could have been there throughout the season. The strengths of the Initiative plot seem to me to be tied to Riley’s arc (Goodbye Iowa still blows me away with the “what could have been” of the arc), but there just isn’t enough of it? Idk. I’d love to see an analysis of Adam and his function in the series sometime, giving me better perspective on how he makes the plot work (if he does at all).
There are definitely a couple of seasons that become more enjoyable with age, I think- S4 and 6 come to mind, and maybe S7, too. Though I don’t know if that’s about existing within the season’s frame of mind or just more time to allow it to settle in your head.
