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Unless you assume that Dracula's insta-rejuvenation is due to him grabbing a quick bite... worked for Gary Oldman.
until then she was making Buffy look almost maiden auntly... The cumulative effect is a subtle change of focus, such that when Willow says “we’re the army and Buffy’s the General and that’s never going to change” she sounds about as reliable a narrator as Andrew on a good day. Things are changing. In earlier issues scenes of new Slayers being mentored were shot from the point of view of Buffy or Giles or Andrew. This time we’re looking up at Andrew from the point of view of the young Slayers, hearing their conversations drowning out his teachings.
This is an excellent point, and one that makes me wish I could take the Dracula storyline remotely seriously. The idea of the new generation of Slayers being... well, a new generation, and as such likely to overtake their elders without understanding completely what they've been through and why the world is what it is, has popped up now and then in the comics. And while I hope it doesn't come down to anything as black and white as Buffy vs the new slayers (which would essentially make the message of "Chosen" "giving power to women is dangerous") it's an interesting angle. Unfortunately, I can't help feeling that given what Buffy has been up to so far in s8, having the new kids on the block ignore her might not be an altogether bad idea... but so far, most of them seem way to caught up in the myth of Buffy (as they interpret it) to ever want to do that. Again, I'm getting this image of Buffy standing on a balcony in front of thousands of followers, telling them she's not the messiah...
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Date: 2008-04-04 08:49 am (UTC)Unless you assume that Dracula's insta-rejuvenation is due to him grabbing a quick bite... worked for Gary Oldman.
until then she was making Buffy look almost maiden auntly... The cumulative effect is a subtle change of focus, such that when Willow says “we’re the army and Buffy’s the General and that’s never going to change” she sounds about as reliable a narrator as Andrew on a good day. Things are changing. In earlier issues scenes of new Slayers being mentored were shot from the point of view of Buffy or Giles or Andrew. This time we’re looking up at Andrew from the point of view of the young Slayers, hearing their conversations drowning out his teachings.
This is an excellent point, and one that makes me wish I could take the Dracula storyline remotely seriously. The idea of the new generation of Slayers being... well, a new generation, and as such likely to overtake their elders without understanding completely what they've been through and why the world is what it is, has popped up now and then in the comics. And while I hope it doesn't come down to anything as black and white as Buffy vs the new slayers (which would essentially make the message of "Chosen" "giving power to women is dangerous") it's an interesting angle. Unfortunately, I can't help feeling that given what Buffy has been up to so far in s8, having the new kids on the block ignore her might not be an altogether bad idea... but so far, most of them seem way to caught up in the myth of Buffy (as they interpret it) to ever want to do that. Again, I'm getting this image of Buffy standing on a balcony in front of thousands of followers, telling them she's not the messiah...