Faith was pretty great this issue. I didn't think Willow was too bad, either. She's surprisingly not very F-U to Buffy about the whole Buffy
destroying all magic thing. She's a
little F-U, but not a lot.
But also, where the frak is Andrew?
So Season 8 is done and I might as well say a few words. Great start. Great moments throughout. But marred by a very real lack of focus that bogged everything down when it was time to lift it all up. Joss has mentioned that the mistake in this season was to make things too epic while neglecting the down-to-earth "peeps." I halfway disagree with that. I think the book went too epic in the
wrong ways and focused on the
wrong peeps.
I mean, look, the Harmony issue was funny, but in retrospect no one gives a ****. That entire thing could have been done in a single page. The new Slayers needed far more TLC than they got. Who are these girls? What the hell do they do day in and day out? The entire organization gets broken up in this issue and I don't think that a single f**k was given because we never
got any organization to speak of. In retrospect, the stuff focusing on the nameless Buffy-decoy from "The Chain" and Satsu and the BKV-written Faith-in-Britain issues were some of the most interesting parts of the season, partially because it give an identity to the Slayer army. It's actually ridiculous that we're still calling it the "Slayer army" because
they never had an official name.
As for the epic, you got this entirely cool new cosmology with the Seed of Wonder being the heart of this entire world and it's at war with
a whole new world...except we're getting this at the
very last minute...and the Seed is a literal little football thing that's just floating there in the temple waiting for anyone to come along and smash it at their leisure? This is the heart of all magic, brosefs. It should not be a football. It feels crazy wrong. And, okay, Buffy's new powers are a key to the new world, Twilight, coming in and destroying everything but...she's gonna do it by space-****ing? There's nothing wrong with an unlimited budget, Joss, not even for this show...the wrong is entirely in how you use it. There's probably more to say but I think we get the gist of it.
