Season Eight
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are your thoughts/reactions? Has the change from television to comic
book impacted how you view the story? If so, how?
TANX for your help!
Reggi...@sendtousenet.com
I haven't seen it.....I don't do comic books.
T-minus108
Personally, I like the comics a lot! Each issue is a little short
compared to an episode of the show, but each arc is about the length
of an episode or two.
There are a few things that I'd like to mention about the comic:
1. Willow is pretty much let loose on doing magic. There doesn't seem
to be anyone telling her not to use it anymore, and that's sort of
turning the story in a different direction.
2. The writers are using the medium to it's maximum potential, which
is a good thing. There are obviously a lot of things you can do in
comics that you can't do in a show without spending a LOT of money.
3. The only thing that I feel is missing from the comic is the
chemistry between characters. Sometimes I just can't think of the way
a character would speak a line (depending on the character), but on
the other hand, some of the characters seem a lot more interesting
because they are not actors, they are purely Joss' imagination.
4. The visuals are better than the show, simply because they are
without limitations.
5. We are getting a lot more interaction between certain characters.
In conclusion, I think the comic is doing a very good job with the
story and mythoglogy of the series. There are times when it doesn't
feel right, but the times when it does feel right completely
outnumbers the times it doesn't. And whenever Joss himself is writing
them, it almost seems better than the show, but that's just one
opinion.
grinningdemon
I think the book has been great...in fact, I'd like to see other shows
of this genre take a similar aproach...comics offer the ability to
tell stories on a much grander scale than television and allow writers
to take the story to the next level...so often in the past, comics
based on TV or movies have been thoroughly lame because they were just
trying to capitalize on the success of the show or film and no one put
any real effort into them...fortunately, Buffy Season Eight is not one
of those...getting Joss to head the project and bringing along other
show writers as well as prominent comic writers has really produced
something special...I hope it continues for a long time to come and I
look forward to seeing other TV properties follow suit (as Farscape is
about to do).