I'm definitely reading them. Mostly. I've only picked up a few of the IDW titles, being not such a fan of Angel-the-character or Urru's artwork, but I've only managed to boycott an issue or two of Season 8. I have my own interpretation going, which isn't especially positive since issue #25 or so. The theme of women giving away their self-determination, starting with Dawn, is upsetting to me. I'm unhappy with the direction in which they are taking Buffy herself, though I'm withholding judgment until the end. I think that I'm waiting to do any S8 riffing myself until it's over, since who the hell knows what'll happen. Why guarantee that you'll be Joss'd, you know?
The internecine battles in fandom are very quelling, on top of that. Everybody is seeing something different, and there's stuff we still don't know, but there are people willing to go to the mat over their (unfinished) theory of where it'll end up. I've even had people I agree with slap me severely because I like some minor element of the story that they don't. What's the point? Where's the joy? I admit, I'm in it for the joy, so yeah, until I've got something to be joyful about, I'm keeping mum. Except, you know, when I don't.
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Date: 2010-10-19 03:44 pm (UTC)The internecine battles in fandom are very quelling, on top of that. Everybody is seeing something different, and there's stuff we still don't know, but there are people willing to go to the mat over their (unfinished) theory of where it'll end up. I've even had people I agree with slap me severely because I like some minor element of the story that they don't. What's the point? Where's the joy? I admit, I'm in it for the joy, so yeah, until I've got something to be joyful about, I'm keeping mum. Except, you know, when I don't.