Attempting a Season 8 Re-Read and already giving up

[AlphaFoxtrot]

Also, S8 did have a motion comic, which are weird little relics of the 2010s, like an audiobook, but with weird puppets from comic panels. This only covers the first half of the season, and like 30 dollars on streaming,

 

[garfan]

Ah yes, the Seed of Wonder. To be fair, getting rid of all magic in the universe is the ultimate admission that you overused the concept and are so creatively bankrupt that nuking a core concept is the best you can do. Which means they kind of agree with us.

I think it was more about Joss wanting to give the Scoobies a loss

 

[NoShip]

I think it was more about Joss wanting to give the Scoobies a loss

I agree. I also think that Whedon believed that he was just better than his audience. Thus the "Give the audience what they need, not what they want" arrogance.

 

[Btvs fan]

I agree. I also think that Whedon believed that he was just better than his audience. Thus the "Give the audience what they need, not what they want" arrogance.

I dont think it was even that, i think simply Joss was bored of Buffy leading a Army of Slayers and so pressed the reset button. Ala Buffy is now balancing her job making coffee at Starbucks with life as a Slayer. As for the rest of the Slayers they basically got abandoned because he had no more use for them

 

[garfan]

I dont think it was even that, i think simply Joss was bored of Buffy leading a Army of Slayers and so pressed the reset button. Ala Buffy is now balancing her job making coffee at Starbucks with life as a Slayer. As for the rest of the Slayers they basically got abandoned because he had no more use for them

well, only partly. Fray had already been written by this point and season 8 was the story that made that story possible