I think that this is one of those "darn you, comics" moments where they could have been clearer about when her fantasy starts by shifting the colour, which they don't do until she's kissing him in her fantasy. That makes it very unclear about what's fantasy and what's reality when only two panels have that colour shift. They should have muted everything where the fantasy began in the subtle yellow tone and done it that way because how can anyone really be 100% sure of which is which otherwise? Like, they could have even done a panel shifting into a that muted colour scheme to illustrate that she's drifting off into LALALand.
Yeah, we know that now, but it wasn't painfully obvious at the time. I knew the pregnancy/birthing metaphor was coming with the egg (I felt it in my bones because the only overwrought "I AM WOMAN! HERE ME ROAR" metaphor she hadn't gotten into yet was actual pregnancy so she had to get knocked up eventually in some way) and I guessed haphazardly that Angel was Twilight 'cause it just had to be to torture my Spangel-loving soul... Though I had no way of knowing that Twilight was not only Angel, but a dimension and a mythical soulless Bangel goblin that was able to talk to Angel before it was technically born. FREAKY BAR. I just figured that this would all end with Buffy eating birth sacks off her litter of young... There's still time for that since we don't need any valuable exposition! *raises fist in the air* Damn you, Joss!
Also, I kinda just realized that Joss totally stole the plot line for S8 from Shoujo Kakumei Utena just as he stole the plot of Firefly from episodes of Cowboy Bebop. Oh, sweet Christ, I know how it's going to end. I guarantee (guarantees not valid in real life) that Buffy will be walking the lone walk of the lone hero down a highway at the end of this, and she may or may not remember who she is. And if SKU is what Joss is "paying homage" to, you're right, Xander's dead in the water. Oh, crap... Spike will be all right at least.
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Date: 2010-10-23 09:56 am (UTC)Yeah, we know that now, but it wasn't painfully obvious at the time.
I knew the pregnancy/birthing metaphor was coming with the egg (I felt it in my bones because the only overwrought "I AM WOMAN! HERE ME ROAR" metaphor she hadn't gotten into yet was actual pregnancy so she had to get knocked up eventually in some way) and I guessed haphazardly that Angel was Twilight 'cause it just had to be to torture my Spangel-loving soul... Though I had no way of knowing that Twilight was not only Angel, but a dimension and a mythical soulless Bangel goblin that was able to talk to Angel before it was technically born. FREAKY BAR. I just figured that this would all end with Buffy eating birth sacks off her litter of young... There's still time for that since we don't need any valuable exposition! *raises fist in the air* Damn you, Joss!
Also, I kinda just realized that Joss totally stole the plot line for S8 from Shoujo Kakumei Utena just as he stole the plot of Firefly from episodes of Cowboy Bebop. Oh, sweet Christ, I know how it's going to end. I guarantee (guarantees not valid in real life) that Buffy will be walking the lone walk of the lone hero down a highway at the end of this, and she may or may not remember who she is. And if SKU is what Joss is "paying homage" to, you're right, Xander's dead in the water. Oh, crap... Spike will be all right at least.