WHY DO I CONTINUE TO READ SPOILERS FOR S9?!

[fenderlove]

OH MY GOD! Why do I do this to myself?! I haven't even been reading the comics! I've stayed away like the plague, but I just can't stop my morbid fascination with canon's anti-climactic downfall.

Everyone's got their own flounce issue (maybe not for BtVS, but even for other fandoms). You know what I mean- that one thing that you always said that if the creators/writers did, you'd leave everything behind and move on? Well, S9 is reaching for one of mine. Since I've given up on canon all together, I can't really flounce, but still, the S9 writers are poking at my EPIC FLOUNCE button, which means RANTY-RANT RAGE if they actually go through with it.

Leave. Spike. Alone. I want him away from the main story. Far away. Unliving a fulfilled, happy unlife. Maybe finding someone completely unconnected with Angel and Buffy and his old unlife. Maybe just learning to love himself. Maybe finding some close, good, supportive friends... who he doesn't ever sleep with. You know what? I'm going to pretend that Spike's story ended with Spike: Asylum and Shadow Puppets. He's living in Primm, Nevada with his friends, sometimes traveling protecting the world, and being a contented, adjusted adult.

I'll just stick with my own Alternate Universes and with lilithbint's Second Time Around'verse. I give up!

Comments

[shapinglight]

I try to ignore it too (on the principle that anything that looks that ugly can't possibly be canon), but at times it is difficult.

I shouldn't worry, though. Already the wankometers are revving up about the lack of use of Xander in this issue. Apparently, this means that when they talk about saying goodbye to a key character in the next issue, they mean Xander is going to die.

How this logic computes I really do not know.

[fenderlove.livejournal.com]

All I had to see was Spike crying a single emo tear, and I was just like, "Eff my life!" What is with Georges Jeanty not being able to draw emotion unless he includes those weird enormous milky tears?! Not every deep emotion or pained expression requires tears, darn it!

Logic does not exist anywhere near DarkHorse or Whedon at this point.

[rahirah]

Well, at least there's absolutely no doubt what the character is feeling that way. Anything between the single emo tear and the enormous goofy grin is terra incognita.

[fenderlove.livejournal.com]

It's still terra infirma to me! What is the single tear supposed to signify? Pain? Sadness? He realized he's out of little marshmallows at home (where ever he's supposed to be living). I just don't get it. At least when he was drooling the drool of the knocked unconscious, I knew what that was! XD

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Xander fans.

Yeah.

I don't even...

[fenderlove.livejournal.com]

They just keep waiting... for something to happen. I just have the feeling that when that something finally does happen, it will not be very positive.

[norwie2010.livejournal.com]

Maybe just learning to love himself.

Admit it - you just love the dirty images in your mind. :-P

[fenderlove.livejournal.com]

Haha. Not that Spike giving himself a little love isn't a very, very pleasant image, but I was hoping for a self-actualization kind of love. :D