Thoughts on The Long Way Home
Jul. 8th, 2007 12:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alixtiiWhen I talked about all the trades I picked up when I was buying comics, I forgot to mention that I picked up issue 4 of Season 8 too.
Most of what needs to be said about Season 8 has been said already, how there has been a radical change in the format of the stories not only in the media but also in the basic premise. The comic's more sprawling, now that Buffy has resources and infrastructure.
The massive WTFs--such as Warren's apparent not-being-dead despite the First appearing as him repeated;y--and such have all been addressed by this point as well, and I feel like I have little to say.
My main worry as I approached #4 was that I was going to hate what it did with one of my favorite characters, Amy Madison.
Now while Amy appears in every season except season 5, I have to admit she was unevenly written. To some degree, that's the charm--trying to look at the inconsistencies and see them as nuances and complexities. So the problem wasn't so much that I was worried she would be OOC, as that she would be written evenly--as a one-dimensional villain.
Fortunately, that didn't happen here. Indeed, if anything, we find her actions actually demonstrating what she claimed to believe in "The Killer in Me"--a speech which was admittedly not all that persuasive at the time.
So we've seen her save a man Willow would have killed--a morally good action--and contract for the U.S. military. Both of which are very Amy things to do, and are based on sane, sensible motivations.
So my main reaction to the conclusion of the first arc of season 8 is relief that Amy has been continued to be written as a complex, uneven character. Not that the comics are canon or anything, of course.
Most of what needs to be said about Season 8 has been said already, how there has been a radical change in the format of the stories not only in the media but also in the basic premise. The comic's more sprawling, now that Buffy has resources and infrastructure.
The massive WTFs--such as Warren's apparent not-being-dead despite the First appearing as him repeated;y--and such have all been addressed by this point as well, and I feel like I have little to say.
My main worry as I approached #4 was that I was going to hate what it did with one of my favorite characters, Amy Madison.
Now while Amy appears in every season except season 5, I have to admit she was unevenly written. To some degree, that's the charm--trying to look at the inconsistencies and see them as nuances and complexities. So the problem wasn't so much that I was worried she would be OOC, as that she would be written evenly--as a one-dimensional villain.
Fortunately, that didn't happen here. Indeed, if anything, we find her actions actually demonstrating what she claimed to believe in "The Killer in Me"--a speech which was admittedly not all that persuasive at the time.
So we've seen her save a man Willow would have killed--a morally good action--and contract for the U.S. military. Both of which are very Amy things to do, and are based on sane, sensible motivations.
So my main reaction to the conclusion of the first arc of season 8 is relief that Amy has been continued to be written as a complex, uneven character. Not that the comics are canon or anything, of course.