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Entertainment without MuJi: Day One.

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Was anyone even surprised?

By new comic developments? Or by something else?

If the former, no. No, I wasn't surprised. I just read some totally awesome meta about that issue, actually.

Yeah, the former.

(Actually I was expecting bad stuff to happen to Satsu, but called Renee from the very first Xander/her scene in the issue.)

Can you link the meta?

Sure. Let me get permission first, because I think it's flocked. But it's from one of my favorite meta people on LJ.

I shouldn't have been. But I was. And as I noted in my post about this comic, I am getting tired of how Joss treats anything even remotely resembling a happy couple.

Which isn't to say that I don't love the comics otherwise. I just wanna slap him.

Mmmm, yeah. i'm sort of enjoying the comics anyway. (and will read the next arc)

But really - the whole shock value thing is lost on me. I no longer blink when he pulls crap like this, which I'm sure is not the point.

I think the point is still "people die suddenly in real life. Deal with it."

Sometimes I wish Joss would accept that one of the reasons we read or watch fiction, especially genre, is that in genre fiction, the good guys sometimes do live happily ever after.

The thing is? After ten years of Buffy, yes. I've dealt with it. I've moved on.

I'm now bored of it. Come up with something new, Joss!

- and don't you dare kill off a Runaway.

Preview art I've seen for the next series - Marvel is restarting in the fall under writer Terry Moore - seems to suggest that the team escapes Joss intact (though Secret Invasion might makes Xavin's role a bit iffy).

It's so blatantly (and annoyingly) unsurprising that I'm kinda hoping it's another fakeout of the "oh hey wait Slayer healing fooled you!" sort. I mean, honestly.

If it's not a fakeout... god, JOSS. This is no longer an unpredictable twist; it's lame, and you need to get over the habit posthaste. Used sparingly, killing people off is effective; used all the damn time, it's boring and annoying.

I used to be annoyed at Crap Buffy Ressurections.

Now I'm annoyed at Crap Buffy Deaths. Is it just that Joss has never had a happy relatio...

Oh wait.

What is it, then?

Lordy I do not knoooooow.

Seriously, I would suspect that, if it didn't seem solidly otherwise. As it is -- I don't even know. Creative rut he has a giant blind spot about?

Mostly now I am just like, JOSS. STOP REPEATING YOURSELF OVER AND OVER AGAIN WITHOUT A DARN GOOD REASON TO DO SO.

Is it relationships, though? I mean, it's relationships if we're talking how nobody's romance goes unbroken, but if we're talking predictable deaths -- Wash is the only male half of a couple to die for permanent, that I can think of, and that was because of Alan Tudyk volunteering, yeah? Whereas the list of dead girlfriends in the cumulative Jossverse is long, and includes some major characters whose deaths became all about their SOs' grief. Honestly I am inclined to call classic-ish Refrigerator Syndrome. It seeps in?

I haven't read the comic yet though ...

We haven't seen the scoobies' reactions (or, actually, if it is a death or just a severe Willow-healable wound) so there's no way to know yet if it's a Fridge or not.

Except if it is a fridge, it's not Xander's fridge she's been shoved into, but Buffy's, which galls even more.

Refrigerator Syndrome in the way that a lot of the time it is like "how can I make Sadness and Stuff Happen?" "KILL SOMEBODY!" where it is not really weighted much in the story? The ones that most worked for me the way he intended were Wash and Joyce, anyway, which I guess were mostly Oh Look Death Is Unexpected! and not much about making Character X do grief a lot. Well you could argue about Joyce, but The Body never looked like a plot device to me.

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