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gryfndor_godess) wrote2012-02-08 12:43 pm
gryfndor_godess) wrote2012-02-08 12:43 pm
Flipping a Shit (Happily)
OH MY GOD. JUST READ THE COMIC AND AM HAPPILY FLIPPING A SHIT BECAUSE IT IS PERFECT AND BEAUTIFUL, AND THE LAST TWO PAGES, ALDKFJALKDJFLADJFLAJDFK.
Like, I don't even feel the need to fic this issue because the Spuffy (and the Buffy & Dawn, Buffy & Robin, Nikki & Crowley, Spike & Dowling, EVERYTHING ELSE) already makes me so happy! (Still writing my future!domestic-Spuffy!Andrew-baby-daddy!baby!fic, though- it's just not based around this issue.)
ETA: Although there's definitely a drabble or ficlet begging to be written with Buffy asking, "What did you need to tell me?"
Initial reactions, flailing, and word vomit below the cut:
-Did anyone else notice on the 11th page how upset she looks when she says "I guess it's obvious what I should do" and then how hopeful she looks when Robin says "I don't think it is"? SHE WANTS THE BABY.
-SPIKE AND DOWLING ARE SO GREAT TOGETHER! I WOULD TOTES BE OKAY IF BUFFY AND SPIKE HAD A THREESOME WITH HIM.
-BUFFY AND DAWN!!!
-Robin was really great! Even though I sympathize with him in S7, I don't really like him that much, but I really like him here, and I love that he recognizes how his mother and Buffy are different and would approach child-rearing differently.
-I really liked Nikki and Crowley's story!! I agree with Mari's Tumblr reaction, Crowley definitely loved her.
-Would Giles have reacted the same way as Crowley (only obviously out of parental love)? I think he would have.
-BUFFY WANTS SPIKE TO BE HER BABY!DADDY!! ASLDKFJALDFJLADKJFLAKDJFLAKDJFLADJF.
-My heart breaks for Buffy at the end, and I LOVE that she recognizes and admits that the reasons she's not ready to have a baby are because of her ordinary human circumstances- because it means someday down the line, if she felt more stable in her job, home, etc., she could have a baby regardless of the slaying. Obviously mileage varies in fan opinion of Buffy-as-mother, but personally I think she'd be really good at it, and I've never gotten the impression that Buffy would dislike having kids (worry about it because of slaying? Sure, definitely, but not want kids on principle? No; I don't see that at all), so the fact that this issue basically affirms the idea that Buffy is open to the idea of being a mother MAKES ME REALLY HAPPY.
-Also, the ending, SPUFFY!!!!! AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH MY HEART ALFJALKFDJLKDJFLASJFLDKASJF.
-As for whether or not she'll actually go through with an abortion, I really want Buffy to have a baby (*with Spike as biological or nonbiological-baby-daddy, obvs*), but I'd also be really pleased with such a pro-choice plot, and honestly, I don't want Joss writing a baby plot. He doesn't deserve any trust in that regard after all the abominable pregnancy plots on AtS. The interviews I've read indicate that she will go through with an abortion, but I can't really see that happening when Joss could cause her equal or so much more pain by having her miscarry or have to give up the baby for adoption later in the season. :/
-Calling it now, it's a girl. Or not really calling it, I suppose, because I don't have proof to back it up, but if it's a boy I will be extremely put out because this is Buffy, feminist icon, and she should have a daughter. Also, imagine Spike being completely wrapped around another Summers woman's finger. HE WOULD SPOIL THAT BABY SO ROTTEN AND BE ADORABLY OVERPROTECTIVE AND CLICHED.
Like, I don't even feel the need to fic this issue because the Spuffy (and the Buffy & Dawn, Buffy & Robin, Nikki & Crowley, Spike & Dowling, EVERYTHING ELSE) already makes me so happy! (Still writing my future!domestic-Spuffy!Andrew-baby-daddy!baby!fic, though- it's just not based around this issue.)
ETA: Although there's definitely a drabble or ficlet begging to be written with Buffy asking, "What did you need to tell me?"
Initial reactions, flailing, and word vomit below the cut:
-Did anyone else notice on the 11th page how upset she looks when she says "I guess it's obvious what I should do" and then how hopeful she looks when Robin says "I don't think it is"? SHE WANTS THE BABY.
-SPIKE AND DOWLING ARE SO GREAT TOGETHER! I WOULD TOTES BE OKAY IF BUFFY AND SPIKE HAD A THREESOME WITH HIM.
-BUFFY AND DAWN!!!
-Robin was really great! Even though I sympathize with him in S7, I don't really like him that much, but I really like him here, and I love that he recognizes how his mother and Buffy are different and would approach child-rearing differently.
-I really liked Nikki and Crowley's story!! I agree with Mari's Tumblr reaction, Crowley definitely loved her.
-Would Giles have reacted the same way as Crowley (only obviously out of parental love)? I think he would have.
-BUFFY WANTS SPIKE TO BE HER BABY!DADDY!! ASLDKFJALDFJLADKJFLAKDJFLAKDJFLADJF.
-My heart breaks for Buffy at the end, and I LOVE that she recognizes and admits that the reasons she's not ready to have a baby are because of her ordinary human circumstances- because it means someday down the line, if she felt more stable in her job, home, etc., she could have a baby regardless of the slaying. Obviously mileage varies in fan opinion of Buffy-as-mother, but personally I think she'd be really good at it, and I've never gotten the impression that Buffy would dislike having kids (worry about it because of slaying? Sure, definitely, but not want kids on principle? No; I don't see that at all), so the fact that this issue basically affirms the idea that Buffy is open to the idea of being a mother MAKES ME REALLY HAPPY.
-Also, the ending, SPUFFY!!!!! AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH MY HEART ALFJALKFDJLKDJFLASJFLDKASJF.
-As for whether or not she'll actually go through with an abortion, I really want Buffy to have a baby (*with Spike as biological or nonbiological-baby-daddy, obvs*), but I'd also be really pleased with such a pro-choice plot, and honestly, I don't want Joss writing a baby plot. He doesn't deserve any trust in that regard after all the abominable pregnancy plots on AtS. The interviews I've read indicate that she will go through with an abortion, but I can't really see that happening when Joss could cause her equal or so much more pain by having her miscarry or have to give up the baby for adoption later in the season. :/
-Calling it now, it's a girl. Or not really calling it, I suppose, because I don't have proof to back it up, but if it's a boy I will be extremely put out because this is Buffy, feminist icon, and she should have a daughter. Also, imagine Spike being completely wrapped around another Summers woman's finger. HE WOULD SPOIL THAT BABY SO ROTTEN AND BE ADORABLY OVERPROTECTIVE AND CLICHED.
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I'm so glad. :)
It actually has me beyond worried.
ME, TOO. Part of me worries that there will be some huge, relationship-ending (insofar as any of the ships ever actually "end" in the Buffyverse) event later in the season, a la the Bangel spacefrak, but I honestly can't imagine what in-character trauma Joss could come up with; Buffy and Spike are just too much a part of each other now for any traitorous, hurtful event like that to be remotely realistic (*knocks on wood*; except for maybe if he knowingly slept with her while she was drunk? But calling that IC would be an extremely tenuous claim). So then part of me worries that Joss will kill Spike off b/c hey, that's the other way to end a relationship, but I don't think DH would let him do that b/c Spike is such a moneymaker and draw to the fans; I know I'd stop reading the comics if he were killed.
So now, after reading an interview with Chambliss, I'm wondering if Spike and Buffy's love will merely stay "unrequited" because they're both too stupid to realize their love is mutual- that would be almost as bad as anything else. Except I don't think such obtuseness is IC, either. *Sigh* It's all annoyingly worrisome.
Then again, maybe Joss thinks that this issue was actually painful for Spuffies b/c Spike was so close to confessing and then didn't...whereas, yeah, that might disappoint us a little, but the obvious trust and love and "I was ready to ask you to run away with me" are JUST as good, if not better. God knows what goes on in Joss's mind...
This is the beginning of Spuffy totally getting its dues. I believe. I really, really do.
FINGERS CROSSED. :D
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I'd be unbelievably furious and offended if they had him rape her while he was sober and she was too drunk to consent, and if they were both drunk and it was consensual, I'd still be annoyed because how dare they do something like that off-page after so many years of waiting?? (I mean, I guess they could give us flashbacks, but STILL).
Because I just can't envision a situation where he willingly leaves her again, not after everything that's happened.
Ugh, yeah. I hadn't considered them simply moving him a different title (I heard the same rumors that they considered it), but that would be a relationship-ender, too. The implied apathy between Buffy and Spike, that they could finally part ways, would be almost worse than a traumatic event.
Their feelings. They are obvious. ;)
Seriously. I don't know why Chambliss called them unrequited in the first place, because they clearly are requited...the characters just don't know it; there's a difference.
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