I agree that some of the mentioned Promethea motives are not fully retold on S8 yet, we're still missing some pieces that make it hard to compare. There are similarities, like the heroine being the one who brings about apocalypse, but while on Promethea the apocalypse genuinly is a step in evolution and a positive event, it doesn't seem to be in Buffy.
Exactly, and I'd bet real money that it's not supposed to be. Twilight isn't a homage to Promethea or the esoteric philosophies Alan Moore proselytises in it. It's a parody, a rebuke, a passionate counter-argument. So much of the Promethea apolgism on LJ focuses on how the sex scenes and the universe expo are better done and more poetically expressed than in Twilight. Of course they are. The hippy tantric philosophy, the idea that Sophie having sex with Jack (Alan Moore's dirty old man self insert) represents a world changing pathway to enlightenment is central to the message Moore is trying to sell (and he sells it very well, I stand by my Leni Reifenstahl comparison if only because Moore would hate it so much). In Twilight it's basically filler. In Twilight the key emotional beats are a) when Buffy, despairing at having brought nothing but destruction to her girls, gives in to Angel's destiny pleading at the end of #33 and b) when she rips a hole in Daffy Duck world rejecting it wholesale to go help her friends back on the 'lower' plane. The space sex wasn't an end in itself but a means to convince the audience that Buffy really had chosen Twilight and it worked. All those complaints that she was no longer a hero, all the slut shaming? People were convinced even as they hated it. Obviously for some the hate was a point of no return (to the story) and the moment of her rediscovering her "me" came too late. It worked for me but then for me the Adam West way is the only way to make Batman's story of one man and his manpain anything resembling palatable. As ever YMMV.
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Exactly, and I'd bet real money that it's not supposed to be. Twilight isn't a homage to Promethea or the esoteric philosophies Alan Moore proselytises in it. It's a parody, a rebuke, a passionate counter-argument. So much of the Promethea apolgism on LJ focuses on how the sex scenes and the universe expo are better done and more poetically expressed than in Twilight. Of course they are. The hippy tantric philosophy, the idea that Sophie having sex with Jack (Alan Moore's dirty old man self insert) represents a world changing pathway to enlightenment is central to the message Moore is trying to sell (and he sells it very well, I stand by my Leni Reifenstahl comparison if only because Moore would hate it so much). In Twilight it's basically filler. In Twilight the key emotional beats are a) when Buffy, despairing at having brought nothing but destruction to her girls, gives in to Angel's destiny pleading at the end of #33 and b) when she rips a hole in Daffy Duck world rejecting it wholesale to go help her friends back on the 'lower' plane. The space sex wasn't an end in itself but a means to convince the audience that Buffy really had chosen Twilight and it worked. All those complaints that she was no longer a hero, all the slut shaming? People were convinced even as they hated it. Obviously for some the hate was a point of no return (to the story) and the moment of her rediscovering her "me" came too late. It worked for me but then for me the Adam West way is the only way to make Batman's story of one man and his manpain anything resembling palatable. As ever YMMV.