1. Well, I'm with you on Lynch and IDW (though I'm not a militant hater, just highly disinterested). Dark Horse did seem to announce it in a bizarre way. This coupled with the Angel reveal actually makes me feel that Willingham et al. probably did have good reason to complain that IDW is being badly treated by DH. Oh well, I guess I don't care enough, and a shared universe would be cool. I do trust Whedon more than any IDW folk to preserve Angel's story, and I trust him a lot on Spike. He also wrote most of Illyria's scenes in the show I've heard...?
2. Yes on all these points. The issue is most interesting on Angel, secondarily on Riley & Sam (who are pretty enjoyable). That the plan needed for Buffy to be stripped of power to be powered up confirms that this is what we were supposed to get out of Retreat; hopefully there'll be more on that in Last Gleaming. (I don't know if I care that it makes sense literally, but it should be clear what the steps were.)
Whistler's appearance was pretty neat.
I'm not so sure that Riley's scenes were all light; in fact Riley's scenes started all light and then became gradually darker and darker until they were in total blackness. Riley has to descend into darkness; we see that Angel was already there. That Riley gets darker than Angel does could mean anything I guess (though if it's that Riley & Sam are worse than Angel, I think that's silly).
I have the same hopes about Bangel subversion.
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3. It's nice that Mariah is trying so hard to reach out to fans. I flipped through a few pages of Willingham's Angel book in hardcover; I actually kind of like the art (!) but didn't actually bother reading any of it.
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Date: 2010-08-19 11:48 pm (UTC)2. Yes on all these points. The issue is most interesting on Angel, secondarily on Riley & Sam (who are pretty enjoyable). That the plan needed for Buffy to be stripped of power to be powered up confirms that this is what we were supposed to get out of Retreat; hopefully there'll be more on that in Last Gleaming. (I don't know if I care that it makes sense literally, but it should be clear what the steps were.)
Whistler's appearance was pretty neat.
I'm not so sure that Riley's scenes were all light; in fact Riley's scenes started all light and then became gradually darker and darker until they were in total blackness. Riley has to descend into darkness; we see that Angel was already there. That Riley gets darker than Angel does could mean anything I guess (though if it's that Riley & Sam are worse than Angel, I think that's silly).
I have the same hopes about Bangel subversion.
Back to comment on your comment on my thread!
3. It's nice that Mariah is trying so hard to reach out to fans. I flipped through a few pages of Willingham's Angel book in hardcover; I actually kind of like the art (!) but didn't actually bother reading any of it.