Comic Vs TV what do you prefer?

[lady_windermere]

sueworld2003 said "Trouble is as beautifully done as they are, they mainly served to push home to me how much I miss seeing those characters in a live action format." I was wondering how many others felt the same. Two polls under the cut.


[Poll #1129330]

Comments

[2maggie2.livejournal.com]

I don't think it's fair to call AtF fan-fiction-y. It's a different project, is all. Brian's only got 12 issues in which to tell his story, for one thing. For another, we're only on #3. And the greatness that is season 8 has only become apparent further in. While I doubt we'll end up with the layers and complexities that season 8 is now promising in AtF, it's not fair to complain that we haven't seen it yet. In any case, we haven't had step-by-step explanations in AtF. There are lots of blanks right now, just as there were in #3 for season 8.

That said, I'm totally with you on season 8 at this point. I had been very skeptical of Joss's choice to start in media res, but am increasingly coming to appreciate his choice. It is too bad that it seems to be costing him a good chunk of his audience (and worse the chunk of his audience who in general have more insight into the series). Part of it is that it was a big shift in his narrative style. And if you don't see that shift, it all gets misread. If you expect an essentially linear progression, then all the ways in which the characters and situations seemed 'off' just look like weak story-telling. It's only when you see that the structure is non-linear, and that the characters ARE supposed to see off, and that the story is about gradually learning about what has already happened that it makes sense. Quite beautiful, really.

In that vein, let me remark that I think Dawn's story is going to turn out to be centrally tied into the main plot. It's been the big poster child for how 'off' Joss is. And I now think he's using the metaphor of 'giant' and 'big' really quite literally. She's the big elephant in the room. And a lot will depend on her story. (There's a fearless forecast for you.)

[stormwreath.livejournal.com]

I should probably say that to me, calling something "fan-fiction" isn't pejorative, so I wasn't criticising AtF when I said that's what it felt like. ('Felt like', not 'is', of course, because it's pro-fic, and canon pro-fic at that.) But perhaps it was the wrong expression to use, given the associations many people make of it...

Completely agree with the rest of your post, and have a sneaky feeling you're right about the significance of Dawn.