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

[stormwreath.livejournal.com]

I'm absolutely sure that Joss could write a compelling story without turning Buffy into a criminal. But he has changed the Buffyverse ethic and morality according to new genre demands.

I'm afraid I'm just not seeing the same change in genre you are. Consider my icon. Buffy and her friends were stealing deadly military hardware from an army base way back in season 2. In season 7 Anya was even robbing banks, and it was played entirely for laughs. When a young girl committed suicide in her home, Buffy didn't inform the police... she secretly buried her body in an unmarked grave. How many laws was she breaking there?

The show has always showed this sort of thing without making a big deal of it, most of the time. Occasionally, though, it pulls out the rug from under us by telling us the real consequences of what were watching. They fdif it in 'Dead Things'. And with the 8.11 preview, I think they're about to do it with Buffy's bank robbery.

[moscow-watcher.livejournal.com]

There was a real threat, real urgency in season 2. And in season 7 both Buffy and Anya were under a spell. Here I see only two options:

1) there was an urgency, a big threat but Buffy can't talk about it, even to Willow so she concocts some lame excuses. In this case we have a complex conspiracy plot that will be unraveling during the next 5 years

2) it's played for laughs

In both cases it's not typical for Buffyverse

[stormwreath.livejournal.com]

3) There was an urgent, big threat so Buffy broke the law to counter it. Then there was a not quite so urgent, not quite so big threat, and Buffy broke the law to counter it. Then there was a fairly routine threat, and Buffy broke the law to counter it. Then Buffy thought there might be a big threat some time in the future, so she broke the law to counter it. Slippery slope.

4) There are 2,000 girls who are now Slayers. Their lives are in danger, and Buffy is completely responsible for their current situation. Every one of them who gets killed makes her feel she's got blood on her hands. So anything at all - even crime - is justifiable if it will save their lives. And how else can she find lots of money to buy semi-legal military equipment quickly?

(4) is my favourite.

[moscow-watcher.livejournal.com]

(4) is my favourite.

You frighten me. :)

But, seriously, it's the kind of logic bolsheviks used when they did the revolution and established communist regime. They considered themselves responsible for the suffering of the poor. To save poor people from their lot they overthrew the legal government. They thought it was justifiable if it will save people's lives.

[aycheb.livejournal.com]

But that logic is hardly unique to the bolsheviks. And for every Russian or French revolution there's an American or an English one. Which kind Buffy might end up being involved in is the big question (and not one addressed much by action movies).