I'm glad to see you haven't given up sharing your reactions to the comics -- I always look forward to them.
I agree with you that Alex shows that slayers can't not be slayers, but oddly others take her as evidence of the exact opposite conclusion. Your comments make me realize that I've been naively supposing that the slayer spell will have to be undone. But you're right that it was originally meant to be seen as "good" -- which would point us at plan "c". My problem is that I don't see *any* good in the comics. So if it's supposed to be there, it's there the way the "whole world loves vampires" story line is there, i.e. assumed but not shown.
I completely agree that if the comics don't do more to explain/show this world-changing event there's a serious, if not fatal flaw to the whole project. I love doing meta on Joss's material, but if you can't tell the difference between intentional omissions and careless omissions it becomes really hard to know how to read the thing.
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Date: 2009-07-07 05:37 pm (UTC)I agree with you that Alex shows that slayers can't not be slayers, but oddly others take her as evidence of the exact opposite conclusion. Your comments make me realize that I've been naively supposing that the slayer spell will have to be undone. But you're right that it was originally meant to be seen as "good" -- which would point us at plan "c". My problem is that I don't see *any* good in the comics. So if it's supposed to be there, it's there the way the "whole world loves vampires" story line is there, i.e. assumed but not shown.
I completely agree that if the comics don't do more to explain/show this world-changing event there's a serious, if not fatal flaw to the whole project. I love doing meta on Joss's material, but if you can't tell the difference between intentional omissions and careless omissions it becomes really hard to know how to read the thing.