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beer_good_foamyOK, so one final (?) piece of Season 8 speculation. True, I haven't read the last few issues, but I think I've stumbled over enough information to finally figure it all out.
Apparently, #32 contains a heretofore unknown concentration of, on average, no less than 3.652 Superman jokes per panel - and that's before Scott Allie's commentary. Granted, I'm told they're mostly about Buffy, but since everyone has also noted that Buffy's superpowers seem to be an equal match with Twilight's they fit him too. Is this just comic-book geekery that was already starting to get dull when Seinfeld did it 20 years ago, or might it actually be foreshadowing?
For those of you unfamiliar with Superman's background, the bare bones of it are: when the planet Krypton was dying, everyone laughed at Jor-El's doomsday prophecies. So he sent his only begotten (or IS he?) son Kal-El to Earth, knowing that Earth's low gravity and yellow sun would give him superpowers (hence the clever name "Superman"). Nobody ever asked Kal-El if he wanted superpowers, but this isn't a problem since he's a Man. Much to all the other Kryptonians' embarrassment, Krypton then exploded, scattering radioactive bits of itself (kryptonite) all across the galaxy - funnily enough, a lot of it ended up on Earth, despite Earth being a gazillion kilometres away. This, of course, makes no logical sense whatsoever.
...unless, that is, Krypton was situated near a wormhole whose other end was somewhere near Earth. This would also explain why young Kal-El's space module managed unpiloted interstellar travel (and landed in Kansas, of all places). This should sound very familiar to anyone who's ever watched even the opening credits of Farscape.
Now, if we take into account the Doctor's (canonical!) appearance in #6, which means that the DC!Verse, the Buffyverse, the Whoverse and the Farscapeverse can all be linked, I think it's very obvious what's going on here, and I can't believe we never saw it before.
Twilight is Superman's evil twin Ang-El.
He's currently on the run from the Peacekeepers, and has for the last 250-odd years been masquerading as a vampire (possibly with the help of some sort of fob watch). His plan now is towin Wimbledon restore Krypton and bring it back from the fold in time and space where it still hides (despite obviously having exploded, but... timey wimey wibbly wobbly). This would mean that a huge frigging planet with a red sun and much higher gravity than Earth, populated by a superscientific and rather amoral race of clever idiots led by Timothy Dalton (as foreshadowed by the multiple James Bond references throughout Season 8), would appear in the sky above Earth. This would end magic in three ways: firstly, by robbing all Kryptonians living on Earth of their superpowers; secondly, by explaining how all magic is really just applied physics; and thirdly and rather obviously, crushing Earth and everyone on it into tiny little bits of carbon. To achieve this, he has very sneakily implanted a neural clone of himself in Buffy's head (brilliantly foreshadowed by Ethan's stroll through Buffy's dreamscape in #3). Specifically, Warren implanted it in Willow's brain in #4, and it transferred to Buffy during their mind-meld in the same issue. This clone, also known as a "Harvey" (after the giant bunny in the movie of the same name - see, Anya was right all along) has gradually been taking over Buffy's mind, turning her into a Kryptonian with as much contempt for human life as Ang-El himself has demonstrated in his every appearance in Season 8, granting her superpowers but also infecting her with the same red kryptonite poisoning that's caused Ang-El to act more and more irrationally. (That's why he picked the name Twilight, btw; red sky at night and all that.) Eventually, the energy unleashed when Buffy killed Willow (that should have been a dead give-away) in the Frayverse will leak back in time and draw Krypton in.
The solution is logical, Jim. To stop Ang-El, they need green kryptonite. Fortunately, they have easy access to it. All they need to do is to get Spike, AKA Captain John, to shoot Dawn with Xander's gun while she's close to Ang-El. As she dies, she'll release all the green kryptonite energy the monks made her out of, thereby killing him (there's that Dawn-Twilight connection). ETA: it also explains Buffy's attitude towards Dawn ever since she started turning into a Kryptonian herself. But what about Dawn, you say? Isn't that heartless? Of course not. She will simply upload to the nearest resurrection ship and be reborn into a new and identical body, there to worship the one true God Joss while being served by the lesser, more primitive Cylon models (Sam Finn, for instance).
And finally, it all makes sense.
Apparently, #32 contains a heretofore unknown concentration of, on average, no less than 3.652 Superman jokes per panel - and that's before Scott Allie's commentary. Granted, I'm told they're mostly about Buffy, but since everyone has also noted that Buffy's superpowers seem to be an equal match with Twilight's they fit him too. Is this just comic-book geekery that was already starting to get dull when Seinfeld did it 20 years ago, or might it actually be foreshadowing?
For those of you unfamiliar with Superman's background, the bare bones of it are: when the planet Krypton was dying, everyone laughed at Jor-El's doomsday prophecies. So he sent his only begotten (or IS he?) son Kal-El to Earth, knowing that Earth's low gravity and yellow sun would give him superpowers (hence the clever name "Superman"). Nobody ever asked Kal-El if he wanted superpowers, but this isn't a problem since he's a Man. Much to all the other Kryptonians' embarrassment, Krypton then exploded, scattering radioactive bits of itself (kryptonite) all across the galaxy - funnily enough, a lot of it ended up on Earth, despite Earth being a gazillion kilometres away. This, of course, makes no logical sense whatsoever.
...unless, that is, Krypton was situated near a wormhole whose other end was somewhere near Earth. This would also explain why young Kal-El's space module managed unpiloted interstellar travel (and landed in Kansas, of all places). This should sound very familiar to anyone who's ever watched even the opening credits of Farscape.
Now, if we take into account the Doctor's (canonical!) appearance in #6, which means that the DC!Verse, the Buffyverse, the Whoverse and the Farscapeverse can all be linked, I think it's very obvious what's going on here, and I can't believe we never saw it before.
Twilight is Superman's evil twin Ang-El.
He's currently on the run from the Peacekeepers, and has for the last 250-odd years been masquerading as a vampire (possibly with the help of some sort of fob watch). His plan now is to
The solution is logical, Jim. To stop Ang-El, they need green kryptonite. Fortunately, they have easy access to it. All they need to do is to get Spike, AKA Captain John, to shoot Dawn with Xander's gun while she's close to Ang-El. As she dies, she'll release all the green kryptonite energy the monks made her out of, thereby killing him (there's that Dawn-Twilight connection). ETA: it also explains Buffy's attitude towards Dawn ever since she started turning into a Kryptonian herself. But what about Dawn, you say? Isn't that heartless? Of course not. She will simply upload to the nearest resurrection ship and be reborn into a new and identical body, there to worship the one true God Joss while being served by the lesser, more primitive Cylon models (Sam Finn, for instance).
And finally, it all makes sense.
