Not completely serious s8 speculation
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stormwreath, don't hate me for this one, but...
Some people ;-) have been remarking that much of "Season 8" reads like rather cracky fanfic. But as has been pointed out, the original creator of a canon can't, by definition, write fanfic about it. So the question then would be who's writing it?
Then I read Dead Letter, and in one of the commentsstormwreath writes:
- We'd have a big, exaggeratedly spy-movie-style organisation, where Buffy would make James Bond look low-budget and lo-fi in comparison. Castles, helicopters, jet planes, ray guns, gadgets, the whole bit.
- We'd have romantic supervillain-style heists and plots, possibly drawing on Andrew's own experiences (jewel theft, etc.)
- We'd have a larger-than-life comic book-style Big Bad, with the sort of organisation that could match the good guys', with a tendency to make Big Mustache-twirling Speeches, and with just enough of a Master Villain Code to not simply kill his enemies.
- We'd have characters indulging in exaggerated hero worship of the equally larger-than-life Buffy, the Slayer of the Vampyres. Because the story needs to be told.
- We'd have a few rehashed storylines based on his slightly askew view of the characters.
- We might well get a storyline in which Warren never died (Andrew still has some feelings for him, after all) and Willow's murder of him is undone much like Andrew tried to undo his own murder of Jonathan. And of course, Willow wouldn't hold any grudge towards Andrew either.
- We'd have the biggest vampyre of them all - Dracula, slashy subtext and all. This is so obvious that Andrew even inserts himself to give the backstory on Dracula directly to the audience and swear that it's true (within this story, of course).
- And we would, of course, have a slightly idealised portrayal of Andrew, in which he was still a bit of a dork but also a very important and trusted member of the organisation. We might even get a mention of Andrew right at the beginning of #1, in which it's implied that he's pulling strings and planning everything behind Buffy's back, just to hint at the fact that there's an unreliable narrator at work here. Damnit, it would be almost Nabokovian.
The only problem I see with this theory is the total lack of Spike in the comics; Andrew's a bit of a Spandrew fanboy, after all. But hey, we haven't seen much of what he's up to in Italy. (That is to say, what the Andrew of "Season 8" is up to in Italy; whatever the Andrew of the TV series would be up to, he would obviously have enough time on his hands to update his fanfic regularly.)
As to what would really be happening post-"Chosen" if this were true... well, it might bear a vague passing resemblance to "Season 8", but who knows, really?
;-) x as many as you see fit.
Oh well. Now I'm going to watch Torchwood and Dr Who back-to-back.
stormwreath, don't hate me for this one, but...Some people ;-) have been remarking that much of "Season 8" reads like rather cracky fanfic. But as has been pointed out, the original creator of a canon can't, by definition, write fanfic about it. So the question then would be who's writing it?
Then I read Dead Letter, and in one of the comments
stormwreath writes: I've come to the conclusion that "Antique" represents events as narrated by Andrew in his lecture to the Slayers. It's how he imagines things happened, with only a passing resemblance to the truth.So I started thinking about... OK, this is silly, but just work with me here: what would Buffy the Vampire Slayer be like if it were narrated by Andrew? Especially post-s7 Andrew who has done some growing up and isn't completely irresponsible, but not nearly reliable either? Just a few guesses:
- We'd have a big, exaggeratedly spy-movie-style organisation, where Buffy would make James Bond look low-budget and lo-fi in comparison. Castles, helicopters, jet planes, ray guns, gadgets, the whole bit.
- We'd have romantic supervillain-style heists and plots, possibly drawing on Andrew's own experiences (jewel theft, etc.)
- We'd have a larger-than-life comic book-style Big Bad, with the sort of organisation that could match the good guys', with a tendency to make Big Mustache-twirling Speeches, and with just enough of a Master Villain Code to not simply kill his enemies.
- We'd have characters indulging in exaggerated hero worship of the equally larger-than-life Buffy, the Slayer of the Vampyres. Because the story needs to be told.
- We'd have a few rehashed storylines based on his slightly askew view of the characters.
- We might well get a storyline in which Warren never died (Andrew still has some feelings for him, after all) and Willow's murder of him is undone much like Andrew tried to undo his own murder of Jonathan. And of course, Willow wouldn't hold any grudge towards Andrew either.
- We'd have the biggest vampyre of them all - Dracula, slashy subtext and all. This is so obvious that Andrew even inserts himself to give the backstory on Dracula directly to the audience and swear that it's true (within this story, of course).
- And we would, of course, have a slightly idealised portrayal of Andrew, in which he was still a bit of a dork but also a very important and trusted member of the organisation. We might even get a mention of Andrew right at the beginning of #1, in which it's implied that he's pulling strings and planning everything behind Buffy's back, just to hint at the fact that there's an unreliable narrator at work here. Damnit, it would be almost Nabokovian.
The only problem I see with this theory is the total lack of Spike in the comics; Andrew's a bit of a Spandrew fanboy, after all. But hey, we haven't seen much of what he's up to in Italy. (That is to say, what the Andrew of "Season 8" is up to in Italy; whatever the Andrew of the TV series would be up to, he would obviously have enough time on his hands to update his fanfic regularly.)
As to what would really be happening post-"Chosen" if this were true... well, it might bear a vague passing resemblance to "Season 8", but who knows, really?
;-) x as many as you see fit.
Oh well. Now I'm going to watch Torchwood and Dr Who back-to-back.
