Actually, the primary purposes of the retcon was to
undo MJ and Peter's marriage. Marvel editorial has been itching to undo that for a while, with the Parker Clone saga being an earlier attempt that went of the rails
It was just that while they were doing that, they decided to tidy some things back up, and sort of reset the character at the iconic ideal...
As for JMS, he didn't like the mechanism they used to do it, thought of it as sloppy writing. He debated taking his name off it, was convinced not to but had editorial share writing credit for it.
Buffy #10:
Parker
reference!
On the other hand, the whole
Kennedy
thing brought my suspension of disbelief crashing to the ground
Ef explaining what I'm talking about.
You know I was so glad for that tiny scintilla of info we
finally
got about the
thricewise
I was able to forgive the rest of the book for
making no sense
whatsoever.
I adored all the interaction between
Xander and still-giant!Dawn
and really loved the
"Anywhere But Here"
parts, because a well-done throwback to the show always makes me happy.
But the whole part about
Bad Things We've Done
-- the hell? So, did I read it correctly that Buffy and the Slayer army
robbed some sort of vault to fund the
Slayer army?
That's so whack-ass out of character that I don't even know where to start. I have a HUGE problem with that.
Steph, I think what
Buffy and Willow were seeing were things that when they started watching hadn't happened, but once they were seen, they became part of their current "reality." Don't forget, the reality field (or whatever the heck they called it) was unstable. I think those visions were more possibilties, than realities, even if it seemed like in the moment.
I had no problem with the
Willow/Kennedy parts. In fact, Willow saying she didn't want to have to choose between her and Buffy made me get all sniffly. I still don't like Kennedy, but I felt terrible for Willow.
man I never should have looked up "retcon" on Wikipedia. Now my head- she is all swimmy. I demand to know what is real and what isn't!
Heh, wait until you get to stetcons and the such...
OK I give up. Google says, "Did you mean to search for: stetsons?"
A stetcon is when you undo a retcon. Derived from the editorial/proofreader term "stet", which is to let the previous version stand...
Ah geez. I should have been able to figure that out. thanks.
