Hmm. I only read it once and I think it didn't hold up for me for some silly reasons. First, I always had in my mind that Dru got sick from being attacked by an angry mob - and it seems like they were both attacked - but that's not why she got sick - so it just didn't fit with my picture of what happened as far as show canon.
I've always assumed that something unusual was done to Drusilla, as she continued to grow weaker even after being brought to Sunnydale. That wouldn't gibe with simple non-lethal beating at the hands of a mob, or even being set on fire after what we saw in "Redefinition" and "Crush." Though I envisioned some kind of torture involving Inquisition types using holy water or communion wafers and wine, not Captain Gideon's apocalypse box from Crusade.
First, I always had in my mind that Dru got sick from being attacked by an angry mob - and it seems like they were both attacked - but that's not why she got sick - so it just didn't fit with my picture of what happened as far as show canon.
This is one of the reasons why I really liked the story, that things didn't happen the way we thought they had (presumably because stories get exaggerated and change as they pass from one person to another), and it still fit in well with cannon, imo.
I thought the twist of the Spike and Dru story was just the irony of Spike declaring eternal love before setting on the path that would change all that. But yes, less impressive than the Whedon story.
Interesting rumor is going around on the comic boards.
The new writer for the New X-Men title is supposedly Joss Whedon. There is a implication that this hasn't been announced yet because they need to finesse their way around his employment contract with the studios.
How accurate is this? It's on more than one site, and supposedly with independent confirmation, but it is still a rumor. I put it in more than fifty/fifty correct, but not much more than that...
Wanna talk over in Bitches?
Is this true? Joss is writing X-Men?
Not that I'm the expert - but the last thing I saw in print was in Wizard magazine and it said he had been mentioned (but it didn't even say he was an official mention - just like a "wouldn't it be cool if") and the odds were 50 to 1.
I think they are even higher than that. For a tons of reasons, mostly time. And him not having enough of it.
