I'm into the idea of the scythe, it's just that Fray and Buffy are two very different media. Even xovers between AtS and BtVS require some bit of explanation in the receiving show, unless the character originated there. Yeah, lots of devoted Buffy fans read Fray, but ME can't assume that they do.
As for the ending scene, right now the only way I can think of that would make it better would be if Spike's next words were, "Away from my man, bitch! See, 5 words or less!"
Oz is the highest-scoring person ever to fail to graduate.
Willow ,'Him'
Buffy 4: Grr. Arrgh.
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Madrigal Costello - May 16, 2003 2:55:27 pm PDT #452 of 10001
It's a remora, dimwit.
Vortex - May 16, 2003 2:56:27 pm PDT #453 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
don't know if these were posted earlier, and i skipped them, if so, apologies --
The early career of a Buffy star
smonster - May 16, 2003 2:57:21 pm PDT #454 of 10001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Teppy agrees with me! Yay! Does this mean you'll share Sean, too?
t /pushing my luck
Steph L. - May 16, 2003 2:58:31 pm PDT #455 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Teppy agrees with me! Yay! Does this mean you'll share Sean, too?
t warning glare...
P.M. Marc - May 16, 2003 2:59:53 pm PDT #456 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I didn't mind the axe. I did mind the seemingly pointless and content free Sister Galadriel Natter Guardian. A weapon I can buy -- a whole guild/organization/girl scout troop/whatev dedicated to looking after the slayers that haven't done jack in 7 seasons and don't have any actual advice to give before they get their neck snapped? NSM.
A-yup.
And, if the Slayers were created by the Shadow Men who became the Watchers, but the Order of Annoying Exposition Talky Meat Redshirts came FIRST, how did the FREAKING ORDER KNOW WHEN WHO HOW WHERE WHAT AND WHY? If the "Last Pure Demon" was slaughtered there, WHAT ABOUT THE EVIDENCE OF PREVIOUS ASCENDY THINGYS, LEADING TO THE VULCAN SLAUGHTHER??? Hmm, hmm????
ARGH!
Sister Galadriel Natter Guardian was the ass pull, not the axe. For the love of Mike, someone shoulda handed them a CONTINUITY BIBLE.
Jon B. - May 16, 2003 3:00:28 pm PDT #457 of 10001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
don't know if these were posted earlier
I think someone posted them a couple of years ago (what?! you don't remember?!).
Definitely worth the repost!
§ ita § - May 16, 2003 3:01:01 pm PDT #458 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
They had plenty of time (starting with Nikki's startling bag) to imply that there's a whole web of things that the Watchers never knew about the Slayers. But the shadowmen sort of came off as if they were the only secret -- but this mystery could have been tied into the unexplored insistences of darkness from both Drac and Spike.
It's like ... mystery shadow men? Okay. That's cool. Huh? An axe? Who knew? Glad we cleared that up. Oh, look a wise woman. That's just too neat. And now she's gone.
And we still have an amulet to go.
Madrigal Costello - May 16, 2003 3:02:28 pm PDT #459 of 10001
It's a remora, dimwit.
I agree about the useless Middle-Earth Mother. Now, I could buy that since she's not exactly of a race of immortals, she's going to be cautious. And maybe there is a history of persecuation by the CoW. But why would she wait seven years? If this weapon is meant to be used by the slayer, why not make sure she gets it as soon as she starts fighting stuff on the hellmouth? And it also seems weird that the CoW could have rendered them so powerless for so long. They could have just dumped cyanide in the tea and dumped some flesh-eating bacteria in the tweed. And if this woman is so weak that even Caleb can easily snap her neck, wouldn't she have found some other way of talking to Buffy, or at least been careful to keep her back to the wall?
P.M. Marc - May 16, 2003 3:03:14 pm PDT #460 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Eeeee! It's the CARROT TOP EVIL TWIN PICTURES!!!
I can't stop laughing at them. Someone I knew with hair like that (and from the same generation) used said hair to sneak 27 joints into a Led Zeppelin concert. Apropos of nothing at all.
Jeff Mejia - May 16, 2003 3:03:48 pm PDT #461 of 10001
"Don't think of yourself as an organic pain collector racing towards oblivion." Dogbert to Dilbert
Me, too. Because we first saw it in the Tales of the Slayers TPB, right? And then Fray #7, which I strongly suspect was delayed to be in synch with Buffy.
A quick comment - it actually showed up in Fray #6, which was published on March 27, 2002. The Tales of the Slayers has a publishing date of February 20, 2002. Joss has been thinking about the Axe for quite some time (although why he calls it a scythe I have absolutely no idea).