Re: Buffy Spoiler (Amber Benson)

["amberbensonfan" <AmberBensonFan@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

--- In buffywantswillow@y..., danspector@w... wrote:
Not

Really

Spoilery

but

I'll 

Probably

Get

There

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Wow, Dan, major bitterness going on. Ouch, that's scorching. 
Problem is, I can't really discredit or fault any of your comments. 
The feelings of betrayal that ME quickly and efficently created this 
season run deep and true and even though I'm fairly new to the show 
and the online Buffy community I still feel like someone sucker 
punched me MANY times but I was just too blinded by false faith to 
believe that another punch wasn't going to come... but it did... and 
that was when they shot Tara. There's no question that Joss has 
amazing talents for writing and planning out arches for his plots and 
has great skills at making loveable characters (even his evil 
characters are loved to some degree). The problem was, he got too 
big of a head and too busy at the same time and handed the show over 
to Marti who wanted to follow in his footsteps. She just didn't have 
the skill Joss did and played up too much too soon and by the end it 
was way too late. She brought the characters into a whole different 
world and was unable to redeem them in the end.

ME easily crossed over into every dynamic of their fan base to piss 
people off. They alienated the X/A, B/S, W/T 'shippers while also 
flipping off the fans of each specific character when they made them 
do things completely "out of character" and then, on top of it all, 
he crossed over fandoms and went after the Dark Angel fans by getting 
that show canceled too. David Fury and the others seem to believe 
that the shows are so big right now that even when fans leave the 
show it won't hurt the shows themselves. Problem with that is, it 
may not hurt Buffy or Angel, but let's see just how popular "Firefly" 
and the others become without the fans he's come to rely on to line 
his pocket with riches.

My conflict, however, lies in though I'm really upset with how Joss, 
Marti, and the writers handled this season, I still greatly admire 
the awesome job all the actors did this season. They were handed 
thousands of pages of crap and still managed to pump out stellar 
performances, even if it wasn't how we really wanted to see the 
characters behave. Because I appreciate their work and the insane 
amount of time and effort they put into the show and not to mention 
my own extra appreciation for Aly and Amber, I think I will continue 
to tune in for the next season, especially if Amber will return in 
any capacity.

If anything, fans should continue to support their favorite actors or 
the group in general but boycot any further ME based productions, 
such as Firefly, if they want to. That's likely what I'll do, 
personally. I just hope that after her long awaited vacation and 
rest, Amber will soon be seen again in television and movies.

That's my two cents :-) (Okay, so it was more like a dollar's worth, 
but who's counting lol)

Jude




> Still bitter,
> 
> Dan