Buffy : Season 8

1. bamph: I’ve just read issue 30 and while I get the WTF-hype for the ending,it actually didn’t cause a extreme WTF or pissed off reaction from me although I was confused by it. I suppose answers will come in January. My question isn’t about this though since I know someone will be asking soon enough.

I have questions about the new issue but I’ve got a general season 8 question to kick things off. With season 9 already mapped out, plotwise, would you say Joss is actually telling a two season arc/storyline and would you say the end of season 8 is more along the lines of Becoming, Restless and Grave which had more cliffhanger ends to those seasons and setup for the next vs. Prophecy Girl, Graduation Day, The Gift and Chosen which had more definitive end series feels even though they weren’t?

Scott Allie: Season 8 & 9 are two totally distinct seasons, as distinct as any of them. You’ll be following the same characters, for the most part, they’ll be changed by these events, but believe me, we would not drag you through 40 issues for a cliffhanger. Season 8 pays off.

2. AndrewCrossett: Buffy obviously has her powers (or some powers) back, plus more... able to survive a 50-foot fall uninjured, able to fly. Would I be off base in thinking the physical contact with that goddess had something to do with it?

Scott Allie: That’d be a fair guess, but it’s gonna take them some thinking to figure this out.

3. neowhobaz: do the goddesses play an integral role in the remainder of the series what with having godlike powers and all?

Scott Allie: Spoiler. Sorry.

4. Emmie: Can you comment on the writers’ choice of Tibet as the setting - was it partially chosen for Oz’s location, but also for the spiritual meaning found in Buddhism of "letting go, always letting go" of power and that by letting go, you truly find power?

Scott Allie: Yes and yes. But Oz himself is in Tibet because he was looking for a way to turn it all off. So they’re going after Oz to get help in releasing the power, and Oz himself had already gone to Tibet to get help to do just that. But yes, the location has everything to do with the theme of the story at this point. Now we’re sort of stuck in Tibet ... I think Brad finds himself thinking, Really? We’re still in Tibet?

5. Emmie: When the scene shifts to "Five Hours Later," the valley is covered in snow. Is this meant to be a natural occurrence or did the Goddesses finally leaving the valley cause this abrupt change in weather? (I’m leaning towards the latter because of the magic changing both Buffy and the landscape around her.)

Scott Allie: I can’t believe you’re not mentioning the flying. Yeah, the goddesses brought the snow. Really what happened was Adam painted snow on the cover, and we thought that was cool, so we had the snow hit when the goddesses were active, and then kick up later.

6. bamph: I loved Twilight’s reaction to Amy and Warren bickering. It seems Twilight’s reaction to Riley being a triple agent spying on him for Buffy was played where you could read it as him knowing all along or figuring it out at that moment. Warren even asks him this before Amy and him start arguing. So is the issue intentionally being ambiguous on whether Twilight knew Riley was playing him the whole time or not because it is a question that will be answered later on?

Scott Allie: You’ll soon get answers on Twilight. But I thought it was fairly clear that Twilight knew, and wasn’t commenting much.

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