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Friday 24 September 2004, by Anonymous : I wanted to say that I enjoyed reading this article. There are good points. Who is this guy and where can I read his fanfiction?Friday 24 September 2004, by Gnarl : I only made it through the first couple of paragraphs. This vision is too dark for me. I never would have been hooked on Buffy if it had been an as dark as this. You could imagine the gore without having to see all of it, but this author seems to want to show everything. To fill our minds with the taste of blood, with the smell of fear, to choke us with it. The kind of shock value suggested here would limit Buffy’s appeal to afficianodos of gore. Not that they aren’t welcome, but I want to be welcome also.Friday 24 September 2004, by aerialla : I loved the posters vision of a truly dark Buffy. I have studied the cutural vampire phenomenon for over twenty years. When you get down to the nitty gritty truth in the folk lore. It wasn’t nice and romantic filled with bright colors and sunshine. It was about death and destruction, manevolence on an unfathomable plane, torture and glee in everything combined. It would have been interesting to see that side of Buffy, but would be considered too dark for the general population. Something like that wouldn’t be appreciated unless your a devoted fan to psychological horror, a freak, or so dark that it makes your life look normal. Saturday 25 September 2004, by Hallie : Forced, moany angst (like that found in AtS) doesn’t equal "elegance." Buffy didn’t need to be so blantantly dark; that show had a little something called *subtlety*, which in my mind makes it much classier than this guy’s over-the-top fantasy version. There were a number of dark undertones throughout the early seasons, and, well, didja *see* season 6? And I loved how the show would undercut the melodrama with humor. It would rip on the genre’s lovable conventions, but that didn’t make it cheesy, it made it clever. True, they were all a bit one-dimensional at first; but after seven years, they formed one of the most densely layered cast of characters in TV history. Actually, I think the show may have benefited from being on network TV; it challenged the writers, letting them come up with creative and (there’s that word again) subtle ways to deal with dark, complex themes. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve no problem with the kind of show this dude seems to dig (they’re usually the best kinds of show - teehee), but I’m not bogged down by ’if-only’s when it comes to one of the greatest series of all time. Joss & co. couldn’t have hoped to make a better show. Saturday 25 September 2004, by Anonymous : meh, i don’t really care for this reinterpretation of btvs and angel. it dips too much into the S&M and anne rice routine. i liked the subversion of these kinds of stereotypes way more. dark is fine, scariness is great. but this isn’t jossverse material. Saturday 25 September 2004, by Anonymous : he mentions Buffy in The Wish- but unless this character constantly undermined herself by showing a vulnerable side, we would never be able to connect with her, like we can with buffy of season 1-5. something like 6feet under is now getting boring into its 4th season- they have shocked you as much as possible and now there is nothing left. would Buffy have lasted as long as it did? would people not have got bored of it after a while? become de-sensitised? the only shocking show that still wokrs for me is The Shield- all the others have just lost effectiveness. i like the thought of this kind of Buffyverse, but in a movie, rather than in the TV show, or maybe it was just menat to be written by a host of Fanfic writers!Sunday 26 September 2004, by Gabby : I have to agree with the whole Xander needs more charater deal.. I mean he lost an eye and u know.. He STILL didn’t get a plot. Xander was just.. there. Like Dawn, but dawnnie had a point for being there.. Xander didn’t other then the fact that everyone else cared for him. Although.. I disagree about Anya. I always found Anya to be a very intresting charater. Although, I would loved to see how their relationship would work out with everything that happened. Also.. Maybe the vengeance jobs Anya had worked on would be better detailed and more extream. And, Imagian what would come out of her mouth with out the TV sensors? Monday 27 September 2004, by bucketmouse : I for one preffer the actual BtVS to this version. Yes, sure, this is all dark and ooooo scary, but one of the things I was displeased about at the end of angel was because it went to the "The ends justify the means!" area. As one of my good friends observed "Being a hero doesn’t mean everything you do is right. Doing things that are right make you a hero." which is what a lot of Buffy was about. (To quote the scene in "The Gift": Giles: "Can you move?" Ben: "Need a ...a minute. She could have killed me." Giles: "No, she couldn’t. And sooner or later Glory will re-emerge and make Buffy pay for that mercy... and the world with her. Buffy even knows that, and still she couldn’t take a human life. She’s a hero, you see. She’s not like us." Ben: "Us?") Buffy manages to have dark but never forgetting the light. Never giving in to pop-culture fanatacisim with the ’Dark and Sexy Evil’. (Well, maybe once or twice, but it gets over it.) Always coming down to the idea that wrong is WRONG, it doesn’t matter who does it, it doesn’t matter if you’ve always played the Hero. Also, on a snarky note, this idea of Buffy seems... *WAY* to oversexed. Serious Freud-age while reading it. If this were Buffy, I would NOT have gotten interested in the series, probably. These comments are an anwser to this article : A Darker Buffy - What Buffy Would Have Been Like on HBO or Showtime
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