My standard response to the "Joss said it's canon!" argument: "The Godfather III, the Star Wars prequels, and that Spider-Man story where Mary Jane gets cancer from Peter's radioactive sperm are also canon. They still suck and I reserve the right to ignore them."
I didn't like Season 8. It didn't have a good feel to it and some characters were completely assassinated (cough, Angel, cough), so I didn't read on. Until I started to hear good things on Season 10 on LJ. So I got the first collected volume and it was ok, so I might get the others at some point.
But it will never be canon for me. I read way to many fan continuations that were much much better.
My issues with the comics stem not from the lack of budget, but lack of responsibility from the writers. It's not that they went too big, it's that they put no legwork into setting anything up and making it work and as a result the mythology and characters were irreparably trashed.
For example, it wasn't a lack of budget that brought about the Buffy/Angel meant to be prophecy that everyone knew about retcon. It was just plain-old poor writing. And/or drugs.
I read the first comic season and they seemed to take the premise of "we're no longer restricted by a tv budget and can do what we want" to a rather ridiculous extreme. I'm happy with the end of the TV show and don't need more in comic form. Now a movie on the other hand XD
My standard response to the "Joss said it's canon!" argument: "The Godfather III, the Star Wars prequels, and that Spider-Man story where Mary Jane gets cancer from Peter's radioactive sperm are also canon. They still suck and I reserve the right to ignore them."
I didn't like Season 8. It didn't have a good feel to it and some characters were completely assassinated (cough, Angel, cough), so I didn't read on. Until I started to hear good things on Season 10 on LJ. So I got the first collected volume and it was ok, so I might get the others at some point.
But it will never be canon for me. I read way to many fan continuations that were much much better.
My issues with the comics stem not from the lack of budget, but lack of responsibility from the writers. It's not that they went too big, it's that they put no legwork into setting anything up and making it work and as a result the mythology and characters were irreparably trashed.
For example, it wasn't a lack of budget that brought about the Buffy/Angel meant to be prophecy that everyone knew about retcon. It was just plain-old poor writing. And/or drugs.
I read the first comic season and they seemed to take the premise of "we're no longer restricted by a tv budget and can do what we want" to a rather ridiculous extreme. I'm happy with the end of the TV show and don't need more in comic form. Now a movie on the other hand XD