Wolves at the Gate, Part 4 (!)
Genuinely I can say that this issue of BTVS was the first time I felt legitimately like I was watching an episode of the show. Which is nuts, because it was entirely based around content that could not possibly have been featured on the television program - Giant Dawn robot fight in the streets of Tokyo, etc.
What it felt like, though, was the stakes of the show - where characters enter and exit, succeed and fail, rally around each other in unexpected ways, and come away changed by the events therein. That's what's basically been lacking from arcs 1 and 2 of this comic - no real growth. WatG, however, really felt like a grand finale of something, setting up and paying off relationship after relationship while still fitting into the overall scheme. And not a hint of Floating Boots to be found. Sublime.
(I've figured out who Floating Boots is, by the way. It's Captain... Malcolm... Reynolds!! Sweet.)
Comments
My latest bet on Mr. Floating Boots is Riley Finn. Revealing who Mr. Floating Boots is will only have a big payoff if we know who it is. If they show the person's face and it's someone unknown, then why bother to hide it in the first place? So looking at old Buffyverse characters who haven't been used yet Riely makes the most sense to me. As Riley is someone who has connections with and would use the military and for a long time distrusted magic. Perhaps one of the slayers accidently killed his wife or something similarly tragic to push him off into Big Bad territory.
Posted by: Matthew Fabb | June 5, 2008 9:24 PM
Yeah I've considered Riley but I gotta say, while I hope we see him in Season 8 I don't want him to turn out to be Floating Boots. Ultimately Riley feels to distanced from the core mythology to really bring the pain as a big bad in the way that Angel did - and also, Riley's neck is never itchy. Never.
Posted by: tederick | June 6, 2008 8:32 AM
Sorry, this isn't about Wolves at the Gate - although I loved this arc, but about the Can't Stop The Serenity screening, next Sat, June 21st.
Yes, we are doing it again. Despite someone at Universal accidentally destroying a lot of the prints, we forge ahead!
Details at our blog. Any push you could give for it would be appreciated.
Posted by: Sheilah | June 13, 2008 5:38 PM