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Bad news, good news, other news. Cuts to spare the flist.

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It was while I was in Afghanistan that I first heard of Joss Whedon’s proposal to do a Buffy Season 8 — of full canonical status — through DarkHorse comics. I keep trying to track that, but have had no further word on it. Like many Buffyfic writers, my reaction is mixed: on the positive side, new Buffy has to be considered good news; on the negative, there’s no telling if I’ll like where they go, or if the new developments will Joss me in a way I’ve craftily contrived to evade until now.

Trekkies kept happily making fools of themselves until television finally produced a new Star Trek series. Then another, and another, and another. I don’t know if that will happen with the Buffyverse (doesn’t seem impossible, given the success of the show and the number of people still loyal to the concept), but the point is that the unrepentant silliness of the Trekkies resulted in something concrete, years after the object of their devotion had been deep-sixed by the networks.

Basically, it means that love is never wasted.