![]() We've learned already that Buffy herself feels somewhat excluded from this sense of community. He's repeating the same party line that others, such as Xander, have offered in previous issues. And Tom did his job really well.)Īndrew's opening voice-over about how the Slayers are one big happy family appears to be pretty typical of him. The better you do your job, the more the audience will hate you. It must be one of the most thankless tasks in acting, to play a character who's supposed to be aggravating. I'm starting to dislike him less than I did when he was on the TV show, but I have to admit my pulse doesn't race and my breath catch in my throat when I hear the news "this issue of the comic will be all about Andrew Wells!" (Though as I said to shapinglight, I'm not knocking Tom Lenk particularly. Plus, this was an Andrew-centric episode. Maybe my relative lack of excitement was due to the fact that I didn't have to dig so hard this month to work out what was going on. I'm thinking the reason could be because the emotional conflict and metaphor wasn't particularly subtle: Buffy has to confront someone who, essentially, is herself, or at least the version of herself that other people are seeing. It's a perfectly good issue, addressing some important thematic issues and moving the plot along nicely, yet it left me somewhat underwhelmed. In common with a few other people, my initial reaction to 'Predators and Prey' was strangely conflicted.
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