So long as it involves the actors, I'm open to it being canon. Say if there was a Buffy movie
But Joss writing a comic or novel, I'm less sure about. It doesn't seem to have much to do with the actual show, not when the Buffy tie-in stuff was always treated as extras, and often contradicted the main storyline on the show. The original description of Spike killing two slayers for instance. I never got the impression that novels and comics were supposed to be Buffy canon, or that Joss ever even read them
If the creator ( and by that I mean Joss not FOX etc ) writes it and deems it to be canon then to me it is canon even if I didn't like the storyline
The problem I see basing it on actors is that at the very very least SMG wants a number of years away from the role and James has his 5 year limit though I'm sure both could be amenable if there was sufficient incentive
I suppose that I really like Chosen being our final look at Buffy, as her new life is just about to begin.
If Joss had, in an interview, sat down and said how he saw the characters ending up after Chosen, that's sort of the same thing as the comics trying to continue Buffy officially IMO. Not exactly obviously, but for me Buffy was the show produced by the actors and the ME writers, not just Joss's vision alone. I mean Joss was the creater, but then there were a lot of other writers contributing, so I saw it more as a joint effort going into a tv show. So just Joss alone now writing the comics, isn't part of the tv show canon for me. A movie written by Joss, and starring the actors, probably would be though.
I get what you mean by the fact that it was also the vision of other ME writers and of course the actors contributed as well
Well in this case other writers are contributing so that is like the tv show
Has for no actor contributions well there is events in the tv show that we were told happened ,like Xanders adventures between season 3 and 4 or implied happened like Spike hooking up with Harmony (in early season 4 ) that we accept as canon
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Date: 2007-01-09 11:31 pm (UTC)But Joss writing a comic or novel, I'm less sure about. It doesn't seem to have much to do with the actual show, not when the Buffy tie-in stuff was always treated as extras, and often contradicted the main storyline on the show. The original description of Spike killing two slayers for instance. I never got the impression that novels and comics were supposed to be Buffy canon, or that Joss ever even read them
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Date: 2007-01-10 12:22 am (UTC)The problem I see basing it on actors is that at the very very least SMG wants a number of years away from the role and James has his 5 year limit though I'm sure both could be amenable if there was sufficient incentive
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Date: 2007-01-10 06:38 pm (UTC)If Joss had, in an interview, sat down and said how he saw the characters ending up after Chosen, that's sort of the same thing as the comics trying to continue Buffy officially IMO. Not exactly obviously, but for me Buffy was the show produced by the actors and the ME writers, not just Joss's vision alone. I mean Joss was the creater, but then there were a lot of other writers contributing, so I saw it more as a joint effort going into a tv show. So just Joss alone now writing the comics, isn't part of the tv show canon for me. A movie written by Joss, and starring the actors, probably would be though.
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Date: 2007-01-10 07:48 pm (UTC)Well in this case other writers are contributing so that is like the tv show
Has for no actor contributions well there is events in the tv show that we were told happened ,like Xanders adventures between season 3 and 4 or implied happened like Spike hooking up with Harmony (in early season 4 ) that we accept as canon