Version 7.0ish. Digital Humanities. Running. Pedagogy. Linux.

Yvonne Navarro, author of some of the Buffy The Vampire Slayer books out there right now, has a rather pissy rant up on her website about some of the really negative reviews she has received on Amazon. In said rant she scolds fans for attacking spelling errors in her books and various plot issues. Ms. Navarro goes on to rant more about “the industry” and a lot of obvious stuff about the corporate machine trying to spit her books out faster than she can edit them. That is great and all, but then she goes on to scold the fans for these things.

Why blame the fans? Why not blame those at the top who decided to mess with the plots of her BTVS books (some of which, apparently go pretty far out of canon) and sacrifice editing time for spitting out a crappy book. Why not blame those who make her push out a book so quickly? By pushing the blame towards her readers Ms. Navarro, whose work in the Tales Of The Slayer book I did enjoy, is really only taking part in the bullshit she says she doesn’t like.

Joss Whedon had this to say at a convention last week about a pretty amazing story that was tossed around during BTVS’s final season

Secondly – a short summary of the Tara thing – in one of the final episodes of the series like 3-4 before the end. He was going to have an episode where somehow Buffy is given aone wish and she could have anything – and the episode would revolve around her being tormented over what to wish for. Ay the end she walks into Willows room with a pair of new shoes talking about how they are the best shoes ever. After going on and on over the shoes – Willow is upsey and ask Buffy did she use her one wish for the new shoes. Buffy tells her no and then leaves the room, Willow then turns around and Tara is standing behind her. He said he wanted to end it on one of then having a happy relationship – again to throw everyone off.

That would have been pretty amazing. It’s too bad Amber Benson couldn’t/wouldn’t come back. I’m sure one of the better fanfic writers out there could pick this one up and do great things with it.