George the Fish - Yay or Nay?

What do you think of George the Fish in A:ATF?

  • Love the fish

    Votes: 12 38.7%

  • The only fish I want to see when I read A:ATF would come with chips.

    Votes: 19 61.3%
  • Total voters
    31
On Brian Lynch's blog he mentions a forum with a thread calling for George's blood. Do you think this one is the thread in question? some of the comments seem to suggest so.

Brian Lynch
 
Poor George! I don't want him to die! The poor fish already had to die once in order to be immortalized....he doesn't deserve to die again, he's just a cute little fish. Maybe a bit on the weird side, but cute!
 
I think fans are being way too hard on George and forgetting that not every character in the Buffy and Angel universes were created and developed by Joss in the first place. And neither was every major storyline in the Buffy and Angelverse. This is no different. One of Joss's writers created a character, Joss loved it, and so he gave it his stamp of approval. Same thing he did countless times on the TV show.

I think the difference here is that since it's so out in the open that George was not a Joss creation, and since it's such an outrageous character, it's naturally inviting all sorts of fans that are looking for something to be upset over so they can feel more involved.

The fish is so not the big deal people are making it out to be. Personally I enjoy the fish as a secondary character. But even if I didn't, I don't think I'd care enough to not like it or even waste my time telling anybody. The character's role is minimal and it's not interfering with any of the major character's stories. Really--what has the character done that people feel is such an injustice to the Angelverse? Nothing.

I think a lot of people need to just find something more interesting to latch onto for discussion than complaining about George. It's just petty.
 
Exitmat said:
I think fans are [...] forgetting that not every character in the Buffy and Angel universes were created and developed by Joss in the first place. [...] One of Joss's writers created a character, Joss loved it, and so he gave it his stamp of approval. Same thing he did countless times on the TV show.

I think the difference here is that since it's so out in the open that George was not a Joss creation.
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You bring up a very good point. I mean when you think about we know Joss made up Angel, Buffy Cordelia, Giles, Harmony, Willow, and Xander. But was he the also responsible for every single character created thereafter? People like Spike and Anya, maybe. Although those people could have been team efforts. But how about Gwen? And think about Dracula... he was a Bram Stoker creation and Marti Noxon turned him into a Buffyverse character, although the idea for the episode may have come from Joss. However, it was Drew Goddard who turned Dracula into a well-liked character.
 
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