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[beccaelizabeth]

That wolf suit differences poll I ran is 5:5 explain:ignore.

I say explain if one can think of a particularly interesting or amusing reason, but otherwise there's no harm ignoring.

But it is a bit of an interesting one. I mean, other characters changed actress, which is a pretty big thing. And other characters were the same actor, which is quite tricksy to ignore. But generally speaking, massive changes in biology would seem to be A Thing. Except for when they're explained by readers by this-world logic only.

Maybe the Buffyverse as we saw it is actually a selection of closely related alternate universes. This would explain any and all continuity difficulties - we tuned in to a slightly different 'verse this week.

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[antennapedia.livejournal.com]

I like to think of it this way: somewhere there is a Platonic ideal of a Buffyverse, where the story of Buffy truly happened. And the werewolves look wolfy, and not like monkeys in weird suits. The television show is a shadowy, flickering transcription of the real Buffyverse. Sometimes it does a great job of projecting images on the cave wall. Sometimes it botches it.

[beccaelizabeth]

I actually kind of like the monkey face suits, because you could get expressions. But then they mostly look the same, so not so cool.

Werewolves are really easy to not get right. The wolf face ones can look so tacky sometimes. Or fluffy. A fluffy werewolf has certain problems in the credibility department.