Well, I think Urkonn's using "called" differently. I though he meant "no Watchers ever came up to these girls and told them they were Slayers," but he specifically said that there were girls with the power.
I'm just, uh, just feeling kinda... truthsome right now. And, uh... life's just too damn short for ifs and maybes.
Mal ,'Heart Of Gold'
Buffy 4: Grr. Arrgh.
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Holli - Aug 13, 2003 7:16:39 pm PDT #4547 of 10001
an overblown libretto and a sumptuous score/ could never contain the contradictions I adore
esse - Aug 13, 2003 7:19:41 pm PDT #4548 of 10001
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
I don't know--I think he meant called as in chosen. And that rather than the power it was the potential. I think the spell was required for the actual calling, which from what we know now was disbanded.
I'd have to reread the comics to be sure though.
JoeCrow - Aug 14, 2003 12:37:59 am PDT #4549 of 10001
"what's left when you take biology and sociology out of the picture?" "An autistic hermaphodite." -Allyson
See, why would the Council go to pieces if there were still Slayers around? Just because there weren't any vamps left for them to slay? Hell, I can think of plenty of things to do with a superstrong teenage girl...
Y'know, that came out a lot pornier than it was in my head.
§ ita § - Aug 14, 2003 4:11:29 am PDT #4550 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
why would the Council go to pieces if there were still Slayers around?
Because they're outnumbered, and can't actually watch anyone.
Plus, they're mostly all dead.
Steph L. - Aug 14, 2003 4:25:16 am PDT #4551 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Hey, bewildered about season finale, what happens when the new Slayers die? I mean, is it still one dies, another is chosen?
I don't know if this is explicit, but I got the impression that Willow's spell essentially used up slayerosity and shot it all in one wad. Which would fit into Fray continuity sort of. But I could be wrong or Jossed.
In the latest Fray, Joss answered the letters (rather than whoever had been answering them), and he said that he Jossed himself on Fray canon with the whole multiple Slayers thing.
Cindy - Aug 14, 2003 4:29:56 am PDT #4552 of 10001
Nobody
In the latest Fray, Joss answered the letters (rather than whoever had been answering them), and he said that he Jossed himself on Fray canon with the whole multiple Slayers thing.
Sometimes, I think about Joss jossing, and then I do a joss by myself.
Connie Neil - Aug 14, 2003 5:10:47 am PDT #4553 of 10001
brillig
he said that he Jossed himself on Fray canon with the whole multiple Slayers thing.
See? He's just a fic-writer with a better budget. He's got the same problems we do. At least, that's what I tell myself in the middle of the night when I glare at the script transcripts that contradict a plot point I wrote two years ago.
Cindy - Aug 14, 2003 5:42:00 am PDT #4554 of 10001
Nobody
connie - I'm a professional fanwanker. What's your corner?
Burrell - Aug 14, 2003 8:23:52 am PDT #4555 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
See, it's been established for a while now that while Willow is Large With The Power, she's NSM with the Thinking Shit Through Beforehand.
Seems a bit harsh. The spell was Buffy's idea, not Willow's.
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 14, 2003 9:18:15 am PDT #4556 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
There's also the possibility that the Slayer power isn't so much a set charge of power passed from one girl to another as an alteration that allows the Chosen One to constantly draw magical power from the ether and enhance her physical abilities. That take on it would explain why Kendra and Faith didn't negatively impact Buffy's might.