Just, from sheer bewilderment... if the Slayer power is from the black evil demon slime, what about those times when the Slayer saved someone apparently on instinct, i.e Cave!Slayer, Faith killing the spider in Choices etc. Saving people seems bound up in the Slayer ethos, and I don't get how that got in there.

I agree it would have an impact. I guess I don't see becoming super strong, and having prophetic dreams as turning a person's life upside down, assuming the person is informed what has happened to her.

Am I going to become a target?

Yes, we don't know about that part. However, lots of people are targets for lots of reasons.

How many people do I injure by mistake?

Yes, we don't know this, either. Although in either Killed By Death or Helpless, it seems implied that it's not only strength that's imparted to slayers, but also speed, co-ordination and good reflexes, so I'd say you might injure one or two before you realized you were super-powered, but I can't see it being an accident you keep having. Even with normal human strength, you can control how hard you hit someone, etc.

Even with normal human strength, you can control how hard you hit someone, etc.

Or so you'd think.

My normal self stopped play punching a LONG time ago. Completely cannot gauge it.

I just don't see how superpowers don't rock my world.

And I think they can make something really grey and interesting out of it, if someday, Joss decides to continue the story of slayers. I wouldn't mind seeing it on Angel, even.

I'm really hoping Joss will pick this up in the next series of Fray. And it would be nice to see it passingly addressed on Angel. I really don't want Angel to be Buffy Redux. Not even one episode.

What if instead of talking about strength, we were talking about women getting a political voice, another form of power. Some may not have wanted it, some decided it was needed to fight oppression .

Gettting that power was of the good. Some choose not to use it, some use it for good, others don't.

t /poorly drawn analogy on a rainy Sunday with little coffee and real life issues clouding the brain

poorly drawn analogy on a rainy Sunday with little coffee and real life issues clouding the brain

Not so poorly drawn, as that's essentially the metaphor we're playing with here.

What if instead of talking about strength, we were talking about women getting a political voice, another form of power. Some may not have wanted it, some decided it was needed to fight oppression .

Gettting that power was of the good. Some choose not to use it, some use it for good, others don't.

Bless you Heather, and what Victor said.

Also the part where you don't recruit a spy without the spy's consent. It's too intellectually and emotionally demanding a job to be done unconsenting, and anyway, the spy could just embezzle money and flee to Kuala Lumpur.

? This is simply untrue - a spy (as opposed to an agent) is just as likely to be under duress as a willing participant. Read any Le Carre book - I can't think of one Joe who volunteered (I still think the Joe/handler relationship is the best analogy for Watcher/Slayer, and I think I wrote a mini-fic on the subject once.)

In unrelated news, I just this morning realized that Scott Hope is the "hope" in "Faith, Hope, and Trick." Where have I been all these years? t /dopey

Jim, I don't know as how I'd take Le Carre's word for it anyway. I mean, he's in the business of romanticizing secret agentdom, and it's very hard to make a bureaucracy romantic unless you bring in all sorts of artificial angst.

(I did intend spy and agent to mean the same thing, especially as regards a slayer, because she's a doer. Okay, I don't actually understand the difference between the two as regards international skulduggery.)

And usually, requiring someone to do something dangerous and secret without getting their okay first leads to violence and the de-secreting of secrets. Just out of spite, resentment, and ineptitude, aside from the whole "his heart's not in his work" problem.