What is on screen is not carved in stone.

perhaps, but until something or someone contradicts it, it's canon.

until something or someone contradicts it, it's canon.

Ayup.

I know meta doesn't countcount, but if you know what he said and you know what he meant -- well, Occam's razor is more like a lightsabre at that point.

But in this case it's canon that somebody said "the line goes through Faith" or whatever. It's not canon that what they said was true.

I think Angel believes it when he tells Buffy that she's he only person he ever loved. I don't think it's true, but I don't dispute that he said it, or that he believed it. I don't think the characters are any more reliable when describing their own world than real people are at describing ours.

It's not canon that what they said was true.

I'm just lazy, I guess. Between not seeing any canon that contradicts the assumption, and knowing that the line wasn't written as being unreliable -- I'm not saying that it HAS to be that way, unto all eternity. Just that it's good enough for me right now, and I obviously don't get why people keep pointing out it mightn't be the eternal truth.

Maybe Tim could,if he ever gets awayf rom the tv and out the jammies,enlighten us on the whole slayer line thing.

If all the potentials were called all at the same time, the line would be so tweaked and weakened, that eventually it would cave in on itself. Bringing it back to one slayer, which techincally would be Buffy. Back to the begining.

Just thinking out loud.

And yes I agree about commentaries and what is shown not matching. Much like Spike saying"I will give the bitch what she deserved" and then commentary trying to tell us he emant the whole time to go and get his soul. That never rang true to me.

Maybe Tim could,if he ever gets awayf rom the tv and out the jammies,enlighten us on the whole slayer line thing.

You mean, because of all the Buffy episodes he wrote?

I suppose he has a more direct line to Joss than any of the rest of us, but I gather Tim has spent a lot less time than the board average religiously watching Buffy episodes.

You mean, because of all the Buffy episodes he wrote?

All my faves.

I have been kind of wondering why this conversation was here rather than in Buffy and Angel. Then I remembered that I was at b.org, and all made sense again.

As to why the First didn't just kill Buffy since her death would not have called another (harder-to-locate) Slayer -- I wanked that the First wasn't going after Buffy until more Potentials arrived. They were like lambs to the slaughter. Or, maybe, the First couldn't get a permit. I mean, if it had to work with FEMA or something, it might only have been cleared to kill off Potentials.

That's what you say.

Good point. I don’t exist after all, so how could I be standing anywhere?

Hey, The Narrator is extremely reliable, unless we're talking the BBS, in which case she is WRONG, and delusional (hi elusio).

I’m putting you on an infinite NEENER loop. You are hereby NEENERed to infinity.

I figured, since Tim was going to write the Faith series, he would be up to date on her background, staus in the line and what not...but that is just my opinion.