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§ ita § - Sep 23, 2005 11:32:13 am PDT #4160 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

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.


Got Life - Sep 23, 2005 11:48:20 am PDT #4161 of 10001
Life is eternal, Love is immortal, and death is only an illusion.

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.


sumi - Sep 23, 2005 11:49:03 am PDT #4162 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!

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?


Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 23, 2005 11:52:42 am PDT #4163 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

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.


libkitty - Sep 23, 2005 11:59:35 am PDT #4164 of 10001
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs

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.


Narrator - Sep 23, 2005 12:00:36 pm PDT #4165 of 10001
The evil is this way?

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.


Got Life - Sep 23, 2005 12:10:18 pm PDT #4166 of 10001
Life is eternal, Love is immortal, and death is only an illusion.

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.


Betsy HP - Sep 23, 2005 12:19:45 pm PDT #4167 of 10001
If I only had a brain...

Tim is too busy writing Allyson a pony.


Aims - Sep 23, 2005 12:24:43 pm PDT #4168 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.

Poor Pony and poor Allyson.

She's gonna love it so much and then something evil will gut it and kill it and make it glue.


msbelle - Sep 23, 2005 12:26:19 pm PDT #4169 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

my guess is on an evil monster named eeta.