I never use Council of Watchers, because it's pretty clearly "Watchers' Council" in the text.

I found "Council of Watchers" in Checkpoint and Revelations, through Mr. Pointy. Mr. Pointy only came up with 22 scripts with the word "council" at all (although "council" is used multiple times in many of those scripts). I agree "Council of Watchers" is less common, but I like it better. So there. :-P

>Though, 99% of the time, I just use the Council.

Most of the time, the scripts do, too.

Buffy's hardest, for me. Maybe her language isn't raunchy enough.:)

Sometimes, too much swearing from BtVS characters takes me out of the moment. I am not against it, by any means, but it has to be just so, for it to sound right to me. I don't object to it on priciple. This isn't a case of "oh my virgin eyes are so offended," but rather, because we seldom hear them swear, and when they do, the swears are mild enough to air on TV at 8pm, I'm just not used to it.

I found "Council of Watchers" in Checkpoint and Revelations, through Mr. Pointy. Mr. Pointy only came up with 22 scripts with the word "council" at all (although "council" is used multiple times in many of those scripts. I agree "Council of Watchers" is less common, but I like it better. So there. :-P

See, I've obviously been hitting the Lethe's Bramble...

I didn't mean to imply they don't use Watcher's Council (which I do think ought to be Watchers'). I just meant they also use Council of...

Argh. I'm in over-splainy mode. Shutting up now.

I know what you mean, Cindy. But I have to claim a Faith-exemption.(Heh...I'm like the Church of Dirty Words.)

Watchers' Council makes sense. It belongs to a whole lot of them. Just one Watcher wouldn't have a Council.

Oh yeah, erika. Faith totally says "Fuck." Totally. I practically hear it on my TV.

She's not against a well placed, screw though, either, even though it's milder.

All of the characters would swear in certain circumstances. I haven't read a lot of fic, but there was one (not by a Buffista--I should have added that, before) I can't even remember, for all the swearing.

I could see how that could be, it's not Ellroy, for fuck's sake.(Although I think he's a nasty misogynist, so thank God. Another place for Kay and her gun...but I digress.)

I get the idea that Council of Watchers would be more or less interchangeable with Watcher's Council, sort of along the lines of the Defense Department vs. Department of Defense. The same person might even use both terms in the course of one conversation, depending on which term fit the flow of words better at the time.

Oh, bugger, I knew I should have checked in here before I posted the thing on all the boards I do such things on. Oh, well. Perfection is an affront to the gods, or some such thing.

Anyway, it's all up in one big file at my website

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And thank you for the good words. I am rather pleased with the whole blessed thing.

edit: And the hanging quote is actually showing where a line got cut off. Buffy: "Where is Xander?"