I think we can be pretty certain about #1. But I understand Jon's point, and I also understand we wanted the FAQ to be free of major S7 spoilers. And yeah, the writers can change their minds tomorrow about thisor any point.
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Bureaucracy 1: Like Kafka, Only Funnier
A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
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Lyra Jane - Feb 16, 2003 9:36:01 am PST #4427 of 10001
Up with the sun
§ ita § - Feb 16, 2003 9:44:01 am PST #4428 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm in the camp where we can't be sure of #1, since if a new slayer turns up in Sunnydale, there are plenty of easy and plausible reasons why we hadn't met her yet.
Anathema - Feb 16, 2003 10:16:15 am PST #4429 of 10001
Jonathan Will Always Be My Hero
1. we don't know absotively posilutely that a new Slayer wasn't called after The Gift, and
2. The writers could always retcon that because death #2 was a mystical death, it didn't trigger the slayer-calling-doohickey.
Using this logic, what's the point of the new FAQ? We don't know anything absotively if you put it to that test.
It's as if we were saying that we don't really know Willow is gay because she's been with a guy and the writers could always change their minds.
Cindy - Feb 16, 2003 10:21:45 am PST #4430 of 10001
Nobody
We can't be sure of either number 1 or 2.
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And this story line with the SiTs is likely to send anything we get too specific on - arse over tea kettle. I'd limit it to comments that mention that off-screen, Joss has said the line runs through Faith but that was subject to change if he got a better idea and leave it as such.
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And maybe a link to Cindy's essay on the subject.
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Yeah, except Mere, DeKnight and Bell might have just frigged that all up too, last week - having Cordelia speculate on why Angel can't remember the Beast but Angelus can. I forget her exact words, but they pretty much tied memory to soul. This of course, is a ridiculous tie, because ANGEL REMEMBERS ANGELUS'S EVIL DEEDS BECAUSE THAT'S PART OF THE CURSE TO REMEMBER AND FEEL REMORSE and oh, yeah - that makes me really ranty, so I'm pretending it didn't happen. Carry on.
Jon B. - Feb 16, 2003 10:22:00 am PST #4431 of 10001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
It has never been stated onscreen that the slayer line now runs only through Faith. Period.
Cindy - Feb 16, 2003 10:22:38 am PST #4432 of 10001
Nobody
Exactly, Jon.
Burrell - Feb 16, 2003 10:40:58 am PST #4433 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
WRT Cindy's comments on Angel: Right. On. Target.
esse - Feb 16, 2003 11:58:25 am PST #4434 of 10001
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
Cindy--write another brilliant essay on the subject. You'll have listeners.
Betsy HP - Feb 16, 2003 6:51:15 pm PST #4435 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
If a war starts, I'd like a War thread. I'd like a place to courteously and respectfully discuss what's going on. I don't want to poison Bitches or Natter for other people, but I'd like a Buffista place to deal with the Zeitgeist.
Is this possible? Could we keep it friendly?
Burrell - Feb 16, 2003 6:55:31 pm PST #4436 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
sigh. thread proliferation....