It never occurred to me that someone selected the next Slayer out of the pool of potentials. Hence the Council never knew of Buffy's existence until she was called.
Kaylee: Captain seem a little funny to you at breakfast this morning? Wash: Come on, Kaylee. We all know I'm the funny one.
'Heart Of Gold'
Buffy 4: Grr. Arrgh.
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Burrell - May 26, 2003 1:02:41 pm PDT #2366 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
sj - May 26, 2003 1:03:45 pm PDT #2367 of 10001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I just realized that now that Anya died all of the core four have had a love die.
amych - May 26, 2003 1:10:35 pm PDT #2368 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
It never occurred to me that someone selected the next Slayer out of the pool of potentials. Hence the Council never knew of Buffy's existence until she was called.
That's definitely something they've retconned -- and it's one of the things in s7 that really sits wrong with me. As you point out, the Council never knew about Buffy, and the moment of her calling was shown as something mystical. When Kendra showed up, we got the idea of potentials being identified and trained assuming that the council knew about them, but the calling was still, well, a calling.
It's only this season that we have, rather out of the blue, the suggestion that there was a selection process on the part of the Watchers or anyone else human.
§ ita § - May 26, 2003 1:11:22 pm PDT #2369 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It's only this season that we have, rather out of the blue, the suggestion that there was a selection process on the part of the Watchers or anyone else human.
I missed this -- when did it get said?
Cindy - May 26, 2003 1:11:30 pm PDT #2370 of 10001
Nobody
It's only this season that we have, rather out of the blue, the suggestion that there was a selection process on the part of the Watchers or anyone else human.
Where did we have that suggestion, this season?
Frankenbuddha - May 26, 2003 1:14:08 pm PDT #2371 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
It's only this season that we have, rather out of the blue, the suggestion that there was a selection process on the part of the Watchers or anyone else human.
Huh - I didn't get that at all. I thought the watchers found potentials and trained them IN CASE they were called, but they didn't know one way or the other. And I don't remember anything this season that contradicted that.
amych - May 26, 2003 1:14:30 pm PDT #2372 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Hmm... now that you mention it, I felt like it was being at least strongly implied, but I don't have a specific quote to point to. I'll have to do some script research this evening.
(I kinda hope I'm wrong, actually, because it really did bug me.)
Micole - May 26, 2003 1:15:14 pm PDT #2373 of 10001
I've been working on a song about the difference between analogy and metaphor.
I think my favorite insane LJ-ism so far is the person who claimed that Giles saying "Watch your elbow" in "Restless" was representative of the Watchers attempting to control Slayers (check), a male attempt to control female power (check), and therefore rhetorically equivalent to someone telling a girl not to wear a low-cut blouse because it invited abuse (lost me).
Cindy - May 26, 2003 1:18:00 pm PDT #2374 of 10001
Nobody
Nah - he was telling her not to throw like a girl (which shows he still retained vestiges of the bias inherent in the CoW, but I don't want to get all preachy, so I'll shut up).
Typo Boy - May 26, 2003 1:55:32 pm PDT #2375 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
No - I never got the feeling that anyone selected the slayers. My read is:
Way back a two part spell was cast.
Part1) - tapped into the power of dark magic to given superpowers to certain girls to fight vampires other demons.
Part 2) limited that power to 1 girl at a time - otherwise every girl with those characteristics would have gotten the power.
My feeling is that part of the selection process for part I was that they would tend to use that power for fighting demons - that most of them would not use it selfishly. Because of the whole "free will" deal there was not guarantee - but that they loaded the dice that way as much as possilbe.
And so when Willow the White got involved - she either just cast part I, but not part II, or since the actual word "recast" was use, recast Part I while repealing part II. (Part I was still Black magic though - so her becoming Willow the White is an argument for her simply repealing part II.)
And I realize that this has absolutely nothing to do with Cindy's point, which is quite correct. It is just a side-note her post sparked that interests me.