History Headscratchers / BuffySeason3

The vampires didn’t really took control of the city as much as terrorize it by the nights. Sounds a lot like Detroit or Ciudad Juarez, hardly enough for the government to send the Military to handle the issue, especially in the case of a very small town in the middle of California. We have cities in real life that are not so different than Sunnydale in The Wishverse.

* Possibly another case of "I forgot, OK?" on JossWhedon's part, but bear with me: in "The Wish", Anya's first appearance, Giles says that destroying her power center will cause all the wishes she's ever granted to be canceled and it works, so supposedly they were, but in season 6 (and some other cases I can't really remember), it's explicitly shown that the wishes weren't undone - this guy Anya turned into a demon decades ago was still a demon. It's even shown at a certain point that she caused the Russian communist revolution, so wouldn't that have been undone as well? I realize this is probably just BroadStrokes, but I had to.

** That's a problem I've had with that episode too: how much more awesome would it have been to really follow up on the what-if premise from "Prophecy Girl", to have the Hellmouth open, demons wandering the Earth and the traumatized remains of human society clinging to a threadbare veneer of daylight normalcy (in other words, kinda like what we saw in Wishworld Sunnydale, except it's like that ''everywhere''). It's tempting to say that's outside the scope of a TV show, but Joss eventually did exactly that sort of story in ''{{Dollhouse}}'', and it was incredible. But anyway, as for Darla, I'd guess that the White Hats fought and killed her in one of their early battles. The Master's disciple Luke is also missing: if Giles and the gang staked Luke and Darla early on, the Master might have captured and turned Xander and Willow into his new disciples as his way of evening the score.

*** Most Buffy episodes involve the Scoobies taking on a monster of the week, and while most of those monsters of the weak will have successfully menaced Sunnydale, equivalent monsters of the week will have been beaten back by Buffy in Cleveland. Sucks for Sunnydale, but Cleveland is better off. Furthermore, several monsters of the week are somewhere between slightly and extremely likely to take Giles' side of the fight, not the Master's. Amy's mother Catherine, for example, will successfully witch her way onto the Sunnydale High cheerleader squad and thus be invested in the status quo, and side with Giles against the vampiric invaders. Marcy from Out of Sight, Out of Mind might also end up taking Giles' side in the long run. Plus, we know that a different gang of Scoobies was assembled by Giles, one that's likely far more prone to taking losses...But it was only slightly smaller than the Scooby team in the main Buffyverse, which implies that it's had several times as many members as the Buffyverse Scoobies. In addition, the Master and the Mayor are not going to get along, and although neither of them are likely to side with Giles, the conflict between the two gives the good guys some breathing room. The Master also appears to have won, putting the Mayor's ascension plans permanently to rest. Spike came to Sunnydale looking for the Slayer to add another notch to his belt. He probably would've headed to Cleveland instead in the Wishverse, and without Angelus around to even up the odds, he almost certainly would've gotten himself and Drusilla staked by the end of the Wishverse's season two.

***** As a minor, it's unlikely Jonathan was able to purchase a gun legally for his suicide plan, and until Season 6, he didn't really seem like someone who'd be likely to have black market connections. As someone above said, there's a good chance the gun was his dad's, or another relative's, and he had to settle for whatever he could get his hands on.

** Wasn't there an episode in Season 2 where the government tried to recruit Willow right out of high school after seeing her aptitude test results? That might turn a few college recruiters' heads.

** Xander was perhaps not quite as bad as the beginning of the episode showed, but he was still basically the laughing stock of the scoobies outside of their group. Take another look at the episode. It is not showing how cool he is in the group, it is showing how uncool he is to everyone else. The scoobies never think of him as uncool, and do think of him as an integral part of their circle. Outside of that circle he is that same guy we see skateboarding and falling like a schmuck on site of a pretty girl in the first episode. The episode deals with a distinct turning point in his character and a change in HIS viewing of himself through other people's eyes. It is about how he turns from the awkward kid to a kick-ass hero. And look at the change in his character afterward. He lives up to the change and is no longer just comic fodder. Well... not ''just''.

** She was probably either taken away by a vampire or buried under the rubble when the school exploded. After the explosion, emergency services arrived. Who, exactly, would be able to take a roll call of survivors in the middle of the subsequent police investigation?[[/folder]]