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#1901: Feb 5th 2025 at 4:16:21 PM

Wasn’t the old Slayer system abolished at the end of Season 7?

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#1902: Feb 5th 2025 at 5:33:39 PM

It was by having all potential Slayers be activated at once.

Angel's last season even had 1 episode where they dealt w/ a girl who turned out to be a Slayer who just activated and went on a rampage. In the end they had to hand her over to Andrew and the other Slayers since they're the ones who're most equipped to helping her.

Edited by KRider on Feb 5th 2025 at 5:35:28 AM

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#1903: Feb 6th 2025 at 1:55:55 AM

Dana, right. I always wondered what happened to her.

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#1904: Feb 6th 2025 at 2:13:40 AM

Not sure if the comics covered her fate but what made Dana more dangerous is that she was already abused and drugged by a serial killer long before she was rehabbing in the hospital when she activated. The episode also highlighted how the Scooby Gang no longer trust Angel Investigations because the latter's now working under Wolfram & Hart. The best part was the discussion between Angel and Spike at the end where Spike said Dana's mental state and trauma combined w/ her Slayer power could make her a monster while Angel countered that she's just an innocent victim. Spike reminded Angel that both of them used to be innocent victims too at the start.

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#1905: Feb 6th 2025 at 7:31:16 AM

Anyway I think James marsters will at least come back. David too. They don't look super different so maybe they'll give some hand wave explanation for why they look a bit older.

I'd be kinda disappointed if the second and third most prominent characters in the verse didn't appear?

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#1906: Feb 6th 2025 at 7:32:28 AM

Spike and Angel would start an argument about who is who.

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#1907: Feb 6th 2025 at 7:34:54 AM

Also we need a dragon ball reference if James does come back

The joke would come back full circle now that he's an actual actor in it

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#1908: Feb 6th 2025 at 8:42:02 AM

…I’m not sure he would be game for that reference.

So do decapitations kill vamps in this universe?

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#1909: Feb 6th 2025 at 9:25:11 AM

Bump: Sarah Michelle Gellar has posted on Instagram about the reboot. She says this is indeed in production and she will only do it if they are confident they can get it right, but they are going in the right direction right now.

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Edited by BigBadShadow25 on Feb 6th 2025 at 12:34:26 PM

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#1910: Feb 6th 2025 at 11:30:08 AM

And so the speculation begins… on what that right direction is.

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#1912: Feb 6th 2025 at 11:55:58 AM

Jim Carrey said he would never do another movie and then he did Kick-Ass 2 and 3 Sonic films. Mark Hamill said he was done acting and he did 3 Star Wars movies, and he said he wouldn't voice Joker again and then he did DC Universe Online and some animated films and the Arkham games.

I have a lot of nasty kneejerk takes about actors acting like they don't like money, and the only actor I've known to turn down a returning role solely out of artistic integrity was Hugo Weaving (AFAIK), but I'll hold my breath that this sequel will be worth getting invested in.

Edited by FOFD on Feb 6th 2025 at 2:56:51 PM

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#1913: Feb 6th 2025 at 12:03:39 PM

As far as I know, Sarah never quit acting, she just wasn't sold on a Buffy reboot/sequel. Maybe I'm naive, but what she wrote seems genuine to me.

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#1914: Feb 6th 2025 at 12:59:29 PM

Why not?

He's a huge dragon ball fan and he now voices the most iconic and popular modern db vilain.

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#1915: Feb 7th 2025 at 12:54:53 PM

…What about disabled slayers? Have there ever been slayers who were blind or deaf or paraplegic?

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#1916: Feb 7th 2025 at 12:57:13 PM

No,slayers aren't exactly that diverse

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#1917: Feb 7th 2025 at 2:53:16 PM

There hasn't been a lot of exploration of specific slayers beyond the select few in the show; Buffy, Kendra and Faith all had similar power sets. Slayer abilities include Super-Strength, Super-Reflexes, limited precognition and a Healing Factor. It's supernaturally endowed, so there would be no assumption for someone handicapped given slayer powers that would cancel each other out and result in a normal person. A slayer losing an arm or being poisoned after the fact is different, the Watcher Trials showed a drug cocktail can reduce them to "normal" and season six also shows that mental health can compromise them too.

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#1918: Feb 7th 2025 at 3:03:53 PM

I always wondered if the Watchers would put down a slayer they considered "inadequate" so to call a more suitable slayer.

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#1920: Feb 7th 2025 at 3:55:41 PM

The Mayor in series 3 even has a policy that he wants to capture Buffy not kill her because he doesn't want to risk another slayer being called.

Makes you wonder if there was ever a slayer who spent years in captivity. Seems difficult considering Slayers are hard to keep down and the Watchers would try and intervene.

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#1921: Feb 7th 2025 at 5:07:33 PM

When Faith went off the deep end in season three Wesley called in a Watcher strike team to apprehend her, and Giles said it's happened before. Given Slayers always have a target on their back and there is no big caveat to the turnover (a new one is empowered immediately rather than months or years, they have natural instincts that makes training helpful but not mandatory) it's unlikely they would bother to speed up the process if one isn't working out, just let a dangerous job take its course.

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#1922: Feb 7th 2025 at 5:11:16 PM

So it’s possible for there to be a slayer with a disability?

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Whowho Since: May, 2012
#1923: Feb 7th 2025 at 5:33:50 PM

I think so.

Buffy's healing process isn't flawless, she still has scars on her neck from when Angel fed from her.

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#1924: Feb 7th 2025 at 6:44:24 PM

As I brought up, if they were disabled in some way before becoming a slayer then empowerment would likely override what they had before. So anything from asthma to multiple sclerosis to nerve damage would likely be repaired by the Healing Factor. Post-empowerment they otherwise are not notably more resilient than normal people and can be impaired. Faith took a knife to the gut, fell off a building and was in a coma for months. Buffy similarly took a knife wound and it took a few days to heal. If we're talking missing limbs then the before/after doesn't really matter, but whatever is left would still be empowered.

This is of course just speculation based on the existing canon, it was not especially consistent because of rotating writers and directors.

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RavenWilder Since: Apr, 2009
#1925: Feb 7th 2025 at 9:15:54 PM

Thing with Buffyverse worldbuilding is it was never meant to make sense. They tried not to directly contradict stuff they'd already established, but asking how the stuff works is a fool's game - they just came up with whatever made the plot/metaphor/joke they were going for work, with no attempt to make a cohesive or sensible whole of the thing.


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