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
Set! Avenge! "Henshin." Black General! Bujin Sword! Ready, Fight!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.
Set! Avenge! "Henshin." Black General! Bujin Sword! Ready, Fight!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?
"That's right mortal. By channeling my divine rage into power, I have forged a new instrument in which to destroy you."…I’m not sure he would be game for that reference.
So do decapitations kill vamps in this universe?
You’re Gonna Carry That Weight.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
You’re Gonna Carry That Weight.And so the speculation begins… on what that right direction is.
Self-professed Wild Card who thinks cynicism isn't so bad.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
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.
You lost!…What about disabled slayers? Have there ever been slayers who were blind or deaf or paraplegic?
You’re Gonna Carry That Weight.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.
Comics are just words and pictures. You can do anything with words and pictures.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.
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.
Comics are just words and pictures. You can do anything with words and pictures.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.
Comics are just words and pictures. You can do anything with words and pictures.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.

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