re: Re: [buffywantswillow] OT: The calling of a new slayer

[Tater <tater@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:16 AM 6/5/00 -0700, you wrote:
>Regarding the subject of New Slayers;
>I wonder how much of the movie could be considered story canon. After all,
I seem to recall 
>that Buffy was a senior in the movie, but is a sophomore in the first
season. I know she 
>wasn't the best student in the world but really! I know that the movie was
written by Joss 
>Whedon, but I suspect that he had taken liberties translating the movie
into the TV show. 
>Then again, how many Kristy Swanson sites are there, in comparison to Sarah
Michele 
>Gellar sites?

I'm still here aren't I? Dang.

About the movie. Joss has said on many occasions that it got re-written
into garbage by other people. I just cited the movie as a source because
most people have seen it. My info really came from things that both the
movie and the comic book version of Buffy's origin as the Slayer agree on.
The comic book was adapted from Joss' original script, before it got
re-written. Supposedly, it is a lot closer to the story Joss originally
intended to tell. I think Joss said something to that effect somewhere, I
just can't find it at the moment. If you read the comic, Merrick dies much
differently. Also, Merrick originally tried to get Buffy to fight alone,
and was pretty much the anal control freak that seems to be typical of
watchers, but through the course of his relationship with Buffy, he pulled
his head out and started reconsider council policies. 


>
>Also, at this point, I'm inclined to not believe any current member of the
Watcher's Council if 
>they were to say that water was wet. Has anyone noticed that with the sole
exception of 
>Giles, every Watcher was either incompetent(Wesley) or corrupt(Quentin)? I
think that's 
>why Giles is so fond of Buffy. She's a rebel, she's a maverick. She
reminds him of him, 
>when he was Ripper.
>
>Also, remember that the Watchers drill it into their Slayers' heads that
they have to fight 
>alone. Hey, if it weren't for Angel, Xander, Willow(especially Willow), et
al, Buffy'd be 
>vamp-chow a long time ago! I honestly believe that the Watcher's Council
is secretly trying 
>to sabotage the cause. Hey, I think we may have our main plotline for
Season Five!(this is 
>purely speculation on my part, so in no way is this a spoiler. I could be
entirely wrong about 
>the Council. But I doubt it.)
>
>Kirayoshi


I don't think Quentin was corrupt exactly, and I don't think that the
watcher's council is trying to sabotage the cause, I think they have a
different problem. They have gotten too full of themselves. They think
they are the only ones who know what they are doing, that that their way is
the only right way. They've gotten so obssessed with being in control, that
they would rather command the slayer than assist her. Maintaining their own
power has become more important to them than defeating the evil. And of
course they cannot possibly ever admit that they are doing things wrong.
Hmmm... I haven't explained this very well, but I really, really have to go
now. I'll try again tomorrow if the discussion is still going. And it's
all just my own theory of course.


tater (Vegetables of the world unite!)