Chosen... fourteen?

[Chosen Enemy]

Into every generation a slayer is born. One girl in the whole world.... wait! what? why? Wouldn't it be better to have more than one chosen girl in each generation? I mean, why only one? There should be hundreds, working together, fighting evil. More evil would be defeated, less girls would die or at least in a slower pace, the slaying would be much more efficient....

Should there be a few chosen ones in each generation, I mean before what Buffy did in the ending of season 7 that activated all the potential ones?

 

[sisterofmercy]

Having multiple slayers would make it hard for the watchers to control them I would have thought.

 

[zobothehobo]

I have always thought the one slayer didn't make any sense. I mean, just because there's a slayer doesn't mean that's the only place evil can happen. We saw in The Wish that it's pretty easy for the forces of darkness to set up somewhere the slayer isn't.

 

[Chosen Enemy]

Having multiple slayers would make it hard for the watchers to control them I would have thought.

Each slayer would have her own watcher I suppose.

 

[arabella]

Yes, having multiple slayers might be more beneficial to mankind...but that wasn't what the shadowmen created her for initially. They wanted one girl that they could control that would protect their specific group of people from demons, vampires, etc. If they made more than one then they could've taken over power in the tribe and undermined the authority of the shadowmen.

 

[white avenger]

Probably the "one Slayer at a time" rule originated because the Shadow Men originally only saw the vampire problem as local to their own area as opposed to being a world wide thing, or maybe at first it WAS just a local problem, but one that a single girl, no matter how powerful and savage a fighter she might have been, was unable to contain. By the time the real situation was realized, the wizards who created the First Slayer might have been dead and the spell lost with them, or the vampires might have actually killed them to prevent an army of Slayers being created.

For all we know, the Watchers might have actually welcomed some more Slayers, as long as they could control them, but until Faith came along, they had no idea that more than one Slayer could exist at any one time. It wasn't until Willow had access to the Scythe that the spell activating all of the Potentials was possible, and knowledge of the Scythe's existence was kept secret by the Guardians.

 

[sk]

Isn't it also about balance? The balance between good and evil.
Beljoxa's Eye was talking about it.

More slayers would mess thing up big time. Which I think we also have seen in the comics, or haven't we? I'm not sure what happens in the comics to be honest.

/SK

 

[SlayerFest]

I don't like the multiple slayers thing. I'm a huge fan of the "lone wolf"...thing haha I liked that Buffy was the one and only. Also, that spell clearly had repercussions. I mean did they not think that maybe there were some INSANE, homicidal potentials? Like Dana, for instance? Maybe if a few, like 2 or three were chosen...and not too randomly (maybe the PTB would preform a damn background check) that would be...okay. But they'd each live on a different continent! Hmph.

 

[Cast No Shadow]

I don't know, having one slayer seemed to work for Buffy (up until Chosen, of course). I guess it'd also be difficult if the slayers went all renegade vigilante like Faith.

 

[arabella]

[MENTION=8557]Skytteflickan88[/MENTION] we aren't sure of anything... However, I'd be willing to wager all I have that at the time of the Shadow Men, which was portrayed as an ancient and therefore isolated, nomadic culture, they may not have even know much about other tribes of people and certainly did not have a "global view." So, I'd imagine they were focused on protecting themselves and their people and probably weren't aware or concerned about other tribes... If they had a vamp problem, they could deal with it their own way.

 

[white avenger]

Isn't it also about balance? The balance between good and evil.
Beljoxa's Eye was talking about it.

More slayers would mess thing up big time. Which I think we also have seen in the comics, or haven't we? I'm not sure what happens in the comics to be honest.

/SK

As far as the balance argument goes, how does one solitary adolescent girl balance out all of the vampires and demons in the world? Certainly, Buffy did an excellent job around the hellmouth, but even in that one isolated area, she never achieved anything like a decisive victory against the creatures of the night. And even as nearby as Los Angeles, there is a thriving demon community, pretty much unopposed with the exception of Angel and his crew and Gunn's old gang.

The real problem with having multiple Slayers posted throughout the world is the difficulty on supervising them and coordinating their activities, something that the Watchers obviously weren't equipped to handle, something that is illustrated perfectly by how they mishandled just two Slayers. Multiply that by a thousand girls scattered all around the world, and the need for an apocalypse disappears. The Slayers, themselves, and their inadequate supervision, cause total chaos all by themselves. We got a small dose of that in Season 8, with Simone and her band of rogue Slayers, and it looks like we'll be seeing more of her in Season 9.