Here is where you can discuss chapters 1-8, pages 1-108, of Slayer!
Not to mention Gwendolyn Post apparently had a daughter. Like, we get it, this is part of the Buffyverse, but we don’t need a reference to the show or comics on every single page and half the characters.When I read: "since Buffy—the Slayer who single-handedly destroyed almost our entire organization" I thought I was going to have problems with it. And then when it started going on about the Seed of Wonder... I still don't really know what that was or did or anything. I didn't realize that I should have read the comics to read the book. I could go without being reminded every other page that magic is broken and the consequences for it. And I could have done without a Wyndam-Pryce showing up as well.
At the end of the first chapter I am not sure if I really wish to continue. We'll see.
Maybe I'll try to look at it in that light going forward. It was just combined with all the name dropping it felt they were trying so hard to be a part of the Buffyverse rather than just telling their own story.If anything I found it interesting to see how those huge, world changing, events in the comics actually affected people other than Buffy herself and her gang.
Think back to the endish of Chosen. When the slayers were activated. I can't remember all of the montages but it seems like their slayerness kicked in during a moment that required something of them. I can remember the girl at bat, the woman getting (implied) beaten on. Can't remember the others but, yeah, I could see that being the intended purpose of it. When they needed it, they become the slayer.Did we know this?
"But Potentials become Slayers when they ... encounter a moment that requires something of them. "
I just read that as them getting activated because the spell activated them at that moment, so it would've happened even if they chilling on the couch (but that wouldn't have been as good of a visual).Think back to the endish of Chosen. When the slayers were activated. I can't remember all of the montages but it seems like their slayerness kicked in during a moment that required something of them. I can remember the girl at bat, the woman getting (implied) beaten on. Can't remember the others but, yeah, I could see that being the intended purpose of it. When they needed it, they become the slayer.
That's how I read it too, until the excerpt from the book. You can see that maybe that was the attempt in show.I just read that as them getting activated because the spell activated them at that moment, so it would've happened even if they chilling on the couch (but that wouldn't have been as good of a visual).
I assumed that was because of the death of a slayer. Willow's spell changed the manner in which they were activated from being due to a death to being due to situational needs; as now every potential was a slayer when the situation arose.This just makes me curious what it was that then activated Buffy once upon a time?
I thought that too. Only not quite as good.Very Anne Rice Talamasca-esque