white avenger
white avenger
According to this article:
http://www.denofgeek.com/books-comics/26065/looking-back-at-joss-whedons-fray
In the paragraph directly below the 4th picture (Fray blasting Urkon)
It says, "During a history lesson which included the first slayer, Urkonn tells Fray that demons and magic were banished from 'this earthly dimension' by an unnamed slayer, whose fate remains a mystery. Although this didn’t really match up with the way in which Buffy saw out season seven (and then there was the comic books continuation), it was tantalising tease dropped into Fray, and one which cemented the book into the Buffy universe."
While that doesn't match up with the final battle in Season 7, the mention about "banishing magic from earth" does fit in with the final battle in Season 8, with the difference being that neither demons nor Slayer's army were banished in Season 8, hence my belief that the final battle in Season 8 was the final battle spoken of in "Fray," the change being that Buffy managed to avoid being "banished from this earth," presumably into another dimension, which sounds suspiciously like Twilight's, if Buffy had figured out a way to send the demons there instead of humans, along with herself, her friends, and all of the other Slayers.
If they are, indeed, the same battle, then existing canon was changed in Season 8 by not accepting Twilight's offer of a new universe or banishing all the demons, and by, eventually, restoring magic, which was proven to be necessary to keep order in Buffy's dimension. In the original version, with all the demons and all magic gone, and assuming that Willow would be one of the friends of the Slayer banished into another dimension, the chaos that Willow was able to avert in Season 9 would have been allowed to play out.
Assuming that that is the case, then the future that created Fray, though considered canon up to that point, might actually be interpreted as the anomaly that Buffy winning her battle set right once more. Correcting the time line wouldn't necessarily cause Fray and her reality to cease to exist, but it would probably cause changes, some great, some subtle, to occur. Of course, we'll never know for sure unless Joss decides to wright another Fray mini-series.
Yes, that is pure conjecture on my part, and I'm sure that there are people here just itching to tear it apart, but everything just fits together too well, in my opinion, to not be highly probable, if not true.
http://www.denofgeek.com/books-comics/26065/looking-back-at-joss-whedons-fray
In the paragraph directly below the 4th picture (Fray blasting Urkon)
It says, "During a history lesson which included the first slayer, Urkonn tells Fray that demons and magic were banished from 'this earthly dimension' by an unnamed slayer, whose fate remains a mystery. Although this didn’t really match up with the way in which Buffy saw out season seven (and then there was the comic books continuation), it was tantalising tease dropped into Fray, and one which cemented the book into the Buffy universe."
While that doesn't match up with the final battle in Season 7, the mention about "banishing magic from earth" does fit in with the final battle in Season 8, with the difference being that neither demons nor Slayer's army were banished in Season 8, hence my belief that the final battle in Season 8 was the final battle spoken of in "Fray," the change being that Buffy managed to avoid being "banished from this earth," presumably into another dimension, which sounds suspiciously like Twilight's, if Buffy had figured out a way to send the demons there instead of humans, along with herself, her friends, and all of the other Slayers.
If they are, indeed, the same battle, then existing canon was changed in Season 8 by not accepting Twilight's offer of a new universe or banishing all the demons, and by, eventually, restoring magic, which was proven to be necessary to keep order in Buffy's dimension. In the original version, with all the demons and all magic gone, and assuming that Willow would be one of the friends of the Slayer banished into another dimension, the chaos that Willow was able to avert in Season 9 would have been allowed to play out.
Assuming that that is the case, then the future that created Fray, though considered canon up to that point, might actually be interpreted as the anomaly that Buffy winning her battle set right once more. Correcting the time line wouldn't necessarily cause Fray and her reality to cease to exist, but it would probably cause changes, some great, some subtle, to occur. Of course, we'll never know for sure unless Joss decides to wright another Fray mini-series.
Yes, that is pure conjecture on my part, and I'm sure that there are people here just itching to tear it apart, but everything just fits together too well, in my opinion, to not be highly probable, if not true.
