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[AndrewCrossett]

And David Fury confirmed that Joss intends Buffy to be the Slayer that's behind winning the current apocalypse.

Why do they casually give away such major plot points like that?

Sometimes, I really wish TPTB would shut up and let the story come out in its own good time. Confirm stuff on the page, not in some interview somewhere.

Maybe they should save themselves the trouble of writing the story and just give it to us as a series of bullet points.

 

[Kean]

Well yeah 😉.

With the Scythe, it seems to me like Spike's the one who kept it safe after the apocalypse since Buffy & Angel either died in the battle or of old age (I'd like to believe the latter). If we believe the time slips & visions, Angel's turned back into a vampire, but then he legitimately gets to "Shanshu" after wards (we seem him middle-aged in the future).

And David Fury confirmed that Joss intends Buffy to be the Slayer that's behind winning the current apocalypse.

It's not really verses' intersecting, it's the same universe, just separate teams. Personally, I'd like to think that W&H are involved with Twilight, but I doubt it, because Joss has said in the past that involving Buffy too heavily in Angel's battle would take away from the fact that Angel & his team have been fighting them for all these years.

I feel that at it's root Buffy is part of that fight though. He was sent to help her ( I have to believe it was the Powers that sent Whistler to him in NY) and stop the apocolypse. It didn't quite work out that way but his path was to be a Champion with her and he did become that. Buffy plays a huge role in him becoming that hero. I think it is only right that they face the last huge apocolypse together. I think that is what they have been fighting for together and seperately.

 

[Enisy]

Why do they casually give away such major plot points like that?

Sometimes, I really wish TPTB would shut up and let the story come out in its own good time. Confirm stuff on the page, not in some interview somewhere.

Maybe they should save themselves the trouble of writing the story and just give it to us as a series of bullet points.

That was from a pre-Season 8 interview:

David Fury: As far as Buffy [being] sealed up inside, it's very possible that Joss had the idea -- well, I will say this. Very early in [Season 7], the finale was going to be Buffy having to force the Hellmouth open. I don't remember it being so much about being in cave spaces, it might have been, but the point of it was they were trying so hard to keep the Hellmouth closed that she realized that the only way to do this is to open the Hellmouth. It was one of those ways of thinking that we were going to figure out later but to defeat them you have to open the Hellmouth wide. Probably at some point when Joss was writing Fray he thought that, when that happens, Willow casts this spell which creates sort of a vacuum effect and that Buffy would be sealed inside, but I think ultimately he decided that wasn't the way to end the series -- for Buffy to be potentially dead.
Interviewer: He also never specified that the last slayer was Buffy --
David Fury: I talked to him about it when he was writing Fray and I think that he always had the sense that it was Buffy. But the fact that it's left vague in the comics makes it open for interpretation. People can decide whatever they want and Joss can certainly decide it's not Buffy, but at the time he wrote it he believed that it was Buffy. That she was the last slayer before Fray was called. I think it gave Buffy a greater stake in the mythology to know that she was the last one before Fray was called.
But, like I said, that's a story yet to be told.