So I just got to "No Future For You" in my Whedon run-through and I ran across something that caught my attention. In a flashback Mayor Wilkins says "My dear Edna May..." This caught my attention because Edna is a character in the Tales of the Vampires book-end segments. The only other clue we have is in a story from Tales of the Slayers, "The Glittering World," when Wilkins first founded Sunnydale (or maybe Happydale, or Sunny Acres? 😛 )
Then, after looking through my TotV TPB I found something even more interesting (to me). At the end, as we all know, the "baker's boy's" last name is 'Giles'. We are led to assume that this boy is either our very own Rupert Giles or an ancestor. Then, in the last sentence of TotV Edna says, "maybe one day I'll be telling our grandchildren about this." So now we are led to believe the baker's boy is either Rupert Giles or his grandfather. So the two questions that come out of this are:
1. When did the TotV book-end segments take place? Was that Giles or his grandfather?
2. Can Edna Fairweather from TotV possibly by Edna May Fairweather, whom The Mayor speaks of? No matter when the story took place it is possible for Wilkins to have had a relationship with her, because of his immortality.
Then, after looking through my TotV TPB I found something even more interesting (to me). At the end, as we all know, the "baker's boy's" last name is 'Giles'. We are led to assume that this boy is either our very own Rupert Giles or an ancestor. Then, in the last sentence of TotV Edna says, "maybe one day I'll be telling our grandchildren about this." So now we are led to believe the baker's boy is either Rupert Giles or his grandfather. So the two questions that come out of this are:
1. When did the TotV book-end segments take place? Was that Giles or his grandfather?
2. Can Edna Fairweather from TotV possibly by Edna May Fairweather, whom The Mayor speaks of? No matter when the story took place it is possible for Wilkins to have had a relationship with her, because of his immortality.