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   From: weberm@polaris.net   
      
   anim8rfsk@cox.net wrote:   
   > Dimensional Traveler  wrote:   
   >> On 7/26/2018 7:10 PM, David Johnston wrote:   
   >> > On 2018-07-26 7:56 PM, Ubiquitous wrote:   
   >> >> YourName@YourISP.com wrote:   
      
   >> >>> The media these days stupidly uses the term "reboot" to mean any old   
   >> >>> show that is being brought back into production, whether that's an   
   >> >>> actual 'reboot', or a 're-imagination', or even just a 'resurrection'   
   >> >>> with a properly done sequel / follow-on series.   
   >> >>>   
   >> >>> From ComingSoon.net ...   
   >> >>>   
   >> >>>     Buffy reboot will follow new slayer, showrunner confirms   
   >> >>>     --------------------------------------------------------   
   >> >>>     It was officially announced last week that the hit WB series   
   >> >>>     Buffy the Vampire Slayer is getting the reboot treatment at   
   >> >>>     Fox with a black actress leading the series! Fan reaction as   
   >> >>>     mixed at first as it was initially seen as though Sarah   
   >> >>>     Michelle Gellar's portrayal would be replaced. However, new   
   >> >>>     showrunner Monica Owusu-Breen (Alias) has just confirmed   
   >> >>>     that the new series will not be replacing Gellar in the   
   >> >>>     titular role, but rather will focus on a new slayer.   
   >> >>   
   >> >> I thought there could only be one "slayer" at a time?   
   >> >   
   >> > Not by the end of the series.  They'd rewritten the slayer spell so   
   >> > that all the potential slayers became actual.  I thought that not   
   >> > considering the reason why the spell was so limited in the first place   
   >> > was liable to make this decision a terrible mistake.   
   >>   
   >> At what point in fetal development does Slayer potential kick in?   
   >   
   >It's always there.  They're "potentials" until activated.  There are   
   >hundreds, maybe thousands, of potentials waiting to be called, almost   
   >all of which won't even ever know about it.  The mechanism that chooses   
   >the next successor is unknown, although it does have set rules - when   
   >Buffy died (she got better) her death called Kendra, and Kendra's death   
   >called Faith the Lovely.  But when Buffy died *again* she didn't call a   
   >new slayer, as the line of succession (apparently) passed to Faith (this   
   >was never tested).  All this changed in the last horrid season as the   
   >mythos was destroyed by the incompetence and uncaring of Marti Noxon.   
   >All Slayers were activated (although the show was so stupid at that   
   >point that most of them seemed to be in their 20s); the comics follow   
   >the adventures of this army, which really shouldn't have a lot of   
   >trouble keeping the demons at bay.   
      
   I thought it was like Highlander where suddenly one day you're immortal.   
      
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