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   From: dtravel@sonic.net   
      
   On 7/27/2018 6:55 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:   
   > In article ,   
   >   Ubiquitous  wrote:   
   >   
   >> 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.   
   >   
   > Well, no.  First, in Highlander, you have to get killed and come back to   
   > be immortal, so you kind of notice something.  :)   
   >   
   In Highlander you have to die a violent death for the immortality to   
   kick in.  So if you die of old age in your sleep, you are dead dead.   
      
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