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From: anim8rfsk@cox.net
In article ,
Dimensional Traveler wrote:
> 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 ...
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Â Â Â Buffy reboot will follow new slayer, showrunner confirms
> >>>>>>> Â Â Â --------------------------------------------------------
> >>>>>>> Â Â Â It was officially announced last week that the hit WB
series
> >>>>>>> Â Â Â Buffy the Vampire Slayer is getting the reboot
treatment at
> >>>>>>> Â Â Â Fox with a black actress leading the series! Fan
reaction as
> >>>>>>> Â Â Â mixed at first as it was initially seen as though Sarah
> >>>>>>> Â Â Â Michelle Gellar's portrayal would be replaced. However,
new
> >>>>>>> Â Â Â showrunner Monica Owusu-Breen (Alias) has just confirmed
> >>>>>>> Â Â Â that the new series will not be replacing Gellar in the
> >>>>>>> Â Â Â 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.
It has to be violent? Poisoning works doesn't it?
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