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From: dtravel@sonic.net
On 7/27/2018 10:49 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
> 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 ...
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>    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.
>
> It has to be violent? Poisoning works doesn't it?
>
I can't remember if they addressed death by poison. I don't think they
did but then poison wasn't really a method preferred by Immortals in
that universe.
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