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           [Or against the Master, or the Mayor, or Adam?]   
      
   One explanation contends it was nothing more than a fast and dirty way for   
   Whedon to explain away his deus ex machina of the scythe. Another reckons   
   Willow was the next in line of the Guardians, as she momentarily resembled   
   one (white hair and all) when she adopted the power of the scythe.   
      
   Either way, there are plenty of questions surrounding these characters that   
   are hopefully answered by the reboot.   
      
      
   7. Mantis eggs, sunny side up   
      
   In the fourth episode of Buffy season one, 'Teacher's Pet', the evil mantis   
   lady kicked off the trend for demons getting the hots for Xander by taking   
   on the form of a beautiful substitute teacher and quite literally   
   date-raping him in order to lay her eggs and continue the lineage of giant,   
   shape-shifting beasts.   
      
   Luckily, Buffy had a slayer-sized can of insect repellent to kill off the   
   queen mantis, but that doesn't explain what happened to her babies. Close to   
   the end of the episode, we saw the eggs begin to hatch, and then… nothing.   
      
           [And wasn't there an egg  left in a closet at the end of S2 episode   
   'Bad Eggs'? What happened when it hatched?]   
      
   It could very well be that Buffy had some spray left in the can, but the   
   writing team could have had the courtesy to put our active minds at rest by   
   showing us.   
      
      
   8. The sequence of the slayers   
      
   In each generation, there can only be one Chosen One, yada, yada, yada.   
   Fine, cool. But the slayer lineage took a number of confusing turns   
   throughout the episodes of Buffy, in part because everyone kept dying all   
   the time.   
      
   When Buffy first bites the dust, Kendra's power was activated. But Buffy   
   came back to life and then there were two. Kendra died, so Faith was called   
   in – despite the fact that Buffy was still kicking butt. Eh?   
      
           [I have no problem with this. Obviously, when Buffy died, she was   
   out of the loop for creating new Slayers.]   
      
   Of course, Willow went and messed up the sequence in the season finale by   
   activating all the slayers at once – a mess the writing team are going to   
   have to deal with when it comes to mapping out the new episodes. Better get   
   the mop out.   
      
      
      
   David   
      
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