Re: the arguments. I've given them a lot of thought.
1)...a series of girls feeling the power and then some, but not all, choosing to accept and act on it. Don't mean to be argumentative, but which ones did you see choosing not to act on it? I just saw all the potentials being imbued with slayer strength and power. Also, it's been said several times in the series, that vampires can "sense" the Slayer, so even those choosing not to accept or act on their power would still be targets for vampires out to bag themselves a slayer. 2) Very true, but that removes the onus from Buffy, and puts it on many young girls that would not have otherwise been called via the "one girl in all the world" method. 3) Do potential slayers have the dreams? I don't remember that ever being said. I thought the dreams only came when one was called. I don't believe Buffy (as an unidentified potential) ever had the dreams. It was only after she was activated as a slayer that the dreams appeared. And in Damage, it was shown that Dana never had Slayer dreams until she was activated by Willow's spell. At that point in time, she got the Slayer dreams, and they mixed up in her broken mind with the memories of abuse she had suffered as a child. She filtered the dreams of other slayers through her mental illness, until she thought those things had been done to her, making her extra-crazy, but now with slayer-strength.
As I've mentioned before, excellent thought-provoking essay. I enjoyed reading it; it's well thought out, and we just disagree on the effects of the activation spell, which doesn't seem to me any different than the activation of Buffy, except that she did it to a lot of girls, who otherwise could have lived normal lives . . . the one thing she claimed to always want.
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Date: 2005-07-21 03:39 am (UTC)1)...a series of girls feeling the power and then some, but not all, choosing to accept and act on it.
Don't mean to be argumentative, but which ones did you see choosing not to act on it? I just saw all the potentials being imbued with slayer strength and power.
Also, it's been said several times in the series, that vampires can "sense" the Slayer, so even those choosing not to accept or act on their power would still be targets for vampires out to bag themselves a slayer.
2) Very true, but that removes the onus from Buffy, and puts it on many young girls that would not have otherwise been called via the "one girl in all the world" method.
3) Do potential slayers have the dreams? I don't remember that ever being said. I thought the dreams only came when one was called. I don't believe Buffy (as an unidentified potential) ever had the dreams. It was only after she was activated as a slayer that the dreams appeared. And in Damage, it was shown that Dana never had Slayer dreams until she was activated by Willow's spell. At that point in time, she got the Slayer dreams, and they mixed up in her broken mind with the memories of abuse she had suffered as a child. She filtered the dreams of other slayers through her mental illness, until she thought those things had been done to her, making her extra-crazy, but now with slayer-strength.
As I've mentioned before, excellent thought-provoking essay. I enjoyed reading it; it's well thought out, and we just disagree on the effects of the activation spell, which doesn't seem to me any different than the activation of Buffy, except that she did it to a lot of girls, who otherwise could have lived normal lives . . . the one thing she claimed to always want.