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[yendi]

A few things:

First, although Elayna dawdled this morning, she did manage to read all the way through chapter 17 of her book (one shy of finishing it)! Woohoo!

Second, I'll be at Educause most of this day, so I'll be offline until early evening, most likely. Try to survive without me, hard as it may be.

Third, when we got home yesterday, there were beautful and nifty cards waiting for shadesong and me, courtesy of the wonderful karlita. Yay, and thanks! And the cards had stickers, which made Elayna happy, too. :-)

Fourth, we had Buffy night again last night. All three shows were good, although I'll admit Buffy was only really good because it had some nifty Anya moments. Gilmore was the best of the three shows, by far. Although I'm not sure we can continue to do the massively late Tuesdays. In fact, I'm pretty sure we can't -- I just can't take staying up until 1 on a worknight. I think next week will just be Buffy/Smallville, just to give everyone a head's up.

And I guess I should say who the everyone is -- it was mightwombat, gladstone, and glenn5 last night.

And fifth, Elayna finally got to see stars on the way to the schoolbus, as the early hour and the later dawn have combined for total darkness (and I guess it was a decent day, cloud and pollution-wise). I showed her Orion, and we had fun attempting to find other constellations (no luck, as it was getting too bright). She was a happy girl, though. :-)

Umm. I think that's it. I've gotta go -- I know I owe a bunch of you comments, and I'll try to write some of them tonight.

Comments

[branwynelf.livejournal.com]

I guess I'm a weirdo. I actually enjoyed last night's Buffy, for all it was about an embellished worm. Although yet again Buffy's incredible lightness of reasoning powers shone through and Josh had me in tears at the end. I'm SO tired of going to bed in tears on Tuesday nights *muttergrumble*

Spike had some great lines last night too ... in the church near the end "Where the hell have you been all evening?" being my favourite mostly because it was almost word for word what I said in response to Buffy. Oh, and Xander's "She's not going to call me is she?" was amusing too.

[podling]

Mmmmn. I'm going to watch the Buffy tonight (courtesy jennywrenn but Gilmore Girls was very nice last night. I loved the scene with Christopher. astrophysicat and I discussed it afterward, it was that good...

[sage-and-sea.livejournal.com]

"Where the hell have you been all night?" and the look between Xander and Spike when Nancy asked who hadn't slept together had me laughing fit to scare the cats.

[branwynelf.livejournal.com]

ooo ooo! yah that look was AMAZING! I was laughing SO hard!
*laughing again thinking about it*

[rollick.livejournal.com]

I'm way behind on my responses too. As ever.

So last week, you theorized that the episode-opening murder had to do with killing Slayers-in-training. This week, watching BtVS do "Run Lola Run," and watching how well Lola fought before they took her down, it occurred to me – what if they're actually killing Slayers? What with Buffy's occasional deaths, there's three of them out there, right? What if they're trying to channel Slayerhood into a certain individual, and they're doing so by killing everyone who becomes a Slayer as soon as she comes into her power, before she's really learned how to use it? And then the torch passes again… and someone new has to die. Eventually, the person they want to become the next Slayer is the nearest suitable candidate.

Plot-wise, it occurred to me that this would be a great way to have Dawn become the Slayer at some point mid-season without actually having to have Buffy die first. That way, if Gellar leaves the show, there's already a new Slayer in place, but they can keep her character alive for cameos (and to cut down the cheese factor of the torch passing to the nearest featured character if Buffy did die). Once Dawn is also the Slayer, of course, the cultists come after her, and suddenly the world-hopping woman-stabbing plot is in Sunnydale instead of Europe somewhere.

How are they accomplishing it? Maybe the Watchers are part of it, who knows. I'm betting it's just some Big Bad power that lets them find the newest Slayer quick, personally. Isn't Faith still around? Maybe she's helping them, who knows. Based on this week's episode, it seems like the murder victims have an actual connection of some sort to Buffy, which might support the theory that they're Slayers. So maybe they have a connection to Faith too. Although there could be other reasons for that too.

[yendi]

I think that Joss has said that after Buffy's death, the line passed to Faith, so the other deaths didn't create other slayers. Then again, if it hasn't happened on the show, it's not canon, even if Joss says it. So who knows?

But yeah, there are definitely plenty of signs pointing to Dawn becoming more of a full-time slayer.