KoshFan
Regular
It's never stated outright. But you can read between the lines when you find out who created the first slayer, and how they did it.
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Thread starter GKarsEye
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It's never stated outright. But you can read between the lines when you find out who created the first slayer, and how they did it.
vacantlook
Super Moderator
Yay! I was gonna post much the same thing. There's a reason it's only female. It's actually kind of a deep-seeded theme of the whole show, in a way. You won't find out for a long, long time though.
vacantlook
Super Moderator
GKarsEye
Regular
So guess what happened!
I watched episode 9, which is the first of a two-parter about how Spike is trying to cure Drusilla (so vampires get sick now... ok) and summons 3 bounty hunters of some sort (why couldn't he just do this earlier?). And there's this incredibly hot chick stalking her, so it's implied she's one of them, but she's a vampire slayer!
cliffhanger!
"Hah-hah," I declare, "I have all the episodes downloaded, I can now watch the conclusion!" Open the file for episode 10 and episode 9 starts....
huh?
Bad download!
Verily, I am punished for my arrogance.
Now I wait for another download to finish. Waiting waiting...
Meanwhile....
Kendra's Jamaican's accent...lol! It's like a comic's impression of Cleo the psychic TV lady.
Why doesn't Buffy just drop out of high school? I mean, she's sitting here complaining that she has no choice about what to do with her life, so then what would she need with a formal education?
I watched episode 9, which is the first of a two-parter about how Spike is trying to cure Drusilla (so vampires get sick now... ok) and summons 3 bounty hunters of some sort (why couldn't he just do this earlier?). And there's this incredibly hot chick stalking her, so it's implied she's one of them, but she's a vampire slayer!
cliffhanger!
"Hah-hah," I declare, "I have all the episodes downloaded, I can now watch the conclusion!" Open the file for episode 10 and episode 9 starts....
huh?
Bad download!
Verily, I am punished for my arrogance.
Now I wait for another download to finish. Waiting waiting...
Meanwhile....
Kendra's Jamaican's accent...lol! It's like a comic's impression of Cleo the psychic TV lady.
Why doesn't Buffy just drop out of high school? I mean, she's sitting here complaining that she has no choice about what to do with her life, so then what would she need with a formal education?
vacantlook
Super Moderator
Sorry to hear about the download problems, but I'm glad you enjoy the look of Kendra The Vampire Slayer. And yeah, the accent is a whole lot of silly. As for Drusilla, it's not exactly that she's sick and more that she was, according to a rather quick throwaway line in an earlier episode, beaten the shit out of by a mob in Prague immediately prior to Spike and her coming to Sunnydale, and it's taking a good long while for her to recover from that. This cure thing Spike wants to use is to just make Dru recover a lot faster.
Pobman
Regular
Too much stuff to comment on in this thread so far.
I've been rewatching Buffy and Angel as my wife had never watched it and I thought she'd enjoy it. When it came the Angel spin-off I found a list on wikipedia of the order of the episodes to make sure we watched them in the right order. Yes I am that anal.
I don't tink Buffy (the show) has aged well.
By the way, Angel starts of really shakily, but I recommend you perservere with it as I personally enjoyed it on the whole a little bit more than I enjoyed Buffy overall.
I've been rewatching Buffy and Angel as my wife had never watched it and I thought she'd enjoy it. When it came the Angel spin-off I found a list on wikipedia of the order of the episodes to make sure we watched them in the right order. Yes I am that anal.
I don't tink Buffy (the show) has aged well.
By the way, Angel starts of really shakily, but I recommend you perservere with it as I personally enjoyed it on the whole a little bit more than I enjoyed Buffy overall.
Chilli
High Treason Prevention Officer
I think it's kind of inevitable for a show centered around hip and trendy teenage life to become dated very quickly, I guess. Fortunately for myelf, I've become such an old fogey that's so completely out of touch with what is trendy and hip right now that most of this will pass me right by. Buffy's high school years precede mine by two years. If you factor in the time difference (There's a joke in Germany - What would you do if you found out that the world was to end tomorrow? Get in a car and drive to Austria, those guys are always a few years behind everyone else), it pretty much lines up with my highschool time, so the oddness of it doesn't srike me on the head too much when I watch Buffy now. I like to pretend that my high school time wasn't a long time ago.
(unless you're not even talking about the hipness and the pop culture, but of the production values/effects/etc.
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Pobman
Regular
I think it's kind of inevitable for a show centered around hip and trendy teenage life to become dated very quickly, I guess. Fortunately for myelf, I've become such an old fogey that's so completely out of touch with what is trendy and hip right now that most of this will pass me right by. Buffy's high school years precede mine by two years. If you factor in the time difference (There's a joke in Germany - What would you do if you found out that the world was to end tomorrow? Get in a car and drive to Austria, those guys are always a few years behind everyone else), it pretty much lines up with my highschool time, so the oddness of it doesn't srike me on the head too much when I watch Buffy now. I like to pretend that my high school time wasn't a long time ago.
(unless you're not even talking about the hipness and the pop culture, but of the production values/effects/etc.
Yeah, I guess what I meant is that it seemed so intrinsicily of its time that it seems a bit outdated now.
GKarsEye
Regular
One of the reasons I like watching the show is actually its "dated" nature- like I said, 90s nostalgia porn. The novelty of the internet, the disaffected sarcastic teenagers, the boomer-liberal privileged parenting middle class, the terrible terrible rock music... takes me back.
Ok I got to finish the two-parter (with Swedish subtitles and everything).
Frankly I'm surprised Kendra managed to survive it. I figured with a 2nd slayer, there is no way she's surviving. So presumably she's return, and hopefully wearing another mid-riff baring top.
Convenient plot point: she entraps Angel in a Batman villain style time-tripped cage of doom instead of just stabbing him like any other vampire, before knowing he's unique.
Xander + Cordelia illicit love affair - I dig it. This show does broad comedy well, and I giggled at the romantic music swelling up when they fight/kiss.
I also watched the John Ritter is a robot episode this morning. This is the episode I caught some of years ago and thought it was so freakin' stupid that it put me off the show for 10 years. Well, it's still stupid.
Ok I got to finish the two-parter (with Swedish subtitles and everything).
Frankly I'm surprised Kendra managed to survive it. I figured with a 2nd slayer, there is no way she's surviving. So presumably she's return, and hopefully wearing another mid-riff baring top.
Convenient plot point: she entraps Angel in a Batman villain style time-tripped cage of doom instead of just stabbing him like any other vampire, before knowing he's unique.
Xander + Cordelia illicit love affair - I dig it. This show does broad comedy well, and I giggled at the romantic music swelling up when they fight/kiss.
I also watched the John Ritter is a robot episode this morning. This is the episode I caught some of years ago and thought it was so freakin' stupid that it put me off the show for 10 years. Well, it's still stupid.
vacantlook
Super Moderator
I don't remember the specificities of her outfit when she does so, but yeah, you'll see Kendra again.
Knowing that this was coming, I made a rather loud, vocalized exclamation sound several posts back when we were talking about Xander's ability to get girls and you made a comment about how he would still be able to get plenty of girls even if he couldn't get "the cheerleaders and Cordelia."
So, if the John Ritter episode was your last, then your next is "Bad Eggs," which is kind of a yawner. But then after that one is another two-parter -- "Surprise" and "Innocence." I'd say that "Innocence" is the first A+ episode of the show.
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GKarsEye
Regular
Fair enough.
I'm hoping this is just something they're just playing for comedy and it doesn't turn into this grand love affair. It's funnier if it's just an expression of teen hormones and the fact that while Cordelia is horrid person, she's still fine as all get-out.
So I got a crappy ep then a two-parter... cool... I can knock out the next one while getting in a little calisthenic workout then sit back and I'll enjoy the two-parter tonight.
Then for the weekend it looks like rain and social obligations I don't want and can probably weasel out of, so I'll probably be done with the season by Monday.
GKarsEye
Regular
GKarsEye
Regular
d'oh
It's the infamous Stone Temple Pilots music video for the song Sour Girl, in which a bare-chested lead singer Scott Weiland, the rest of the band, and Sarah Michelle Gellar cavort in a field with a bunch of creatures that can best be described as a cross between the Easter bunny and a teletubby. For realz, yo. Oh, and the white tele-bunny looks evil, and Gellar's hair goes for dyed black goth to blonde and curly.
GKarsEye
Regular
I'm live blogging Buffy tonight. Now I'm watching cowboy vampires and Buffy attacking monster eggs with an iron. And ebaying. I'm ebaying, not Buffy, that would be silly..
Why does Buffy hunt at the cemetery? She's a vampire slayer, not a zombie slayer. In this version of vampires, biting a person doesn't turn them into one, it has to be a deliberate act. And we see Angel and Spike and other vampires sleep in normal rooms, not graves like Bella Lugosi.
But then her former friend with cancer turned into one and popped out of a grave, after Spike specifically didn't want to turn him. So what's up with that?
Ooh, Cordelia in a leather skirt...
Why does Buffy hunt at the cemetery? She's a vampire slayer, not a zombie slayer. In this version of vampires, biting a person doesn't turn them into one, it has to be a deliberate act. And we see Angel and Spike and other vampires sleep in normal rooms, not graves like Bella Lugosi.
But then her former friend with cancer turned into one and popped out of a grave, after Spike specifically didn't want to turn him. So what's up with that?
Ooh, Cordelia in a leather skirt...
vacantlook
Super Moderator
Her hunting in a cemetary is to try to get the vampire right as they crawl out of their graves. Like back in "Lie To Me" when Buffy and Giles stood along side Ford's grave waiting for him to wake up as a vampire, and as soon as he comes out of his grave, Buffy stakes him. Taking out a vamp as soon as they emerge from their grave gives Buffy the advantage.
Spike didn't want to turn Ford becasue Ford was annoying, but Spike did make a deal with Ford, and so Spike turned him as per his part of the deal. For a person to turn into a vampire, the vampire has to suck the person's blood to the point of death, then the person has to drink the vampire's blood, and then the person does proceed to die. After a period of time of being dead, the person finally regains consciousness as a vampire. The amount of time that passes ususally is enough for the person to be buried, though not always.
