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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Edena_of_Neith" data-source="post: 348651" data-attributes="member: 2020">My pardons.  I did not realize most fans of Buffy eschewed the original film, and that it is not considered Canon.  If Buffy had supernatural strength, agility, endurance, and capacity for punishment (physical harm to her) from the beginning, that does make a difference.  Thanks for jogging my memory - I do remember Buffy catching that knife, in the film.  Not your typical person who can do that!    I have heard that trained martial artists can catch a knife hurled at high speed at them (and I suspect more than a few martial artists are seriously injured trying that feat.)  Obviously, Buffy was special from the start, be it in the film or episode one of Season one.  I am becoming more and more curious - you folks are sucking me into the Buffy universe, as it were.  I'll check out the websites, and see what information I can dig up here.  It's still great, though, when a girl - powers or no powers - walks INTO the abandoned warehouse to fight the monsters therein.  After 70 years of girls screaming and running, being saved by men, being stalked, being killed ... the change is nice.  As for Buffy's allies, this is the third case of Buffy having a good head on those shoulders of hers.  Of course, allies are a liability as well as an asset, if they cannot stand at your side in toe to toe combat (and many of Buffy's allies cannot do so), but Buffy seems to have a knack for keeping her allies protected, while gaining crucial information and support from them.  Not to say her allies are not attacked or hurt, but Buffy does seem to have a way of minimalizing this.  Chalk another point of intelligence up for Buffy on that matter.  Am I wrong, or is Spike a vampire?  And if he is a vampire, isn't he ... neutral???  For I do not see Buffy killing him, as she kills the other vampires.  And I don't see Spike trying to kill Buffy.  Where exactly does Spike stand in all this?  Am I right, that the vampires and their allies have taken over the local government, including the police?</blockquote>

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