[Buffy season 6 spoiler request] Spike's chip & Buffy's return

[Heretic Apostate]

Just found out, from the blurbs at buffyguide.com, that Spike was suddenly able to attack Buffy, even if he had the chip.

Why was he able to?

 

[takyris]

Not because of the chip. Because of Buffy. It was her coming back from the dead that caused her to register as something other than entirely human, and as such, he was able to attack her.

 

[Steve Jung]

IIRC, it was a side effect of her resurrection. Tara said something to the effect of Buffy coming back slightly different from what she was before. So Spike's chip didn't recognize her as human. Can't remember what episode this scene was in, though.

 

[Atridis]

Did I miss something, or was that whole plot-line dropped like a hot potato? At the time, I assumed that this was the beginning of something big, but it never went anywhere. Did it?

 

[Sirius_Black]

Did I miss something, or was that whole plot-line dropped like a hot potato? At the time, I assumed that this was the beginning of something big, but it never went anywhere. Did it?

I believe you just summarized season six in a nutshell.

 

[takyris]

Hey now. Some of us thought that season six was fantastic. Didn't love every single episode, but then, I didn't love every single episode of any season of any show.

I don't know what plotline you think "didn't go anywhere". If it's Buffy being rezzed, it DID go somewhere... she spent most of the season dealing with it, and then eventually she got over it and started living. If it's the "Buffy rezzed == Different", then that was dealt with in Season Seven --

Spoiler

The First chooses that time to make its move because Buffy being brought back introduced an element of weakness into the Slayer lineage, according to that giant bag of floating eyes.

If it's Buffy & Spike, that got dealt with in a large number of ways. If you don't like the way it was dealt with, of course, that's a different story -- but it was dealt with, to be sure.

 

[Atridis]

If it's the "Buffy rezzed == Different", then that was dealt with in Season Seven --

Spoiler

The First chooses that time to make its move because Buffy being brought back introduced an element of weakness into the Slayer lineage, according to that giant bag of floating eyes.

I guessed I missed that part. I was disappointed that a third Slayer was never introduced, although the 7th season, and the series finale, made it a moot point.

 

[Vocenoctum]

I don't know what plotline you think "didn't go anywhere". If it's Buffy being rezzed, it DID go somewhere... she spent most of the season dealing with it, and then eventually she got over it and started living. If it's the "Buffy rezzed == Different", then that was dealt with in Season Seven --

Spoiler

The First chooses that time to make its move because Buffy being brought back introduced an element of weakness into the Slayer lineage, according to that giant bag of floating eyes.

They never explained why or how that mattered. Season 6 was so-so for Plot Holes, but Season 7 was just one big Plot Hole, with pacing that made no sense.
IMO ofc

 

[Welverin]

I guessed I missed that part. I was disappointed that a third Slayer was never introduced, although the 7th season, and the series finale, made it a moot point.

That should be 'a fourth slayer' (Faith was the third) and the reason there wasn't another is because the slayer line past through Faith and another wouldn't be called until she died (it didn't matter f Buffy died or not).

 

[s/LaSH]

That should be 'a fourth slayer' (Faith was the third) and the reason there wasn't another is because the slayer line past through Faith and another wouldn't be called until she died (it didn't matter f Buffy died or not).

Except that nobody on the show realised that. They're all rather dense in that regard.

I do, however, recall making the suggestion that the Watchers should get all the potentials in one hospital and systematically use coronary drugs or asphyxiation techniques and subsequent resuccitation to create an army of Slayers. (It does seem like something they'd do, right?)

Moot, though. At least for a while... (anyone else read Joss Whedon's Fray? 26th century Slayer. The only one, it seems.)