(SPOILER CAUTION) A lot of questions about Buffy the Vampire Slayer

[Edena_of_Neith]

I guess my first question is: Is anyone out there, in ENWorld, who is familiar with Buffy and can answer questions about the series?

 

[CrusaderX]

Yes.

 

[Mog Elffoe]

Yeah, there are a LOT of Joss Whedon fans on these boards, myself included.

Ask away.

 

[Krug]

Ask away.

 

[takyris]

To answer your questions:


1) Because she

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died in the first season finale, causing the next Slayer to get called even though she came back (artificial respiration from Xander). Then, when the second Slayer died, she was replaced with Faith. Now, the line ends with Faith, not Buffy. If Buffy dies, no new slayer gets called, because she's already been replaced, sorta, by Faith. But if Faith dies, a new slayer will get called -- except that events in the series finale make that a moot point.

2) He got it put into his

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head in the fourth season. In the fifth season, he joined the team upon discovering that he could attack nonhumans without feeling pain. In the sixth season, he gets involved with her (although he's had a crush on her since the fifth season), and in the seventh season, he gets the chip removed because it's malfunctioning.

3) Joss has said that he'd always

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left room for one of the main cast to turn out to be gay. There are events that could possibly be seen as foreshadowing for both Xander and Willow in the earlier seasons.

4) Having her appear in the credits in the episode in which

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she died was both a way to credit her for two-plus years of hard work and a way to throw off the fans, who knew that some major character was going to die. A lot of people had thought it was going to be Anya, although others guessed Tara anyway, since it was the most logical way to have Willow go bad.

5) It only happens when she uses

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black magic. Think of it as a Dark Side of the Force thing.

6) Actually, he sired

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Drusilla, who later sired Spike. That's part of the reason they don't get along so well.

7) Originally, she was supposed to

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come back -- it was Joss' plan to have Willow eventually succeed in bringing her back, through a big death/romance plotline. But Amber Benson's schedule made it impossible for Tara to come back, so Joss had to go with Plan B.

8) He was brought in to give the bad guys a

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humanlike villain -- the First couldn't actually fight, and the ubervamps couldn't really emote very much, so it was thought that a charismatic, fast-talking bad guy was necessary.

Anything else?

Prophetically yours, and now edited for spoiler-free-ness,

 

[Mog Elffoe]

Yeah, what HE said.

 

[Nightfall]

Nice job Tak.

 

[Krug]

Edena you might want to add SPOILERS to the subject title.

 

[stevelabny]

but little did you know that the next question was going to be

"cuz i just started watching the show and wanted a bit of background information about the watchers, do i need to see the movie?"

and now youve gone and spoiled the whole thing. genius.



for your sake, i hope the oiginal poster has already seen the series.

 

[takyris]

Steve-o, examine the logic here. She's asking questions. She wants answers. Now, if she were scared of spoilers, do you really think she'd be asking questions on the board? And if she really was coming into the show fresh, do you think that what I wrote is going to give away huge vital information? It was meant to actually be a bit unclear as to what the questions were. The only way she could spoil the information would be for her to read all of that carefully and logically deduce major plot points. Otherwise, she could simply go, "Hmm, obscure spoiler stuff" and skip down.

Nevertheless, in order to stop the forces of hell from being unleashed upon the world, I have curbed the joke with spoiler tags.

Oh, and here's one to spoil it some more:

9) Yes.