Post by tkts on Mar 15, 2010 0:09:23 GMT -5
All of the Potentials shown in Season 7 are pretty young, with Kennedy being the oldest at 19. However, one would expect that many Potentials, due to their never being activated as Slayers, would live normal human lifespans. A Potential who was born around the same time as Nikki Wood, for example, would probably have been somewhere around 45 to 50 by Season 7 (based on her having died in the 1970s and the dialogue indicating that Robin is at least 30 in 2003).
So why don't we see any older Potentials? Could it be that, just as a Potential can't be activated until she reaches an appropriate age, an unactivated Potential ceases to be a Potential at a certain age?
And if so, does this apply only to unactivated Potentials, or also to Slayers? It's never been an issue before, because of the average Slayer's very abbreviated lifespan, but is it possible that all of the Slayers at the time of "Chosen" will lose their power at some point -- first Buffy and Faith, then Kennedy, then the others? Or if there is a time limit, does it apply only to unactivated Potentials?
(If a Slayer lost her power at some point, it actually would have been a lot less depressing for the Slayers who lived before the line of succession was abolished ... instead of "you fight, you fight, you fight, and eventually you die," it'd be more like "OK, if you can manage to survive until you're 25 or whatever, the Slayer line will pass to the next person...")
So why don't we see any older Potentials? Could it be that, just as a Potential can't be activated until she reaches an appropriate age, an unactivated Potential ceases to be a Potential at a certain age?
And if so, does this apply only to unactivated Potentials, or also to Slayers? It's never been an issue before, because of the average Slayer's very abbreviated lifespan, but is it possible that all of the Slayers at the time of "Chosen" will lose their power at some point -- first Buffy and Faith, then Kennedy, then the others? Or if there is a time limit, does it apply only to unactivated Potentials?
(If a Slayer lost her power at some point, it actually would have been a lot less depressing for the Slayers who lived before the line of succession was abolished ... instead of "you fight, you fight, you fight, and eventually you die," it'd be more like "OK, if you can manage to survive until you're 25 or whatever, the Slayer line will pass to the next person...")
