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Post by Rebecca on Sept 11, 2009 22:40:49 GMT -5
Maybe she was gathering intel. Twilight obviously had already located them prior to the cat scheme, so locating them wasn't Amy!Cat's objective.
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Post by AndrewCrossett on Sept 11, 2009 23:04:16 GMT -5
The cat wasn't in previous issues... but she wouldn't have been, since Amy still hadn't found them at the end of #27.
I wonder why Twilight was interested in gathering intel this time... when he thought he found them in #27, he just immediately took a bunch of soldiers and teleported in.
I also wonder why Oz didn't notice a strange cat wandering around his house. I would. (Unless he was working with Amy, which would suck.)
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Post by sagewoman on Sept 13, 2009 18:23:27 GMT -5
I've just finished a marathon re-read of all the Buffy comics. The cat did not appear in earlier issues (as Andrew pointed out). The cat's identity is assumed to be Amy - but we have np proof of that and since she was with Twilight, I figure that it isn't Amy.
Perhaps Oz and family thought the cat belonged to the slayers - it being unlikely that a werewolf family would have a cat. And, the slayers thought the cat was Oz's family.
I am surprised that Willow wouldn't have "felt" the cat since it was magical and should have had some form of aura.
I don't think Buffy will become a vampire. I think she is going along with the send your power to the Earth because she thinks it is the only way to save Willow from going dark.
I'm not going to read too much into the cover since they are meant to be teasers and not always giving us an accurate read on things. I interpreted the Buffy with the Stake picture as Buffy using her other hand to indicate "come here" to who ever she is going to stake. Palm up, fingers moving in unison back and forth.
Buffy seeing Xander and Dawn kissing was quite a shock for her..as I reread the issue, i thought that she was (considering) turning to Xander in a more romantic way - but too late - Dawnie got him.
Maybe Buffy has to sacrifice Willow. I don't know what the big thing that will make us angry might be.
I have a question though. All the slayers we have now were born before the Slayer power was shared. Are there going to be any new slayers in the next generation? Because, if the answer is no, then the slayer line dies out after this current generation dies off. Fray may have been chosen because of the lurks gaining power - or it may be skipping generations later on and will be one in every generation again,, but no watchers.
What would really make me angry - is to see Xander die.
Ok, that's my spiel for now.
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cutiepatootie
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Post by cutiepatootie on Sept 14, 2009 11:30:51 GMT -5
I have a question though. All the slayers we have now were born before the Slayer power was shared. Are there going to be any new slayers in the next generation? Because, if the answer is no, then the slayer line dies out after this current generation dies off. Fray may have been chosen because of the lurks gaining power - or it may be skipping generations later on and will be one in every generation again,, but no watchers. As seen in "Harmonic Divergence", when Soledad was called, Slayers are still being called just as potentials are still being born. A popular theory is that potentials are now called when they need to be or when they come of a certain age. I'm sure a Q&A somewhere validates what I wrote haha.
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Post by AndrewCrossett on Sept 14, 2009 20:09:39 GMT -5
As seen in "Harmonic Divergence", when Soledad was called, Slayers are still being called just as potentials are still being born. A popular theory is that potentials are now called when they need to be or when they come of a certain age. I'm sure a Q&A somewhere validates what I wrote haha. I think the power unlocks when they reach a certain age, and have need of it. Soledad was called just at the moment she needed her power to survive a fight against her former gang mates. It was her sixteenth birthday, but I think that had more to do with the fact that she chose that date to confront them, not that Slayers are always called right when they turn 16.
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Post by CowboyGuy on Sept 14, 2009 20:15:51 GMT -5
The power comes when the need is great, eh? That's a sweet theory and maybe that will happen in Issue 30...their getting demolished by Twilight, and then powers return at the last second and Buffy saves them.
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Post by AndrewCrossett on Sept 14, 2009 20:27:01 GMT -5
The power comes when the need is great, eh? That's a sweet theory and maybe that will happen in Issue 30...their getting demolished by Twilight, and then powers return at the last second and Buffy saves them. I don't know if it will come back when the need is great or not. The three-act story structure says probably not. We're reaching the midpoint of Act II when the heroes are beaten to a pulp and everything seems hopeless. It's the next arc when secrets are revealed, we hit the reversal, then launch into Act III (Joss's arc), and the heroes pull it out. It looks like Buffy is going to make some kind of sacrifice in #30 that might avert total destruction, but leaves her in a very bad situation. Georges says it's a "WTF moment."
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Post by faithswatcher on Sept 14, 2009 20:29:22 GMT -5
at the last second and Buffy saves them. Thats optimistic in my eyes. I do not think this arc is going to end 'Happily ever after'. We need a reason to hate Twilight. We need a reason to say "Get that Goddamn son of a..." I don't think Buffy is going to save the day, not this arc anyway. I expect casualties.
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Post by AndrewCrossett on Sept 14, 2009 20:43:32 GMT -5
Lighting candles in church for the safety of my beloved redshirts...
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Post by hitnrun017 on Sept 14, 2009 22:36:36 GMT -5
That's so depressing. I'd rather every character die than Leah.
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Post by wenxina on Sept 14, 2009 22:55:24 GMT -5
E's got a thing for pretty redheads. Even though her hair is bigger than the entire him.
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Post by AndrewCrossett on Sept 14, 2009 23:23:23 GMT -5
E's got a thing for pretty redheads. Even though her hair is bigger than the entire him. I wouldn't mind a woman with hair that can keep us both warm on cold Scottish nights...
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Post by Rebecca on Sept 17, 2009 1:06:29 GMT -5
A 'WTF moment,' eh?
*Scottish Accent* Sounds essiting!!
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trunkstheslayer
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Post by trunkstheslayer on Sept 17, 2009 20:21:22 GMT -5
Ok, so looking at Jeanty's cover and rereading Anywhere But Here, I caught something peculiar. This cover has a Tibetan (assumed) diety of some form in it. The demon Willow and Buffy visit has four faces, all of which seem to have a Tibetan style to them. So what's the connection, if any?
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Post by wenxina on Sept 17, 2009 20:34:01 GMT -5
Don't think they were meant to look "Tibetan". The four faces seemed to represent four different human emotions.
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Post by pulse on Sept 23, 2009 4:46:51 GMT -5
Hey,
I was thinking about something and wanted to know if anyone has talked about willow's loss of magic and whether it is permanent. Remember in the future she can only muster little magic, is it possible she'll never recover from her time in tibet? Maybe perhaps something so horrible happens after tibet that evil willow takes over and creates some permeating lifeforce to further her instinctual survival mechanism, perhaps waiting for her the oppurtunity to get her magic to come back.
Though, note I actually haven't reread those issues in quite a while so I could totally be crazy
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misterkent
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Post by misterkent on Sept 23, 2009 22:38:22 GMT -5
That's an interesting take - I didn't even connect that the small amount of muster in the future might be tied to her losing her powers in Tibet. Good theory!
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Post by AndrewCrossett on Sept 24, 2009 7:33:08 GMT -5
I would have thought Dark Willow's lack of power was due to Buffy's having banished magic from the world, but I'm not 100% certain the Slayers' and Wiccans' current loss of power isn't permanent. It's not supposed to be, but I'm not sure the source of that information is trustworthy.
By the way... what happened to all those monks who used to be there? The ones Bay was a part of, and who trained Oz to control his wolfiness? Shouldn't they be playing some part in all this drama?
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Post by CowboyGuy on Sept 24, 2009 7:40:24 GMT -5
I would have thought Dark Willow's lack of power was due to Buffy's having banished magic from the world, but I'm not 100% certain the Slayers' and Wiccans' current loss of power isn't permanent. It's not supposed to be, but I'm not sure the source of that information is trustworthy. By the way... what happened to all those monks who used to be there? The ones Bay was a part of, and who trained Oz to control his wolfiness? Shouldn't they be playing some part in all this drama? Could it be that Willow is simply no longer connected to "a great power" since she allowed it to flow back into the earth? Unlike Slayers who naturally are a vessel for the strength and skill (the power finds them), Willow is a normal human being who wasn't born with a destiny to have any sort of powers. She went out and got it. Maybe that is what will happen?
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Post by wenxina on Sept 24, 2009 8:15:58 GMT -5
By the way... what happened to all those monks who used to be there? The ones Bay was a part of, and who trained Oz to control his wolfiness? Shouldn't they be playing some part in all this drama? Most, if not all were killed by Monroe and his gang. In the flashback shown in #27.
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