How tall is Nicholas Brendon? Erm... I figure he's around 5'11", pushing six foot when he works at standing up straight.
When was the first moment you knew you really liked Cordelia as a character? I've always liked her, even thinking back to the very first eps I saw (Nightmares and Dark Ages) seven or eight years ago, but I can't tell you the exact moment. I can, however, point out the moment I knew I loved her: Rm W/A Vu, or, more specifically, the Rant of the Reigning Bitch Queen. I sat forward, grinning like a loon, this [] close to jumping out of my seat and shouting "Hell yeah!"
Did Flutie getting eaten shock you? No, but it was very sad.
Does Giles seem really nervous when he first meets Angel? Doesn't he seem like he's acting how I get around someone I think is really really cool or really really hot? Not that you would know how I get but can't you imagine it? Yeah, I know what you mean, but I generally write it off as, well, nerves, because hey--vampire. Also a bit of an academic fascination, because... 250 years old, with a soul, which would be weird and interesting even to someone with just layman's knowledge of history & vampires, but to a Watcher? Damn.
Are Potentials of a certain age? When Willow makes them all Slayers, does she activate little girls who would be, and old women who would've been? Or just gals of a certain age? I've always figured that Slayers are chosen between early pubescence and whenever their wisdom teeth are fully grown in, which seems to describe the general age spectrum we saw in the Chosen montage. However, it is canon that Potentials can be identified at a very young age, so I don't know if there was a broader range Chosen with Willow's spell or not. I think not. But if so, just think of how much trouble Herakles caused as a baby. Yeek.
What happens when all those activated Slayers die? Is it back to one Slayer dies and another one is called? This is actually one of the things I'm rather fond of pondering. Some writers tend to go for the idea that new slayers keep getting Chosen long after the spell is cast, which can work narrative-wise, but I don't quite buy it, something-else-wise (what? I'm tired, and I'm going to bed as soon as I finish this). I assume that things would go back to status quo after a few decades, unless some other weird thing happens. ::ponders::
Is any of this covered in Fray? Not really. The deal with Fray is, sometime in the 21st century, a Slayer, with a few allies, goes head-to-head with a truly massive army of demons (we're talking dragons and Ascended in the mix), and when the dust settles, all the demons and magic power on Earth are gone. Over 200 years later, Melaka Fray is the first to be Chosen since. Although AtS wouldn't have gone this way if it had gotten a 6th season, I think this is as close to a canon resolution for NFA as we're going to get, as well.
Do you think W&H's/Vail's spell to give Connor a life gets broken when Vail dies/Angel reneges on his deal to "work for" W&H? No. My view of the situation is that what Vail did wasn't just a spell--he rewrote reality, like you might rewrite a story. Vail didn't just make false memories of/for Connor with his new family, he made it so he had always been a part of that family. The memories that Wesley released were just backup files of a previous draft.
Do you think Spike's duster looks like it fits him? No, the sleeves are too long, but not by much. If he'd stolen it from a store, he might have had to face the great too-big-or-too-small conundrum, and picked that size. The strange thing is it doesn't seem much bigger on Nikki, and she was definitely smaller than Spike (long limbed though). I wonder where she got it?
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Erm... I figure he's around 5'11", pushing six foot when he works at standing up straight.
When was the first moment you knew you really liked Cordelia as a character?
I've always liked her, even thinking back to the very first eps I saw (Nightmares and Dark Ages) seven or eight years ago, but I can't tell you the exact moment. I can, however, point out the moment I knew I loved her: Rm W/A Vu, or, more specifically, the Rant of the Reigning Bitch Queen. I sat forward, grinning like a loon, this [] close to jumping out of my seat and shouting "Hell yeah!"
Did Flutie getting eaten shock you?
No, but it was very sad.
Does Giles seem really nervous when he first meets Angel? Doesn't he seem like he's acting how I get around someone I think is really really cool or really really hot? Not that you would know how I get but can't you imagine it?
Yeah, I know what you mean, but I generally write it off as, well, nerves, because hey--vampire. Also a bit of an academic fascination, because... 250 years old, with a soul, which would be weird and interesting even to someone with just layman's knowledge of history & vampires, but to a Watcher? Damn.
I've always figured that Slayers are chosen between early pubescence and whenever their wisdom teeth are fully grown in, which seems to describe the general age spectrum we saw in the Chosen montage. However, it is canon that Potentials can be identified at a very young age, so I don't know if there was a broader range Chosen with Willow's spell or not. I think not. But if so, just think of how much trouble Herakles caused as a baby. Yeek.
What happens when all those activated Slayers die? Is it back to one Slayer dies and another one is called?
This is actually one of the things I'm rather fond of pondering. Some writers tend to go for the idea that new slayers keep getting Chosen long after the spell is cast, which can work narrative-wise, but I don't quite buy it, something-else-wise (what? I'm tired, and I'm going to bed as soon as I finish this). I assume that things would go back to status quo after a few decades, unless some other weird thing happens. ::ponders::
Is any of this covered in Fray?
Not really. The deal with Fray is, sometime in the 21st century, a Slayer, with a few allies, goes head-to-head with a truly massive army of demons (we're talking dragons and Ascended in the mix), and when the dust settles, all the demons and magic power on Earth are gone. Over 200 years later, Melaka Fray is the first to be Chosen since. Although AtS wouldn't have gone this way if it had gotten a 6th season, I think this is as close to a canon resolution for NFA as we're going to get, as well.
Do you think W&H's/Vail's spell to give Connor a life gets broken when Vail dies/Angel reneges on his deal to "work for" W&H?
No. My view of the situation is that what Vail did wasn't just a spell--he rewrote reality, like you might rewrite a story. Vail didn't just make false memories of/for Connor with his new family, he made it so he had always been a part of that family. The memories that Wesley released were just backup files of a previous draft.
Do you think Spike's duster looks like it fits him?
No, the sleeves are too long, but not by much. If he'd stolen it from a store, he might have had to face the great too-big-or-too-small conundrum, and picked that size. The strange thing is it doesn't seem much bigger on Nikki, and she was definitely smaller than Spike (long limbed though). I wonder where she got it?