First of all let me say I am LOVING all this meta and talk. Then, let me babble:
follow up with every single one off character That's what fanfic is for. In good fandoms :)
They dont get a chance to be good though Maybe they do! Maybe they save the world from other things we don't hear about. Again, what fanfic is for. Maybe every one of these no-name no-dialogue characters have a whole world that they save and monsters they fight and therapy they should probably get.
Does Sunnydale have a high teacher turnover? We dont know. I'm gonna guess hell yeah. Many probably die. Many others manage to leave town because this town is horrible in every way. Some probably get turned and staked for all we know. Endless possibilities. I'm having fun just thinking about it.
The slayer being isolated iirc is brought up because Buffy *isn't*, relatively to all others before her. She has family and friends whereas they had watchers and early graves.
distributing knowledge Now I'm thinking of Natasha leaking the files. Let Willow leak files!
the nucleus around which forms a community I would love that. It takes a village. A supporting community around the chosen ones is great. And it can or can not become part of "the whole world knows the secret and rehauls all its systems", depending how big you want the community part to grow. But rehauling the whole system - what you said, what the Council should be like, and that's supposedly the comics and more so the post-chosen fanfic, where Giles rehauls the council to be more inclusive and less secret, where slayers are a small community and not a single isolated weapon.
But yeah grown-up-fantasy-scifi tends to lean towards the dark and gloomy or gory, which takes a lot of the fun out of it.
make the Hyperion into housing for Gunn's friends the homeless kids Love this
I think the Watchers are ancient but were not always British. I think the "colonial patriarchy" took over and established itself on the ruins of many groups of Watchers from many places with many traditions - which, you know, fits with history too, and with what little we see of non-uk watchers
Giles to confront the difference between that magic was bad and all magic was bad. ... okay magic as drugs is really baked in, but, difference between drug abuse was bad and you should probably take meds sometimes.
Doing heroin in a dingy flat and dying of ODs and STDs bad, some weed on the weekend and maybe shrooms on a holiday not so bad (I can see Ethan positing that very theory)
Sunnydale support group I think I saw the fic. There should definitely be a lot more of it
An Important Talk with the mantis lady, maybe involving sperm banks I may misremember, but I think the problem was less the sperm, more the eating of entire human beings
smash the god Aw well it's not the god, is it, just a statue, an artefact/representation. A vessel. Still bad maybe(memories of "the sacking of the temple" stories from my Jewish childhood), but it's not quite the same as smashing the actual god... which they also did in other cases, iirc. I mean Glory. Illyria.
Anyway I am having fun and my brain is buzzing and so many wonderful worlds sprawling away from every single unexplored corner of the show is why I got into fandom. Thanks for the exercise :)
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follow up with every single one off character
That's what fanfic is for. In good fandoms :)
They dont get a chance to be good though
Maybe they do! Maybe they save the world from other things we don't hear about. Again, what fanfic is for. Maybe every one of these no-name no-dialogue characters have a whole world that they save and monsters they fight and therapy they should probably get.
Does Sunnydale have a high teacher turnover? We dont know.
I'm gonna guess hell yeah. Many probably die. Many others manage to leave town because this town is horrible in every way. Some probably get turned and staked for all we know. Endless possibilities. I'm having fun just thinking about it.
The slayer being isolated iirc is brought up because Buffy *isn't*, relatively to all others before her. She has family and friends whereas they had watchers and early graves.
distributing knowledge
Now I'm thinking of Natasha leaking the files. Let Willow leak files!
the nucleus around which forms a community
I would love that. It takes a village. A supporting community around the chosen ones is great. And it can or can not become part of "the whole world knows the secret and rehauls all its systems", depending how big you want the community part to grow. But rehauling the whole system - what you said, what the Council should be like, and that's supposedly the comics and more so the post-chosen fanfic, where Giles rehauls the council to be more inclusive and less secret, where slayers are a small community and not a single isolated weapon.
But yeah grown-up-fantasy-scifi tends to lean towards the dark and gloomy or gory, which takes a lot of the fun out of it.
make the Hyperion into housing for Gunn's friends the homeless kids
Love this
I think the Watchers are ancient but were not always British. I think the "colonial patriarchy" took over and established itself on the ruins of many groups of Watchers from many places with many traditions - which, you know, fits with history too, and with what little we see of non-uk watchers
Giles to confront the difference between that magic was bad and all magic was bad.
... okay magic as drugs is really baked in, but, difference between drug abuse was bad and you should probably take meds sometimes.
Doing heroin in a dingy flat and dying of ODs and STDs bad, some weed on the weekend and maybe shrooms on a holiday not so bad (I can see Ethan positing that very theory)
Sunnydale support group
I think I saw the fic. There should definitely be a lot more of it
An Important Talk with the mantis lady, maybe involving sperm banks
I may misremember, but I think the problem was less the sperm, more the eating of entire human beings
smash the god
Aw well it's not the god, is it, just a statue, an artefact/representation. A vessel. Still bad maybe(memories of "the sacking of the temple" stories from my Jewish childhood), but it's not quite the same as smashing the actual god... which they also did in other cases, iirc. I mean Glory. Illyria.
Anyway I am having fun and my brain is buzzing and so many wonderful worlds sprawling away from every single unexplored corner of the show is why I got into fandom. Thanks for the exercise :)