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[bensanaz]

So I've been watching Buffy The Vampire Slayer through in order, having never seen more than an ep or two before starting this spree. It's pretty good. I just finished the season 3 episode "The Wish", and I had a bit of a thought in regard to it.

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[kouaidou]

It's been a while since I saw that episode, but I think Cleveland Buffy's war-weariness was in part implied to be the result of not having Giles as her watcher, and presumably the gang of light-hearted friends to keep her sane. I don't remember if she had a watcher at all in that continuity, actually.

[bensanaz]

She's implied to have a Watcher (Giles talks to someone on the phone asking that Buffy be sent over), but yeah, that is the presumable explanation. It's something to speculate about, though.

[colley]

I think they mentioned the Cleveland hellmouth in the final episode of the series, but it was more a throw away line.

From what I've seen, it can be presumed that Cleveland's isn't anywhere near half as bad as Sunnydale's.

[eiviiaru]

This touches on one of the things that I've never quite understood about BtVS continuity:

Seriously, only one Slayer in the world at a time? Or is it, like, one per continent? How does this possibly work? Why are huge swathes of the world not taken over by creatures of the night?

[jchance]

...oh, God, this gives me speculation bunnies. Maybe the Slayer is a lightning rod for trouble; wherever she is, the worst threats happen. Or maybe, darker still, there's a game of great powers ultimately staging battles by proxy...

[eiviiaru]

Yeah, because that isn't every White Wolf game ever?

[kouaidou]

I think there's something having to do with that there's only one "true" Slayer at any time who is destined and crap, and then there are other Slayers who are just like apprentice Slayers or something, and fight lesser evils and train and prepare in case the One True Slayer doesn't fulfill her duties. I think some of this was kind of covered in the episode where Buffy died and that other Slayer took her place for a while, but I recall being confused about it even at the time.

Then of course there's the "Whedon kind of made up the world as he went along" theory, but that's...you know...cynical.

[goggle_kid]

There was a reference to this episode in the last episode after they managed to seal off the Hellmouth. Giles dryly commented "There's another one in Cleveland."