Is it time to kill Buffy and Faith

[nightshade]

However Kendra only fought with Buffy because she saw her with a vampire, they didn't fight again after it was cleared up

 

[TriBel]

Maybe the reason why there was only one slayer, because it is in the nature of slayers to fight and destroy each other. Can two slayers work together without turning on each other? With empowered slayers, always had a feeling it would turn into a Hunger Game.

Maybe the reason the Shadow Men made a single slayer was to keep other women "in their place" - to make the concept of "strong woman" an anomaly - the exception not the rule? If everyone were Superman/Superwoman then no one would be Superman or Superwoman.

 

[thrasherpix]

Ah, a new way to see why Buffy was upset that Dru killed Kendra. "Because I had to kill her first to prove I'm the better Slayer."

 

[Faith 2019]

Ah, a new way to see why Buffy was upset that Dru killed Kendra. "Because I had to kill her first to prove I'm the better Slayer."

I wish Kendra was around than two shows. Still, with less than 2 hours, they were in a fight. Buffy was rude to her, challenging her into another fight and backed down, told Kendra she was the better slayer, told Kendra she would win a fight with her. Yep, she was making it clear she was the top slayer.

 

[DeadlyDuo]

Yep, she was making it clear she was the top slayer.

I disagree. Kendra was brought up very much to follow orders without question. Buffy was essentially saying "it doesn't work like that". Kendra struggled in both her fights against Spike and Drusilla (so much so that Buffy had to swap with her in the Spike fight) because they improvised. Spike has experience of killing two slayers so he's not a run of the mill vampire that Kendra is used to fighting whilst Kendra was completely out of her depth with Drusilla. Kendra knows barely anything about Drusilla so she wasn't prepared for the hypnosis, hence why Drusilla was able to kill her so quickly.

 

[Faith 2019]

I disagree. Kendra was brought up very much to follow orders without question. Buffy was essentially saying "it doesn't work like that". Kendra struggled in both her fights against Spike and Drusilla (so much so that Buffy had to swap with her in the Spike fight) because they improvised. Spike has experience of killing two slayers so he's not a run of the mill vampire that Kendra is used to fighting whilst Kendra was completely out of her depth with Drusilla. Kendra knows barely anything about Drusilla so she wasn't prepared for the hypnosis, hence why Drusilla was able to kill her so quickly.

True, and it was a pointless death.

 

[DeadlyDuo]

True, and it was a pointless death.

They had to show how dangerous Drusilla could be somehow.

 

[Faith 2019]

They had to show how dangerous Drusilla could be somehow.

Killing a new character with less than two hours of air time really makes her character more or less a worthless character. Just me, but having a second slayer, really gets placed in the back of the bus.

 

[TamsinValencia]

No I don’t want Buffy and Faith to kill each other lol

 

[AlphaFoxtrot]

If, a new series is treating the 90s series as canon, I do think they should get back to the movie scenario, that is, a limited number of slayers, and widespread skepticism towards the supernatural. I could easily see a scenario where either character passes the torch to the new slayer, at the cost of their life.

If it's the Fray scenario, where the war is over, but the Slayer is being called for a new threat, maybe.

If it's the Cow scenario, Buffy should be out there, and should only appear after a few years. Cow would be, humanity lost, or is losing. Post apocalyptic YA lit is hot these days.

 

[simdagger]

Kendra struggled in both her fights against Spike and Drusilla

Not as much as she struggled with acting or a plausible accent.

 

[AlphaFoxtrot]

Re: Kendra & Spike: Everyone had problems with Spike. Buffy never killed him, he swatted Xander like a fly, he took an axe from Joyce, he beat Angel and Angelus, and he got the best shot of the day on Caleb, and he had all the power of the Patriarchy!

Re: Kendra & Dru: Drusilla defeated Kendra through her mental powers. The Master's mental powers were enough to enthrall Buffy, twice. It should also be noted that Dru was successful in breaking Giles, a man who had just resisted torture at the hands of Angelus, and whose basic training involved discerning truth from illusion. So, unless Kendra's willpower stat is better than either Giles or Buffy's, she wasn't going to survive that.

 

[LovyDovySpuffy]

No.

Buffy was forced to be a vampire slayer. She was forced to be part of a slayer killing mission. None of these things represent female empowerment. It represents forcing females to become slayers without asking their permisison first and making them to kill each other. It's treating female slayers like disposable garbage without mercy. It's not the kind of role model I want for females in 2023. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" was popular for a good reason decades ago. But it was based on a story where females don't have a choice to become slayers and they are expected to kill each other. It's not compassionate. It's not promoting freedom of choice to be who you want to be. Even though there were funny and epic things about "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", I don't think it represented female empowerment properly.

Faith and Buffy were awesome. They ended up being nice to each other. Having them kill each other would just be disappointing to me.

Also, I just want to point that Sarah Michelle Gellar got tired of portraying Buffy during season 3. Other cast members may be tired of portraying characters from "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", too.

 

[Tome]

Kendra was a boring, overly caricatural character. No thank you for me, on that front.

As for killing Buffy and Faith in a possible reboot... why? You don't have to kill anyone. Just focus on new characters. The world is large!

 

[AlphaFoxtrot]

Eh, works for the Doctor. I always found it weird that someone who is supposed to live for several hundred years can’t seem to make it two seasons of “Sherlock” without a regeneration.

But If they are going to keep the Comics in continuity, they will have to take some kind of action to keep her from sent to train in Scotland, or whatever. Reducing the number of slayers is one. Having a different branch of the Watchers train her is another.