In article <g0u5dr$2blm$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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espie@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Marc Espie) wrote:
> In article <HsoYj.2802$aS1.1545@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> DavidW <no@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >As I mentioned in another thread, I am new to BTVS. I am just coming
> >up to the end of season 2. I am thinking back to the episode with
> >the other slayer, Kendra. She turned up because Buffy had died, very
> >briefly, earlier on. This implies that when one slayer dies, another
> >will soon replace her. From the vamps' point of view then, there's
> >no point in killing a slayer unless that slayer is a particularly
> >strong one like Buffy, since the replacement is most likely not
> >going to be as strong. Conversely, if the current slayer is a
> >particularly weak one, wouldn't it be in the vamps' interests to
> >protect her, since if they kill her the next one is likely to be
> >stronger?
>
> Are you kidding ?
>
> First, if the vamp is going to be killed by the slayer, then taking
> the upper hand and not dying is very much a priority.
>
> Timing is everything: if you get rid of Kendra, then you've got a
> HUGE gap of time before the next slayer comes to SunnyDale... by
> which time the end of world is going to have passed. Game over. We
> lose.
>
> Also, by and large, most vampires we see on Buffy are chaotic
> creatures (with a few notable exceptions). Kiling a slayer just
> because it looks like fun, and you're mostly immortal, and you're
> bored, is most definitely how the likes of Spike and Dru see it.
> There's also the status things of killing slayers.
>
> I also think that, since there's just one Slayer in the world, it's
> probably mostly the same as Santa Claus or the Boogeyman for
> Vampires. Since most vampires that meet slayers don't live to tell,
> there's very little actual knowledge for them to go on, and so going
> 1 on 1 on a slayer might look reasonable.
And since the new Slayer will probably get called on some other
continent, she stops being your problem, and becomes some other vamp's
problem.
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