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by Ardath Buffy s3e10 Kindly donated by Jade's BtVS Theories I find it interesting to note that pretty much the same thing happened to Buffy as to Faith, though. Giles was Buffy's second Watcher, after all. Her first one, Merrick, was murdered by vampires before her eyes. That was part of what culminated in the burning of her old high school's gym. Once again, the Watcher's Council didn't actually step in for a while. For a few months, their Slayer swore off Slaying, "been there, done that, and I'm moving on." Then she moved to Sunnydale and found a new Watcher waiting for her there. It seems that the whole concept of a Watcher dying first has taken the Council by surprise. Their dictum seems to be that the Watcher stays in the background, trains the Slayer and researches her foes, and then sends her out to do the fighting. Wesley mentioned that the "new" style of Watcher training has a much higher emphasis on field-work, which may indicate that the Council is attempting to remedy the problem by beefing up the combat skills of future Watchers. But in the meantime, there's not much sign that they put all that much emphasis on the psychological and spiritual well-being of their Slayers, or at least that they have in the past. The whole psych evaluation that Buffy and Faith are undergoing seems to be the kind that would be given if one had never been given to anyone before. Kind of "let's test them on everything so we can start to figure out what things we need to know about in the future." The Watcher's Council is used to Slayers dying on them very young. They're not as used to Watchers dying, or dealing with post-traumatic stress disorders in their Slayers. And the whole concept of the adolescent psyche is something that has only just emerged in the 20th century, so it figures they'd be a bit confused about that as well. Your opinion Or you can
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