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Topic: "You cannot comprehend the source of our power."
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Vox Scooby Gang Member Posts: 156 Registered: Mar 2000
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posted 27-05-2000 11:51 PM
So what did comboSlayer mean when she said that?In my opinion it comes down to two options: 1) That Adam could never comprehend the power Buffy and the Scooby Gang's friendship gave them because he could never experience anything like it  2) The more likely reason that the source of their power was their magic incantation. Magic, of course, being something that was never considered in the design of Adam. 
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C Bit Character Posts: 51 Registered: May 2000
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posted 28-05-2000 12:11 AM
Or that the source of the slayer's power was a primeval meta-slayer, and that combo-slayer was channeling meta-slayer directly rather than merely being an aspect of her.C 
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julz Scooby Gang Member Posts: 155 Registered: Feb 2000
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posted 28-05-2000 12:41 AM
Im going to lay my prediction hat in the ring and say that that is going to lead somewhere (maybe next ep, even)... it was too weird to be a one-off, plus very weird event, plus very weird events in advert for restless...2+2=... 
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Alex Scooby Gang Member Posts: 97 Registered: Mar 2000
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posted 28-05-2000 12:10 PM
quote: Originally posted by Vox: So what did comboSlayer mean when she said that? 2) The more likely reason that the source of their power was their magic incantation. Magic, of course, being something that was never considered in the design of Adam.
That would make sense, except that in Superstar Adam understood what was going on better than anybody else, and he certainly knew about magic. 
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Vox Scooby Gang Member Posts: 156 Registered: Mar 2000
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posted 28-05-2000 12:52 PM
I've gone back and looked at what Willow chanted: "The power of the Slayer and all who yield it. Last to ancient first, we invoke thee. Grant us thy domain and primal strength. Accept us in the power we possess."
So it seems that the power that Adam could never hope to grasp was the power of the Slayer, whatever force it is that has granted the Slayers down through the ages their mystic strength. Which, to my mind, begs the question, where on earth did they come up with this spell? There were two spells in operation at the time, the first was the conjoining one which joined Buffy/Xander/Willow/Giles together to allow Buffy to utilise their separate abilities. comboSlayer then used that ability to call forth this power of the primeval Slayer deal. But when they were planning this operation the spell that Giles picked out he said was some sort of immobilising spell written in Sumerian. So how did the immobilising spell turn into the primeval spell?

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C Bit Character Posts: 51 Registered: May 2000
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posted 28-05-2000 10:22 PM
My take was that thinking about the immobilising spell gave Giles the idea of the combo-slayer spell, which is presumably in the "In case of emergency..." section at the back of the "Ye Olde Watcherse Spelle Booke" the get as graduation presents from the council.C 
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Thebigd_17 Scooby Gang Member Posts: 310 Registered: Dec 99
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posted 29-05-2000 04:11 PM
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quote: Originally posted by Vox: But when they were planning this operation the spell that Giles picked out he said was some sort of immobilising spell written in Sumerian.So how did the immobilising spell turn into the primeval spell?
I wondered the exact same thing
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Joe Scooby Gang Member Posts: 235 Registered: Feb 2000
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posted 02-06-2000 03:03 AM
Getting back to the 'source of our power' thing, I think Buffy and the previous Slayers get their strength and other powers from the restless spirit of the original Slayer, who would have been *much* more powerful than a modern human. It's a symbiotic relationship facilitated by the Powers That Be. The one snag is that this spirit seems to be imbuing two separate people with Slayer powers, but I think that one of them (probably Buffy, since she actually died) has had her powers sustained by the PTB in return for her outstanding contribution to the Cause. Well, that's what I think  
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Idiot Jed Scooby Gang Member Posts: 137 Registered: Jan 2000
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posted 02-06-2000 08:26 AM
What I got from the whole thing was that they were trying to tie up the Adam plot with the friendship one, and so the primevil spell. Incredibly dangerous, harnessing a power beyond comprehension. Basically too powerful for any one person to conjure. The group effort, mind-heart-hand-soul, come together as one and only then can such potent energies be redirected.Presumiably why Adam couldn't even hope to comprehend the source of their power is because, although he's made up of many different parts, none of them are whole, and the force of two or more people coming together is accepting all of them, faults and all, in order to benefit from their unique strengths. Trying to attach all of the strengths and just cutting out the weaknesses is not enough. The fact that Spike bursts in on the after-effects of this spell to save their lives I find very interesting. Because, although trying to be all evil, his stirring actually brought the group together when they needed it most. I'm presuming the first Slayer got annoyed because she didn't have anyone, as with most of the Slayers, and so her strength, though great, could never match up to the scooby gang as a whole. The rather sweet moral of the story - friendship is the most powerful entity on this plain. (thats sort of what I got from the whole thing anyway) [This message has been edited by Idiot Jed (edited 02-06-2000).] 
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