Re: Jasruv's One-shots
Unread postPosted: August 19th, 2010, 2:26 am
I think it has to do with a few facts: 1) He's non-corporeal and thus totally untouchable (except by a divine shovel provided by the Creator), 2) his mooks gutted the Watchers organization and offed a lot of Potentials, 3) his minions and lieutenant were smacking around full-powered Slayers with relative impunity, 4) defeating him required extreme measures and almost didn't succeed.Though I've always wondered why so many people take the First at face value. He;s evil, why wouldn't he lie to make himself seem more powerful than he is. First Evil is just a name. I doubt he's as much of a fundamental force of nature as people make him out to be. Something that powerful and alien wouldn't bother with something as minor as the slayer line.
OR we could go "maybe in this universe, wicca's not like that. Maybe in 95% of universes, wicca's not like that. But in Buffyverses, wicca is actually how it's seen in the show!" Changes in alternate time lines is always an usable excuse, because maybe wicca 'evolved' differently in a world filled with things that go bump in the night like vampires and demons.It's much less of a headache to pretend the word "wicca" was never mentioned in BtVS, ever. Otherwise, you'll have to listen to me rant about neo-paganism, eclecticism, and religion for like a page, just because.