Did she...did she create the refugee crisis? I have to admit that I could be wrong in my understanding that she was simply continuing to stand her ground and reacting to events the FE was driving, and that she actually created the crisis that drove everyone out of town. I mean, I could only sit through most of that dreck in fast-forward, and once. I can't even remember *why* people were getting out of town; like, a feeling of impending doom that didn't prevent kids from going to the Bronze, is the best I can recall.
But if she didn't manufacture the crisis, I don't see that Buffy's failure to find some way to make every girl in the whole world regardless of their "line" a Slayer as a particular failure on her part. I mean, there was a thing they could do, so they did it, and that they didn't do a thing that I...am not sure they *could've* done, well, I don't see how it's relevant. Making more Slayers should be a good thing; if even half of them want to pursue that calling, even part-time, hey, it'll be a help. A few more dead vamps/demons never hurt anyone. Heck, forget all the girls in the world. There are people who aren't girls. Why can't everybody be a Slayer? Then we'll alllllllll be on a level playing field. Well, terrific, but I'm not sure Willow has time to come up with a spell to turn everyone into Slayers, but she does have an idea for taking this here *shudder* magical axe we just discovered and using it to release the potential Slayerness in girls who already have it. Better'n nothing.
Of course, I've always viewed it as a release of natural existing power unnaturally bound rather than a forced imposition of something unnatural upon the unwilling/unasked, since simply having the power doesn't force a person to participate in the mission. I mean, it did when there was only one Slayer at a time; guilt/duty/etc. was shoved onto her forcing her to participate whether she wanted to or not. But now there are plenty who can, so the ones who just don't want to can use their powers to remove particularly difficult jar lids, etc. The mission and the abilities are now separate.
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But if she didn't manufacture the crisis, I don't see that Buffy's failure to find some way to make every girl in the whole world regardless of their "line" a Slayer as a particular failure on her part. I mean, there was a thing they could do, so they did it, and that they didn't do a thing that I...am not sure they *could've* done, well, I don't see how it's relevant. Making more Slayers should be a good thing; if even half of them want to pursue that calling, even part-time, hey, it'll be a help. A few more dead vamps/demons never hurt anyone. Heck, forget all the girls in the world. There are people who aren't girls. Why can't everybody be a Slayer? Then we'll alllllllll be on a level playing field. Well, terrific, but I'm not sure Willow has time to come up with a spell to turn everyone into Slayers, but she does have an idea for taking this here *shudder* magical axe we just discovered and using it to release the potential Slayerness in girls who already have it. Better'n nothing.
Of course, I've always viewed it as a release of natural existing power unnaturally bound rather than a forced imposition of something unnatural upon the unwilling/unasked, since simply having the power doesn't force a person to participate in the mission. I mean, it did when there was only one Slayer at a time; guilt/duty/etc. was shoved onto her forcing her to participate whether she wanted to or not. But now there are plenty who can, so the ones who just don't want to can use their powers to remove particularly difficult jar lids, etc. The mission and the abilities are now separate.