Save that there's no Internal Affairs Division. No civilian authority or oversight. From a governance/society, that's the concern. Civilians are just as excluded from the corridor of power as they were twenty years prior.
No, but I didn't think that there was necessarily time to plan out a new world order at that particular moment. I suppose I still consider the number of activated Slayers to make up a relatively small portion of the population; I mean, they'd found all they *could* find, supposedly, and there were perhaps 50 girls total in and around the house over the last half of the season? A few hundred worldwide, maybe a thousand, tops, had been my feeling. So...I guess I'm not seeing a "corridor of power" from which humans are excluded. Unless and until the Slayer Army decides its job is to step outside of the traditional Slayer duties and start influencing world government or something. Honestly, we have no idea how many pies the WC had their thumbs in, what they were up to. It seems to me more like a loose voluntary network has been created. If Slayers opt in, there's support, there's training, they're not left isolated and alone if they don't want to be, but Buffy and her friends seem to be largely...vacationing right now. And the actual day to day ops of the Slayers who have chosen to reside in England, which since Giles wants to live there I suppose makes it still Watchers HQ, seem to be being run by two humans. Two male humans.
What are the Slayers and their human associates governing, other than the killing of vampires and evil demons, and their own when one of them becomes problematic a la Dana? What halls of power are humans being denied their rightful place within? Slayers don't seem to be interfering in any other hall of power, at least at this point, but sticking to their traditional role. I suppose a group of superpowered humans of either gender could, if they wished, begin a plan to take over world government, but...well, see above about no more than 1000 Slayers. I don't think there are enough Slayers, or ever will be, to enable them to become the Master Race or something.
What relationship do you imagine existing between slayers and non-slayer society? I mean, what *immediate* relationship that could've been achieved over the course of late S7 BtVS/S5 AtS? Or could've been articulated as a goal, at the least? I suppose ideally all humans would be forced to deal with the reality of what goes on around them; that demons exist, that their religious faiths are invalidated, etc. That would certainly enable them to defend themselves more ably against invading demons. But..is that what you're asking them to do? Force a vanilla world to de-mundane itself? I don't think that's a bad goal overall...obviously there's a version of the future Buffyverse in which the world has undergone a forced de-mundanization - the Fray series.
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No, but I didn't think that there was necessarily time to plan out a new world order at that particular moment. I suppose I still consider the number of activated Slayers to make up a relatively small portion of the population; I mean, they'd found all they *could* find, supposedly, and there were perhaps 50 girls total in and around the house over the last half of the season? A few hundred worldwide, maybe a thousand, tops, had been my feeling. So...I guess I'm not seeing a "corridor of power" from which humans are excluded. Unless and until the Slayer Army decides its job is to step outside of the traditional Slayer duties and start influencing world government or something. Honestly, we have no idea how many pies the WC had their thumbs in, what they were up to. It seems to me more like a loose voluntary network has been created. If Slayers opt in, there's support, there's training, they're not left isolated and alone if they don't want to be, but Buffy and her friends seem to be largely...vacationing right now. And the actual day to day ops of the Slayers who have chosen to reside in England, which since Giles wants to live there I suppose makes it still Watchers HQ, seem to be being run by two humans. Two male humans.
What are the Slayers and their human associates governing, other than the killing of vampires and evil demons, and their own when one of them becomes problematic a la Dana? What halls of power are humans being denied their rightful place within? Slayers don't seem to be interfering in any other hall of power, at least at this point, but sticking to their traditional role. I suppose a group of superpowered humans of either gender could, if they wished, begin a plan to take over world government, but...well, see above about no more than 1000 Slayers. I don't think there are enough Slayers, or ever will be, to enable them to become the Master Race or something.
What relationship do you imagine existing between slayers and non-slayer society? I mean, what *immediate* relationship that could've been achieved over the course of late S7 BtVS/S5 AtS? Or could've been articulated as a goal, at the least? I suppose ideally all humans would be forced to deal with the reality of what goes on around them; that demons exist, that their religious faiths are invalidated, etc. That would certainly enable them to defend themselves more ably against invading demons. But..is that what you're asking them to do? Force a vanilla world to de-mundane itself? I don't think that's a bad goal overall...obviously there's a version of the future Buffyverse in which the world has undergone a forced de-mundanization - the Fray series.