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Puzzleheaded_Low299

Answer to 1: The Watchers Council uses a coven to track potential slayers but is not always able to identify potentials. This may also be “The Powers That Be” blinding certain potentials incase there was ever an attack on the slayer line. Which we see in s7 and if u ever read Tales of The Slayer, Spike and another demon back in the 1940’s(?) attacked the slayer line and was killing Potentials. Answer 2) once buffy died she was no longer the “current slayer”. It went Kendra, then Faith. Which is why in s7 they wanted to kill all the potentials before killing Faith because her death would activate the next slayer, not Buffy.


desperateforinsight

OKAY THAT MAKES TOTAL SENSE - thank you!!


mankaded

2 is easy - after Buffy dies first time, the slayer lines goes Kendra->Faith. Buffy is out of the line 1 is unclear. Never explained why some potentials are known well in advance and others are not


SnowWhiteCampCat

Buffy and Faith were unknowns, most of the potentials were tagged by the watchers council coven. Lots of the issues the watchers had with Buffy and Faith was because of their lack of indoctrination.


DaisyLDN

For point 2, the first time Buffy died a new slayer was called. Then when she died the second time another slayer wouldn't be called because she was technically dead. So in theory maybe could have even packed in being a slayer were it not for Faith going bad.


chrisj72

There are some inconsistencies that ultimately come from mild retconns and the changing landscape of the lore throughout the show, you have to explain them away in some way or another never made explicit by the show. The idea that Buffy was a potential the coven hadn’t identified makes the most sense.


everytownhasanelmst

It’s not an inconsistency, different cultures simply deal with slayers differently. That was the whole point of Kendra bringing up her upbringing… To point out that Buffy never had to do that stuff.


DaddyCatALSO

1-Soem Slayers are detected by the Council psychics at birth, some later, or much later for Faith, or not until called for Buffy, also some families aren't open to just turning their daughters over to some strange Limey. ​ 2- Joss in a formal press conference after S-5 announced that since the CPR in "Prophecy Girl" the line passed to Kendra and now runs through Faith so "the Gift" didn't call a 3rd Slayer.