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[pywacket]

Only 5 Episodes of BUFFY Left
> -
> With the final episode of BVTS
> beginning production today, the UPN series will return
> next Tuesday, April 15th, with the first of the series'
> final five episodes. In the episode, Faith rejoins the
> growing Scooby Gang, just as The First empowers a
> malevolent cleric (FIREFLY's Nathan Fillion) as its
> new right-hand man.
> The four remaining one-hour episodes of BUFFY will
> air on April 29th, May 6th, May 13th, and May 20th.
> http://www.upn.com

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Watch it on the wrong channel for that. But Joss announced post the 2nd death of Buffy that the line went through Faith. I've taken the current misstatements to be deliberate misdirection by the writers. Although I have a vague recollection of them realizing this in Season 6, since a 3rd Slayer wasn't activated.

Actually, this whole "2 slayers" thing is my vote for what is going on. (I avoid Spoilers like the plague as well.) The giant floating eyeball already said the First is doing this, sezing this opportunity, because of the Slayer's death and resurrection.

Anya immediately thought of what she and the other Scoobies did.

But she thought wrong. The death that screwed the pooch on the Slayer line is Buffy's first death, that in Season 1. That is what created 2 Slayers.

So maybe she keeps getting more and more powerful not because Slayers grow powerful with Age, but because she is past whatever limit death was supposed to impose? Regardless, from here you use magic-logic.

The Wiggins jumps from girl to girl, potential to potential. You can't kill them fast enough to erase it, because if for a nanosecond there aren't enough, it will just find another, even if it must wait. But!! If you kill all the potentials, then you kill the current slayer, the wiggins will go where it can. And where it can is the place it already was... Buffy.

Suddenly you have completed the circle this demonic power started so long ago. And the part of the power that is "jump to the next girl" has already been triggered. Which means when you kill Buffy this time, the Wiggins is gone forever. (Or just goes back to where it was taken from, that original exchange. Say... the physicality of the First, perhaps?)

Anyway, that's my theory.

Oh, and you're not wrong about what may potentially happen to Faith and Spike. But with the show ending, I think they would avoid that. (Very likely if it had gone on, though.)