What the por little rich girl wants is to stop the dreaming, to sever the psychic connection linking all Slayers past and present, to break the chain. The beauty of that metaphor is that it’s so double edged. Gigi’s understanding of it may be selfish and childish but like the General claiming to be humanity’s defender what she’s planning to do can so easily be spun positively, for example as freeing the girls Buffy and Willow have made slaves to duty. Very interesting point! And also Buffy being referred to as a Queen and slayers as her spawns by Vol makes me think of her as a queen of the bee-hive or of an anthill - kill the queen and the whole community is gone. Maybe all slayer powers are still stored in Buffy in some way and if she dies their powers are gone too... And a great way to tie into "Chain", too.
The only problem here is that GiGi mentions having dreams since 1st tampon, which would be way before Buffy called the slayers (she's 19 so give it at least 4-5 yrs). If death of Buffy were to free everyone it would mean for those girls not to go back to Potentials but to normal people entirely. As dreams come with being Potentials, not Slayers.
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Very interesting point! And also Buffy being referred to as a Queen and slayers as her spawns by Vol makes me think of her as a queen of the bee-hive or of an anthill - kill the queen and the whole community is gone.
Maybe all slayer powers are still stored in Buffy in some way and if she dies their powers are gone too... And a great way to tie into "Chain", too.
The only problem here is that GiGi mentions having dreams since 1st tampon, which would be way before Buffy called the slayers (she's 19 so give it at least 4-5 yrs). If death of Buffy were to free everyone it would mean for those girls not to go back to Potentials but to normal people entirely. As dreams come with being Potentials, not Slayers.