[6.16-32.02] Bad mythology

Goof seen in: Hell's Bells at 32.02

The demon pretending to be Xander says that he was a victim of one of Anyanka’s spells many years ago. In The Wish, when Giles destroyed Anyanka’s power centre necklace, he said it would return her to human form and reverse all the spells she has granted - so the spell on the faux-Xander should have been reversed too.

   
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    Added: › 4th October 2004
    Updated: › 2nd June, 2005
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    6 Comments about “[6.16-32.02] Bad mythology”

    1. Saintsaucey says:

      yeah i noticed that when i was re watching the wish

    2. Angel242 says:

      Then this also would include Olaf The troll, shouldn’t he be back to normal??

    3. The_True_Xander says:

      No because she cast the troll-making spell when she was human, because Olaf had cheated on her. That spell got her the gig as a vengeance demon. At least, I think that’s how it goes…

    4. All4Spike says:

      I assumed that Giles had got it wrong, or that the book he had found the reference in was wrong. His research has turned out to be wrong before, notably about Spike’s age, which he said was ‘barely 200′ rather than 124, as it would have been in S2 (Spike says he is ‘only 126′ in ‘The Initiative’ in S4), and about Drusilla dying in Prague.

    5. The_True_Xander says:

      I always thought that the demon guy hadn’t been affected by the Anyanka undoing because he was in some other dimension, and the amulets breaking only spanned the dimension that it was in at the time. Or something.

    6. All4Spike says:

      Surely to undo all of Anyanka’s vengeance spells would have affected world history so much *everything* would have been different, not just this one aspect of reality concerning the slayer and Sunnydale.
      It was shown in the episode ‘Selfless’ that she and Halfrek had a major part in causing the Russian Revolution, and there must have been other curses in the 1000 years of her actions that changed history in a similar manner.
      Not sure how the destruction of the amulet could just reverse one curse and not the others though… perhaps it was just the last spell she had cast that would be reversed?

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