![[7.22-30.45] Shoddy Turok-Han](../wp-content/image-headlines/02f60c71e5a954521c702d2f3a6e4f8b.png){kind=small}
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Goof seen in: Chosen at 30.45
The Turok-Han seem really easy to kill, all of a sudden. The Scoobies seem to have no problem killing them, though it took Buffy a lot of effort to kill them earlier in the season. Obviously the effort of mass production has forced the First to turn out shoddy goods. |
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| Added: | › 24th September 2004 |
| Updated: | › 11th May, 2005 |
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9 Comments about “[7.22-30.45] Shoddy Turok-Han”
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March 16th, 2005 at 1:12 pm
All the slayers decapitate the Turok-Han. I don’t deny that they were hard to kill but they are easier to kill if you chop their heads off obviously
June 19th, 2005 at 9:59 pm
Isn’t it just an acknowledgement of the video game nature of villains? When first you meet an end of level baddie, it takes ages to take them down - three levels further on, you meet all of their mates and kill each one with a single blow.
Also, if they had kept to the original power level of the first ubervamp, then Giles, Xander, Principal Wood, Dawn and Andrew would all have died as well as poor dear Anya.
June 20th, 2005 at 12:31 pm
I think the reason Buffy had so much trouble with the first Turok Han was that she didn’t know how to kill it, or even whether it was killable. Remember she staked the first Turok Han with relative ease the first time they met.
Most of the Turoks killed in the final battle by the ‘civilians’ are killed by sword decapitation, when they are unarmed, which wouldn’t be too difficult to do now that the Scoobies know how to kill them. It would only be if someone went hand-to-hand that they’d be in trouble.
Puja
July 31st, 2005 at 10:42 am
But only one person had the scythe at any one time. We’re talking about why people like Giles, Wood and Anya can suddenly kill the ubervamps so easily.
July 31st, 2005 at 12:07 pm
Buffy managed to stake the Ubervamp when she first fought him but he didn’t dust and I think it was the shock of that and the fact that she didn’t know how to kill it, meant that she ran away.
But, to contradict myself, when she came up against the Ubervamp again, it almost killed her.
When she finally proved to the potentials that the Ubervamp could be killed, she had determination as she knew that the girls were losing faith in her so she had to prove that you could kill it.
In Chosen, the potentials were all slayers and I think that they knew they had to kill these things or die so they then had the same determination that Buffy had earlier.
Sorry, rambled on a bit there - been away for a week and just catching up on my Buffy/Angel fix!
August 10th, 2005 at 12:25 am
Mel: When Buffy came up against the Ubervamp the second time, she had no weapon and was jumped on from behind and beaten down before she had a chance ot get in a blow.
I think it was more that she didn’t know what would kill it, rather than them being actually unstoppable.
Makes sense that the Turok-hans would be not that difficult to kill if you’ve got a long sword, like Anya and Wood have.
Puja
August 31st, 2005 at 1:56 pm
I think it was because at first, they weren’t sure that it could be killed, and this showed in their fighting. After a while, they knew that they could be killed, and threw themselves into the fight properly
November 12th, 2005 at 3:27 pm
wouldnt it have made more sense for the new slayers to be using stakes, not knives and swords?
you can clearly see that most of the girls are just beating the vamps up, not staking them and vi was simply stabbing them with a KNIFE repeatedly. this wouldnt have even killed a regular vamp, it would’ve seriously injured it, but nothing life threatening. so how did they expect to win with knives, epecially not knowing what the amulet might do?
and a correction, not all the civilians had swords. somehow wood managed to defeat a group of bringers and ubervamps with 2 daggers and the help of giles
wow..i really went on haha, sorry these things have really been bothering me
December 22nd, 2005 at 11:01 pm
Obviously it would have made ultimately the most “sense” had all the crew at the school been armed with GPMG’s and flamethrowers, and laid down a barrage of suppressing fire around the Seal of Danzlathar, whilst at the same time denying the area to the bringers by stationing a platoon of slayers armed with snipers’ rifles on the roof of the school.
But this would have taken every once of soul out of the series, denied us the magnificent ending, and de-personalised every single character.
There’s always a more efficient way of getting a thing done - the reason those more efficient ways are not employed is that we’d have no characters left - just un-killable remotely operated tanks with mini-guns and flamethrowers. The guy in “Aliens” has it right - the only way is to take off and nuke the whole site from orbit. However, to simply do that and succeed would end the movie - so the REAL story there is Ripley’s struggle to do that single efficient thing. Same in 7.22.