Date Posted:21:28:15 02/19/03 Wed Author: Sgt. Rock Subject: How about this... In reply to:
Faithsguy
's message, "Could the four horseman..." on 20:26:43 02/19/03 Wed
This is trying to bring a few different ideas together so bear with me:
While back in England searching through what's left of the council Giles come upon the Tiberius Manifesto. This was mentioned back in S1 as being one of the great sources of slayer prophecy. It explains about the vamped slayer who was the origin of aurelius line. This is why The Master, Angel, Dru, Darla and Spike are so powerful, and why their destinies are linked to the slayer. It gives an explanation of judgement day but is very cryptic (ie, once everything's happened the prophecies make sense, but beforehand you don't know what's going to happen)
The vamped slayer turns up in Ep 4, unleashing all kinds of mayhem in Sunnydale, but is waiting for her time to complete her task. In Episode 8 the horsemen turn up with the first in a series of jewels to bring about judgement day. The jewels fit into a altar, as each one goes in it bring the world one stage closer to judgement day (stages are visible to the world, but not too over the top, extreme weather conditions, rioting etc...). Once 5 jewels have been fit, the combined power of slayer and vampire in one being is used to open the hellmouth and bring forth the demon that bit the human thousands of years ago and created the first vampire, making it the true beginning of the line. But having been in hell for thousands of years is now huge. This happens at the end of ep 17 kicking off the big finale story arc.
This would leave the horsemen trying to get the final jewel and a huge demon to contend with for the last 5 eps.
