Honestly? That part doesn't bug me so much. It's the idea that they're refusing so hard to believe that it's a lot more likely it's just separate dimensions and that their fiction is simply bleed-over from others. There are some people who are considered fiction in my universe. Others I have no idea who are. Absolutely refusing to admit that we're really real is the more dangerous part isn't it? Along with.. other things I've noticed and can't really say I like.
The whole thing is just off. The rate of super-powered people or super geniuses or you know, people that are "special" one way or another versus normal people is insane. Almost everyone's a super hero or something.
If they were really just making people real to help, then there'd be a lot more normal people, wouldn't there? Like romance novel protagonists and also wouldn't they try to bring people exclusively from the 20th to 22nd centuries? People who'd have no trouble adapting to the technology level here. But they don't, they bring people from all over with all sort of powers. There's no clear system, they seem to bring whoever they think will be entertaining, and then when they're not entertaining they're "released." Whatever that means.
All of that leads to the big question "What do you do with a bunch of kidnapped superheroes once they've come to accept your way of thinking enough to let them go?"
[ That's what Buffy's worried about. The only time they're "released" according to what she's heard is when they decide that they're ready for society. So what does "ready" mean? If there are this many people with powers, then.. well, ready might be something not quite as innocent as capable of sustaining themselves. ]
I don't know if anyone's actually been let go, though. I mean, people get "released" but we don't know what that means and there's no warning. I mean, if you were gonna be released into society because you're fixed, you'd get advance notice, right?
Other scenarios still have a tiny chance of change even if they suck beyond belief. Death's the one thing humans aren't meant to come back from. I'm counting it as worst-case.
You're thinking small scale. I'm not saying get more people in on it, I'm saying get everyone. If whatever it is you're fighting is hiding in plain sight, the second knowledge becomes public they're screwed.
Believe me, if it were that simple it'd be over and done with. People don't want to talk about it and they don't believe a single word that someone says if they mention it. People who do know don't really go for the whole trying to understand what's happening thing either, they just go straight for the whole "faster pussycat, kill kill" bit no matter who they're talking about.
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If they were really just making people real to help, then there'd be a lot more normal people, wouldn't there? Like romance novel protagonists and also wouldn't they try to bring people exclusively from the 20th to 22nd centuries? People who'd have no trouble adapting to the technology level here. But they don't, they bring people from all over with all sort of powers. There's no clear system, they seem to bring whoever they think will be entertaining, and then when they're not entertaining they're "released." Whatever that means.
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[ That's what Buffy's worried about. The only time they're "released" according to what she's heard is when they decide that they're ready for society. So what does "ready" mean? If there are this many people with powers, then.. well, ready might be something not quite as innocent as capable of sustaining themselves. ]
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[ It's supposed to be one person. The handful of people is really a Buffy-specific trait. ]
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