This explains soooo much.

In the last year I’ve been given 5 scripts, each containing the words, “Vampire Slayer” in the title. 2 revolving around a “Hell Mouth”. All of which were “original material”.

Sorry for saying it, but… Woa you guys.

Interesting look at the demographic of your readers though!

HOWEVER…

In Buffy’s extended history, the events of the the comedy movie are sort of canon (sort of). After those events (I can’t remember which episode this was recounted) she admitted to her parents what had happened and her Slayer life. She WAS committed by her parents at that point, and she remained in the institution for a couple of weeks until she saw that convincing anyone that she was telling the truth was hopeless. So she kept her mouth shut.

Wikipedia touches on this — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffy_Summers

But anyway, sorry this became the Buffy forum, John.

Retcon has been part of my comic book reading for a long time, especially with DC’s history-rewriting events, and Marvel’s sliding timescale (Iron Man Tony Stark meeting friend Jim Rhodes in the 1st Gulf War instead of in Vietnam as was originally written).

Anonymous is correct. Anyone who thinks that actually happened should go watch the epsiode again. In fact, all episodes in any Whedon show should be watched a second time. I’m always amazed at the outright false interpretations of Whedon’s work. Like the person who thinks they changed Spike’s back story not understanding that we saw the old VAMPIRE Spike’s backstory first and then discovered his human backstory later.

On a related note, isn’t it nice that many John August fans also seem to be Buffy fans?

1) Spike was never a street thug.

2) The line was “You were my grandsire.”

1) Although never stated it was implied. But his actual nature as a gentleman wasn’t a retcon.

2) The line was “You were my Sire man, my Yoda.” Not “grandsire”. Trust me.

As far as the sire thing goes – we eventually learned that Drusilla was Spike’s sire but Angel sired Drusilla.

In “School Hard” (his first appearance) Spike did call Angel his sire. I’m sure at the time the writers meant that Angel was the one who turned Spike, but the line still kind of works in continuity since Spike is still a “descendant” of Angel.

Eventually Spike had a line (sometime in the last season of Angel I believe) where he referred to Angel with the more technically correct term “grandsire�.

We are also given an incorrect age for Spike in “School Hard” but that can easily be explained away as a mistake in one of Giles’ books.