That, and/or try to figure out ways to permanently cauterize a Hellhole.
And, genre conventions aside, why don't they blow the public whistle on the whole Supernatural Beasties business? In a place like Sunnydale, collecting a superfluity of compelling evidence should be a trivial procedure. Yeah, there are Supernatural Beasties entrenched in high places, but can they really control all the media?
I don't remember if the show ever explored whether vampires were affected by a UV lamp; but they did demonstrate that you could reliably detect vampire body temperature at range with a handheld gadget. If you can get those into mass production then vampires are pretty much toast; I bet the general public could cull the vamp population by at least 90% within a couple of months.
In the commentaries on the Buffy S4 DVDs, a writer explains that one of the things they were trying to show was that when science goes up against magic, science gets its butt kicked. I wanted to shake the TV and yell, "How can you write these episodes yourself and not see that they're making exactly the opposite point?" The Initiative was doing quite well -- starting slowly, compared to Buffy, but they were figuring things out as they went instead of having centuries of experience advising them -- but they were handling the monsters pretty handily until they were taken down from inside by deranged mad-scientisting. Science was making a darned good showing for itself, really.
(Sorry; got a little ranty there. Ahem.)
Anyway, an alert populace could handle most of the run-of-the-mill threats themselves, leaving the rogue gods and whatnot to the Slayers, agents of the PTB, and other forces of Goodness. And even those guys could benefit from being able to call in the odd artillery strike or two.
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And, genre conventions aside, why don't they blow the public whistle on the whole Supernatural Beasties business? In a place like Sunnydale, collecting a superfluity of compelling evidence should be a trivial procedure. Yeah, there are Supernatural Beasties entrenched in high places, but can they really control all the media?
I don't remember if the show ever explored whether vampires were affected by a UV lamp; but they did demonstrate that you could reliably detect vampire body temperature at range with a handheld gadget. If you can get those into mass production then vampires are pretty much toast; I bet the general public could cull the vamp population by at least 90% within a couple of months.
In the commentaries on the Buffy S4 DVDs, a writer explains that one of the things they were trying to show was that when science goes up against magic, science gets its butt kicked. I wanted to shake the TV and yell, "How can you write these episodes yourself and not see that they're making exactly the opposite point?" The Initiative was doing quite well -- starting slowly, compared to Buffy, but they were figuring things out as they went instead of having centuries of experience advising them -- but they were handling the monsters pretty handily until they were taken down from inside by deranged mad-scientisting. Science was making a darned good showing for itself, really.
(Sorry; got a little ranty there. Ahem.)
Anyway, an alert populace could handle most of the run-of-the-mill threats themselves, leaving the rogue gods and whatnot to the Slayers, agents of the PTB, and other forces of Goodness. And even those guys could benefit from being able to call in the odd artillery strike or two.