Who is the actress plays the vampire slayer...
In the very beginning of the movie. Set during medieval time. She doesn't have much screen time. Maybe 10 seconds.
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Kristy Swanson, the same character who plays Buffy. In this film, the slayer is explained to be the same girl reincarnated through generations.
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In this film, the slayer is explained to be the same girl reincarnated through generations.
Where does it say that? During the dream at the beginning it says "One slayer dies, the next is chosen". Unless I've missed a later scene that explains it any different, then it's the same on the movie as on the show... one slayer dies, the next is chosen (and the powers either awaken in or are transferred to the new slayer). Otherwise, it'd be strange that a fairly attractive white girl would have been a slave in Virgina.
Kristy is playing the slayer in the beginning though, as far as I know, just as Sutherland is playing the watcher. This is explained later in the film when Merick asks Buffy about her dreams, in order to prove he is telling her the truth and convince her to accept her birthright. Here's the conversation...
Merick- "Do you ever dream that you were someone else Buffy?"
Buffy- "Everybody does"
Merick- "No, someone in the past. Someone real. A Magyar peasant girl perhaps? An Indian princess? A slave?"
Buffy- "I was a slave"
Merick- "In Virginia."
Buffy- "I-- I don't know, there was like this big farm or something. There was this one where there were these knights. And I'm a---"
Merick- "A servant girl. A barmaid."
a few lines later
Buffy- "How do you know all this?"
Merick- "Because it is your birthright, and I am a part of it."
So the dream sequence at the beginning was sort of a sign to Buffy, and that's why she was dreaming that she was all of these people, and why Swanson and Sutherland were playing the characters.
EDIT: Merick's the one that is reborn every generation, and he is born each time with his knowledge intact and already knowing his mission. (It doesn't say, but I'd also assume he'd have to be "reborn" as an adult in some way... if he's the only watcher in that version then the world would have to go years with the current slayer (the one active when he dies) having no support or leadership, and without the next slayer (or several) knowing anything about who or what they are... leaving the world defenseless.)
"Hello everyone. I'm Amy's imaginary friend! But I came anyway." share
I'd just like to bring it to attention that there were indeed "white" slaves in colonial Virginia. According to that colony's laws, ANY child of at least one slave parent also became a slave, regardless of whether that person "looked black." Historians now strongly suspect, for example, that the Virginia-born Thomas Jefferson fathered red-haired and pale-skinned mixed-race children with his female slaves, and enslaved those children in turn.
What really confused me in your post, however, was what you said about Merrick. So....is Merrick immortal? Will he be coming back (in the movie's universe), despite having been killed by Lothos?