Who was that freakish old lady?
Look, we thought this one was rather clear. There were the mean shadow men and then there were the nice old ladies. The old ladies lived in this time zone, unlike the shadow men who lived in another plane of existence’s time zone. Or something like that, truth be told we were kind of distracted by Buffy’s boots and skirt at the time. So the mean shadow men tied a girl to the earth and demonized her, and the nice old ladies watched. The nice old ladies continued to assist the successive Slayers by watching. And watching some more. Eventually this group of nice old ladies that liked to watch got bored with this, moved to Sunnydale and forged the old Space Scythe, which was used to destroy the last true demon, then buried it in a bunch of rock underneath their pagan hall while they retired to their unobtrusive pyramid crypt in the middle of a Sunnydale cemetery. There they hung out and eventually died off, leaving the freakish old lady to talk to herself and await the Slayer’s arrival to
