That troll hammer...

[deird1]

I've seen a few comments recently on Buffy picking up Olaf's hammer - and how the fact that she could so easily when Spike couldn't lift it shows just how much stronger Buffy is than the average vampire.

Which I'm finding odd, because I always assumed it was because the hammer is a mystical item. So Buffy, as the Slayer, has special picking-up-hammer powers that are denied to Spike.

...am I completely alone in this assumption? Does everyone else in the whole world take it as Buffy being ridiculously strong compared to Spike?



(Yes, she's stronger than him. But not by that much...)

Comments

[rahirah]

IIRC at one point someone (one of the writers? Espenson, maybe?) claimed that there was supposed to be something in one of the episodes about the hammer only being usable by the person who defeated the previous owner, but it got cut or forgotten somehow. And I can't remember exactly where I read that, so take it with a grain of salt.