Of course, it pays not to concentrate too hard on making all this make sense. However, I am getting the feeling that if the rest of the slayers no longer have power, Whedon will find some way to give it back to them. Either now, or in the future-- my presumption is that Willow's death in the Fray arc released magic that will call all the potentials once again, just in Fray's time period.
BTW, I had to go look up this issue for the specific dialog, but I remembered some possible foreshadowing of this back in the Fray arc. From earlier on in issue #19--
Fray: You've been spinning us all.
Willow: Yes, well, I'm dark that way.
Fray: To what end?
Willow: Death, of course.
Fray: Whose?
Willow: (doesn't answer Fray's question) You see what I've seen, you come and go as I have... you realize the most important thing about death isn't who dies... it's who kills them.
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BTW, I had to go look up this issue for the specific dialog, but I remembered some possible foreshadowing of this back in the Fray arc. From earlier on in issue #19--
Fray: You've been spinning us all.
Willow: Yes, well, I'm dark that way.
Fray: To what end?
Willow: Death, of course.
Fray: Whose?
Willow: (doesn't answer Fray's question) You see what I've seen, you come and go as I have... you realize the most important thing about death isn't who dies... it's who kills them.
( - continued - )