Buffy the Vampire Slayer

[Steel Icarus]

I couldn't watch it in case it's awful, or if it's great

Buffy been and gone

 

[Rebelda]

They're making the (shit) film into a series rather than remaking the series. Have I understood that right? Whedon has wanted to put that right for a long time afaik

 

[Glitter]

They're making the (shit) film into a series rather than remaking the series. Have I understood that right? Whedon has wanted to put that right for a long time afaik

Wasn’t the original Buffy the series of the shit film though?

 

[Chz]

The concept is able to be played several different ways. I withhold judgement until I know more. Certainly an attempt to recreate the series would not be met too warmly, but it doesn't have to be like that at all.

 

[PursuedByBears]

If it's not a film of the Fray comic book I'm not interested.

 

[stavros]

But the cast would be far too old to be school students now.

 

[Rebelda]

Wasn’t the original Buffy the series of the shit film though?

I thought the series picked up where the film finished. I have no idea, I've never seen it

 

[kabbes]

I thought the series picked up where the film finished. I have no idea, I've never seen it

It does exactly that. Buffy has had to move schools because of the events of the first film.

A new series might even be good, but it won’t be Buffy.

 

[Glitter]

I thought the series picked up where the film finished. I have no idea, I've never seen it

I started it. I didn’t get very far.

 

[kabbes]

I actually saw the film before the series. I saw it on VHS when my sister hired it from the video store. And now I have lost all the Millenials.

The series was still a twinkle in Whedon’s eye. You didn’t really get tv series spin offs back then, so it came as a surprise.

 

[iona]

I saw the film at some point in my teens, having grown up watching the TV series with no idea that there even was a film or how it related to the series.

It was awful

Not sure how I feel about a new series.

 

[scifisam]

Well, well

Buffy the Vampire Slayer to get TV reboot

NO

 

[fishfinger]

I saw the film at some point in my teens, having grown up watching the TV series with no idea that there even was a film or how it related to the series.

It was awful

Not sure how I feel about a new series.

If I'd seen the film first, there's no way I would have watched the series.

 

[kabbes]

If I'd seen the film first, there's no way I would have watched the series.

I wasn’t exactly excited by the prospect but you have to remember that there was shit-all on telly at the time and even less aimed at my demographic.

 

[Jon-of-arc]

Are they going to have a new actress playing Buffy? Or just a new lead, who is a slayer, but isn't called Buffy? Or a new slayer who is called Buffy, but is a different person from THE Buffy?

 

[The Octagon]

Buffy: TNG would be a better idea, scope for a new story and some cameos.

Rebooting is just pointless.

More interested in Whedon's just announced series with HBO The Nevers, be interested to see what he does with no network restrictions or studio edicts - Joss Whedon Sci-Fi Drama Ordered Straight to Series at HBO

 

[Steel Icarus]

Buffy: TNG would be a better idea, scope for a new story and some cameos.

Rebooting is just pointless.

Is right.

 

[krtek a houby]

Buffy: TNG would be a better idea, scope for a new story and some cameos.

Rebooting is just pointless.

More interested in Whedon's just announced series with HBO The Nevers, be interested to see what he does with no network restrictions or studio edicts - Joss Whedon Sci-Fi Drama Ordered Straight to Series at HBO

Good point. There's been slayers throught history, so a new one would make more sense.

 

[Rebelda]

Except future slayers are every potential (every girl who might be a slayer will be etc), and we all remember how appalling potentials are. I like the idea of past slayers with lots of sexy Spike cameos

 

[scifisam]

Except future slayers are every potential (every girl who might be a slayer will be etc), and we all remember how appalling potentials are. I like the idea of past slayers with lots of sexy Spike cameos

They could do a whole mini-series of them, like when they showed Principal Wood's mum kicking arse in a kick-arse afro.

 

[kabbes]

The next generation has tonnes of slayers at once. You can do that series but it wouldn’t be “the vampire slayer”

 

[scifisam]

The next generation has tonnes of slayers at once. You can do that series but it wouldn’t be “the vampire slayer”

You could though. Someone - Giles or grown-up Willow or someone new - does some magic to revert the slayer power back to one person, or possibly a group of people. They do this because they've seen the havoc the hundreds of slayers thing causes (this is somewhat addressed in the couple of "season whatever" graphic novels I've read).

It would certainly work a lot better than an actual reboot.

 

[CNT36]

You could though. Someone - Giles or grown-up Willow or someone new - does some magic to revert the slayer power back to one person, or possibly a group of people. They do this because they've seen the havoc the hundreds of slayers thing causes (this is somewhat addressed in the couple of "season whatever" graphic novels I've read).

It would certainly work a lot better than an actual reboot.

Opening voiceover "A wizard did it". Or play into it with the first big bad who has wiped out all the other potentials leaving just one who has been hidden from the world by her hyper protective dad who named her after a girl he once knew. When they're discovered he's sliced up and she's sent to live with her estranged mother/ adoptive parents and has to deal with being a slayer and being thrown into a load of mean girls shit she isn't prepared for. No need for a full fucking reboot.

 

[scifisam]

Opening voiceover "A wizard did it". Or play into it with the first big bad who has wiped out all the other potentials leaving just one who has been hidden from the world by her hyper protective dad who named her after a girl he once knew. When they're discovered he's sliced up and she's sent to live with her estranged mother/ adoptive parents and has to deal with being a slayer and being thrown into a load of mean girls shit she isn't prepared for. No need for a full fucking reboot.

ANYTHING other than a reboot.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Not against all remakes,some can outdo the original - BSG, for example but Buffy is a hard one to top...

Difference is the original BSG was bobbins.

 

[Reno]

It’s a sequel rather than a remake, which could be pretty cool and leaves the door open for original characters to return.

It looks like the Buffy revival will focus on a new Slayer

 

[scifisam]

It’s a sequel rather than a remake, which could be pretty cool and leaves the door open for original characters to return.

It looks like the Buffy revival will focus on a new Slayer

It would be nice if they'd directly say it's not a reboot, though. I'd happily give a sequel a try.

 

[kabbes]

I'd probably at least give a sequel or prequel a go but I would definitely not watch a reboot. Sacrilege.

 

[Reno]

It would be nice if they'd directly say it's not a reboot, though. I'd happily give a sequel a try.

Reboot is just the catch-all marketing term now for selling something old as new again.

 

[kittyP]

Anthony Head is in The Archers at the moment