[ SECRET POST #4107 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4107 ⌋

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[fscom]

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[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I always assumed that sooner or later the reboot/late-sequel craze would get to Buffy, and I'd rather it be a reboot. If it's good then yay, new awesomeness. If it's terrible, we can laugh at it and rewatch the original without it getting 'tainted' by the new one.

[(Anonymous)]

X-Files and Buffy are similar in that there's enough bad shit within each franchise that adding further bad shit to the franchise isn't really going to compromise anything. So it's low-risk: if the remake is bad, what's the risk?

On the other hand: For both shows, a lot of the appeal for me is connected to the aesthetic sensibility that they had, a lot of which has to do with when both shows were made and how they were filled. And remakes and reboots usually abandon those aspects of the thing that they're remaking in favor of just making a completely new thing with the same premise. And most new things I don't like, just by percentages, and it'd be more interesting to try something in a style that's different from everything else going on right now, instead of making a version of Buffy that looks like everything else in 2018.

In conclusion, reboots of popular genre TV series are a land of many contrasts.

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[silverr]

Buffy is one of my absolute favorite shows (I've rewatched the entire series many many times) and I absolutely would not want a reboot. I'm perfectly content with the comics, tyvm.

A spinoff series would be okay, though. Ripper? Definitely, if they can cast the right people for Giles and Ethan. The Adventures of Darla and Angelus and Spike and Dru in the late 1800s? Bring it. A post-apocalyptic Fray running around Scything? I'm more than ready.

[(Anonymous)]

Totally. Lately genre fiction has been obsessed with expanded universes, even for series and franchises that don't lend themselves to that kind of world building. Buffy has always been set up for a big expanded universe. They could do an anthology series about different slayers as well as the other things you suggested.

[(Anonymous)]

Just came to say I've always been totally amazed that no one pitched a "past Slayers" show. Slayer in the Victorian Era, Slayer in the Civil War, Slayer in the Stone Age - there's so much potential there just waiting to be mined.

Heck, even in the original show itself, I was surprised they didn't explore past Slayers more deeply. We never even found out Buffy's direct predecessor.

[wheresmycat]

I actually have a couple of books from years ago that are short story collections about past slayers. Its done by multiple writers so some of the stories are stronger/better than others (and I think I stopped buying them because one of them was just so unrelentingly depressing) but they really explore a lot of different settings and time periods and was pretty culturally diverse from what I remember. 'Tales of the Slayer (volumes 1, 2, etc)' I think? Not a show but it might help fill that past Slayers need a bit for you.

[lil_lost_kitten]

Aw yeah, the 'Tales of the Slayer' series. Covered Slayers from antiquity right up until modern times (like the Slayer who crossed paths with Spike in the 70s... I think we got a bit more info on her backstory in one of them). I loved reading those. *has a looksie*... and it appears there were 4 volumes in total! Might have to track them down again myself.