Buffy TVS Reboot Confirmed

[Jayson1]

As others have pointed out, topical issues were heavily disguised as allegories and usually weren't explicitly called out. I agree the original show didn't delve deeply into social commentary but it doesn't mean the new one won't include such elements - the temptation must be there given recent history. The new show must have a different dynamic to distinguish itself from the old one and give itself some vitality. My guess might well turn out to be incorrect but that won't be the first time I've been wrong.

I agree. Important thing though is your still going to be seeing a show I suspect about teenagers so having them all see the modern world from that perspective. Also avoid the easy cliches. This show won't be the first show that tries to be socially relevant and they don't always work. I want more shows that try and subvert expections. I would make the watcher from the American South for example and have the big bad who starts the season off working with the heros's and you think she or he is noble and great. Someone might on the surface even be the kindest person around. Stuff like that.

Jason

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Also avoid the easy cliches...
I want more shows that try and subvert expections...
I would have the big bad who starts the season off working with the heros's and you think she or he is noble and great. Someone might on the surface even be the kindest person around.

...because that's never been done before...

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EvilAllAlong
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BigBadFriend
Of course, the worst kind of evil might be someone who is convinced in his own head that he is the good guy - General Talbot or Adolf Hitler.

 

[Tosk]

How about the main character is revealed to be a bad guy?

Oh, I know...at the end of season 1, it's revealed that we were in a continuation all along but someone changed reality again.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

Reboot: a fancy new word for remake. New cast, new continuity. See Battlestar Galactica.

Revival: old cast, old continuity. See the new X-Files or Will & Grace.

Granted, sloppy headline writers tend to use the words interchangeably, but they don't mean the same thing.

This is a reboot, so forget all that stuff about a thousand Slayers and all. That was the old continuity. This is a remake with a new Buffy, starting over from scratch. Like the new Charmed.

It just occurred to me that the right word for this one is: revamp.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

It just occurred to me that the right word for this one is: revamp.

And if you don't like it, is it a rebuff?

 

[JD]

I was looking through this week's comics and saw that the current Buffy finale miniseries involves time travel. I wonder if they might end up altering things to set up the new series. That could be a pretty good way to more or less keep them intact, but not force the new show to be completely consistent with them.