SMG to star in Buffy sequel series from Chloé Zhao
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If it works out, I can predict that it will last between 30 and 70 episodes, so it will last between 3 and 6 and 7 seasons.I would have been excited about this years ago but now with streaming mini series the norm and most shows last 20-40 episodes total. Now I'm just Meh on it.....
There's a possible built-in explanation anyway, in that there are vampires in the Buffy-verse who are so old their appearance changes, like the Master in Buffy S1. Granted, Angel and Spike won't be old enough to have their appearances change that drastically, but still it's not completely preposterous to think there'd be a point when they're still human looking where'd they have visibly aged compared to when they were first turned into a vampire.
Though I haven't seen James Marsters recently, based on SEAL Team I'd say David Boreanaz could still pass as immortal vampire, if you squint a little. I mean, hell, the guy's in his fifties and was playing an active duty Navy SEAL up until last year. Most actual SEALs tend to retire or are promoted out of the field in their late thirties or early forties.
Or in olden day terms ...1 to barely 3 seasons. I have a feeling though it would go 30 episodes tops. Unless it's so good it becomes an"water cooler show" which is pretty rare today but still happens.
Robin Wood is a old existing character from Season 7 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series.
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If it works and will last for 3 seasons, I hope they plan it that way from the beginning and end it in the 3rd season.
They will simply ignore the comics.
No. I would not want to see either Marsters or Boreanaz come back as vampires. That ship sailed a long time ago. I guess they could come back as other characters or both somehow got turned back into humans. But my favorite theory is they both perished in that alley. Yes I don't consider the lousy comics canon at all.
Well, I doubt this show will either.
I would be astonished if the series required any knowledge of what has come before beyond the most basic of details. It sounds like Buffy will be taking the Giles role in the series, so it's going to be about the new Slayer and her friends rather than dangling plot points from 25 years ago.
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That's what the first season will be about. The second season will be a rather sloppy storyline in which the only real purpose is to write out all the new characters introduced in the first season with the exception of the one who has a contract requiring them to stay, in order to pave the way for the third and final season which will have an even sloppier story to serve as the fanwank and memberberry engorged reunion for the Buffy cast.
I didn’t see Terry Matalas mentioned in the articleThat's what the first season will be about. The second season will be a rather sloppy storyline in which the only real purpose is to write out all the new characters introduced in the first season with the exception of the one who has a contract requiring them to stay, in order to pave the way for the third and final season which will have an even sloppier story to serve as the fanwank and memberberry engorged reunion for the Buffy cast.
The fucking hubris!That's what the first season will be about. The second season will be a rather sloppy storyline in which the only real purpose is to write out all the new characters introduced in the first season with the exception of the one who has a contract requiring them to stay, in order to pave the way for the third and final season which will have an even sloppier story to serve as the fanwank and memberberry engorged reunion for the Buffy cast.
At first I thought it was an odd leap to compare a Buffy revival to Picard, but I guess there aren't that many examples of a decades-later revival series bringing back the original star. Gene Barry's Burke's Law comes to mind, but even the revival of that was decades ago now, as were the Perry Mason revival movies in the '90s. Doctor Who doesn't quite count, since it was the same character but not the same actor. So what else is there? I guess the Frasier revival would be one.
Nomadland won Best Picture and Best Director, regardless of who funded it.
And Whedon is hardly the only person in the world who can write and direct.
The Eternals was a very good movie, but it was wrongly buried.
Nomadland, the famed science fiction and fantasy movie.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer the famed science fiction tv show.
Hell, even the fantasy part was never really the point of BtVS.
And do you have any idea how many directors have been hugely successful after being given a job to do something they were 'the wrong person' for on paper? Should Christopher Nolan not have been allowed to make Batman Begins because he'd never done anything like it before? What about the Russo Brothers making Avengers movies after coming up through tv sitcoms?
