SMG to star in Buffy sequel series from Chloé Zhao

[Kamen Rider Blade]

I wonder How are they going to address what happened in Angel in this?

David Boreanaz looks like a proper 56 y/o, how are you going to explain a supposedly "Immortal" vampire looking like a 56 y/o man?

I doubt they're going to waste $$ on Deep Faking him to look like young David.

James Marster is 62 y/o, there's no faking his youthful looks either.

Are they going to write them off?

 

[FreezeC77]

We were too used to 24 yo Tom Welling playing 15 yo CK in Smallville, so yes, seeing an actual 15 yo playing a teenager is shocking indeed LOL.
Hopefully this Buffy show is fast tracked into production, I hope the new vampires are actually scary this time!

Stranger Things was pretty good for casting its young teens. The older teens like Jonathan and Nancy were played by actors in their early 20s.

But Will/Mike/Lucas/Dustin/11 were all supposed to be around like 12 or 13 and I think all the actors were like +/- 2 years of that age.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

I'll never understand why some journalists have seem to have such a hard time just reporting what people say in these kind of situations, and feel they have to put their twist it like that.

The lack of basic "Journalistic Ethics" in modern media is very problematic.

There needs to be "Punishment", "Blow Back", & "Severe Consequences" for these "Dirty Journalists" who can't do a simple thing as repeat the interviewee's statement "Word for Word".

If they can't get that their job "Isn't to Editorialize, Summarize, or Spin false naratives", then there should be "Real Consequences" for them.

That includes either:
- Fines
- Bans from Journalism including being black listed.
- Jail Time if they keep defying and doing a horrible job by misrepresenting the interviewee.

 

[oktay]

David Boreanaz looks like a proper 56 y/o, how are you going to explain a supposedly "Immortal" vampire looking like a 56 y/o man?

I doubt they're going to waste $$ on Deep Faking him to look like young David.

James Marster is 62 y/o, there's no faking his youthful looks either.

Are they going to write them off?

They could write a scenario where the vampire's skin starts to rot

 

[FreezeC77]

David Boreanaz looks like a proper 56 y/o, how are you going to explain a supposedly "Immortal" vampire looking like a 56 y/o man?

I doubt they're going to waste $$ on Deep Faking him to look like young David.

James Marster is 62 y/o, there's no faking his youthful looks either.

Are they going to write them off?

In terms of Angel. Wasn't the prophecy that a vampire with a soul would save the world and as a consequence be able to gain a human lifespan?

I'm not sure how you could apply that to both Spike and Angel to get both back though.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

They could write a scenario where the vampire's skin starts to rot

That would be non-sense.

It would be easier to make them "Human" and take away their Vampire Nature long time ago so they properly aged.

In terms of Angel. Wasn't the prophecy that a vampire with a soul would save the word and as a consequence be able to gain a human lifespan?

I'm not sure how you could apply that to both Spike and Angel to get both back though.

It's been way too long since I saw the endings for both shows.

That would be nice if they gained some human aspects and not just be "Immortal (Eternal Youth, not Indestructability)".

Having them be "Older Human-Vampire Hybrids" due to having a Soul could be interesting.

 

[JD]

It was one of the best Star Wars shows they've done. Why wouldn't we want more? The "objective" of a show is not merely to resolve its plot; the plot is just a vehicle to tell stories about the characters and their world. If one plot is resolved, you can come up with more plots that deepen the exploration of those things.

Besides, I disagree that even the plot was completely resolved. Season 1 ended abruptly, without any denouement, so there were enough dangling threads that I'd be surprised if they didn't have plans for a continuation.

Yeah, plenty of shows have resolved introduced a new "objective" every season. I don't see any reason why the same cast couldn't find themselves getting pulled into more adventures after the end of season 1.

 

[Christopher]

David Boreanaz looks like a proper 56 y/o, how are you going to explain a supposedly "Immortal" vampire looking like a 56 y/o man?

I don't think thribs was talking about whether Angel the person would appear in the show, but about whether the events of Angel the TV series would be acknowledged.

What I'm wondering is whether the post-finale Buffy comics will still be considered canonical, although "canonical" tie-in sequels usually get decanonized when a new TV series or movie comes along.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

I don't think thribs was talking about whether Angel the person would appear in the show, but about whether the events of Angel the TV series would be acknowledged.

What I'm wondering is whether the post-finale Buffy comics will still be considered canonical, although "canonical" tie-in sequels usually get decanonized when a new TV series or movie comes along.

I think they'll split the Post Buffy/Angel TV series Comic Books/Novels into their own timeline.

It's cleaner & easier that way, this way Chloe Zhao can do whatever she wants and not be beholden to somebody else's writing & she can work with a relatively clean slate.

 

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[JD]

I don't think thribs was talking about whether Angel the person would appear in the show, but about whether the events of Angel the TV series would be acknowledged.

What I'm wondering is whether the post-finale Buffy comics will still be considered canonical, although "canonical" tie-in sequels usually get decanonized when a new TV series or movie comes along.

The only reason I could maybe see them using them is because they're so far back, that they would be a nice easy way have a bit more backstory that fills in the gaps. Unless of course there's something that contradicts whatever Chloe Zhao is planning, obviously then they'll ignore them completely.

 

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Are Zoom calls recorded in 360P?
Such a great moment of a young star discovering her biggest break by a legend in the Buffyverse ruined completely by early 2000s pixels.

 

[The Realist]

The only reason I could maybe see them using them is because they're so far back, that they would be a nice easy way have a bit more backstory that fills in the gaps. Unless of course there's something that contradicts whatever Chloe Zhao is planning, obviously then they'll ignore them completely.

I never take claims that licensed adaptations of TV shows or films to another medium (comics, novels, whatever) are canonical seriously, whether or not there’s ever another filmed production to contradict them — which they almost always do, because the people who make the shows and movies probably don’t even read the adaptations, much less feel beholden to them. As far as I’m concerned, calling such ancillary material canon is just marketing. (Which is not to say it can’t be entertaining, of course.)

For example, AFAIC, there is no actual “Smallville Season 11.” The only follow-up to the TV series that counts in my book is the filmed coda provided by the Arrowverse’s “Crisis on Infinite Earths.”

 

[Christopher]

I never take claims that licensed adaptations of TV shows or films to another medium (comics, novels, whatever) are canonical seriously, whether or not there’s ever another filmed production to contradict them — which they almost always do, because the people who make the shows and movies probably don’t even read the adaptations, much less feel beholden to them. As far as I’m concerned, calling such ancillary material canon is just marketing. (Which is not to say it can’t be entertaining, of course.)

That's true, but what's also true is that even canon is subject to being overwritten by later canon. Look at movie series like Terminator or Highlander or Halloween where entire sequels have been ignored or erased by later sequels. Or how the first Star Wars: Clone Wars animated series was considered canonical until the later The Clone Wars replaced it.

So just because a tie-in is subject to being overwritten doesn't necessarily mean it isn't canonical at the time. It just means that canon is not as immutable as fans tend to assume. Sometimes a creator will fully intend something to be canonical when it comes out, but will later change their mind.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

to be canonical when it comes out, but will later change their mind.

Like how George Lucas changes "Han Shot Greedo first" to "Han Shot Greedo after Greedo shoots at him & misses"?

 

[Christopher]

Like how George Lucas changes "Han Shot Greedo" first to "Han Shot Greedo after Greedo shoots at him & misses"?

That's one example. Novelists often revise their novels when they're reprinted, often to the point of rewriting them significantly. I've done it myself, with my novel Arachne's Crime expanding and reworking my first published story and replacing it in the canon of my main fictional universe.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

That's one example. Novelists often revise their novels when they're reprinted, often to the point of rewriting them significantly. I've done it myself, with my novel Arachne's Crime expanding and reworking my first published story and replacing it in the canon of my main fictional universe.

Do you at least put in "Revision #" at the beginning of the Novel to let users know that you changed it from it's original version?

 

[Set Harth]

They could write a scenario where the vampire's skin starts to rot

adamantium poisoning

 

[Christopher]

Do you at least put in "Revision #" at the beginning of the Novel to let users know that you changed it from it's original version?

The novel is much longer than the original novelette and has a different title, so there's little chance of confusion. And there's an afterword explaining how and why I reworked it.

As for authors who've revised their novels, sometimes you have to tell them apart by publication year, though sometimes they specify that they're different. For instance, David Gerrold (who's rewritten many of his novels) subtitled his rewrite of When HARLIE Was One as Release 2.0, and though his expansion of Yesterday's Children was originally just called Yesterday's Children, he later retitlted it Starhunt. When Arthur C. Clarke massively rewrote his early novel Against the Fall of Night, he retitled it The City and the Stars, but it's so different that it can almost be considered a distinct story anyway.

 

[Turtletrekker]

Like how George Lucas changes "Han Shot Greedo" first to "Han Shot Greedo after Greedo shoots at him & misses"?

See also: JRR Tolkien and The Hobbit.