Buffy Reboot Cancelled

[Stalker0]

"If"? The thing i literally explicitly challenged you on?

Yes, of which I answered assuming that was the case.

And if your point was that different groups are saying the two different things, then your point has none, and whats more you went out of your way to use "everyone".

I reiterated my point for clarity in the last post. My apologies the use of the word everyone caused such a confusion for you.

 

[Autumnal]

That is not dead which can eternal lie.

Buffy is the once and future queen. She will return when the time is right. Or maybe that's Xena. IDK.

As if Buffy isn’t a reincarnation of Xena.

 

[UngainlyTitan]

That is not dead which can eternal lie.

Buffy is the once and future queen. She will return when the time is right. Or maybe that's Xena. IDK.

I would watch a Buffy - Xena crossover.

 

[wicked cool]

I think at some point it become 2 late for reboots when you involve old cast (hard to explain vampires that aged)

 

[dbolack]

As if Buffy isn’t a reincarnation of Xena.

Headcannon accepted.

 

[GrimCo]

Can they leave beloved franchises alone? While i was always more fan of Angel than Buffy, it was still one of the shows i grew up and loved.

I'm glad they cancelled it. We don't need He Man Revelations with titular character being barley present on screen. Full blown reboot with complete new cast, new actress playing Buffy would be better. That or plain sequel with now older Buffy and Scooby gang tackling new themes. Original Buffy was about growing up, new one could be about growing old.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

That or plain sequel with now older Buffy and Scooby gang tackling new themes. Original Buffy was about growing up, new one could be about growing old.

It sounds like, from Gellar interviews, that this is the way the pilot and the new show was evolving. Of course, to double down on this theme, the way to do it would be for her own daughter to suddenly inherit Slayer powers, rather than her teaming up with some new kid back in Sunnydale.

And she probably shouldn't be living halfway across the country, unless she's in Cleveland, which we also know has a major hellmouth.

 

[Reef]

Can they leave beloved franchises alone? While i was always more fan of Angel than Buffy, it was still one of the shows i grew up and loved.

I'm glad they cancelled it. We don't need He Man Revelations with titular character being barley present on screen. Full blown reboot with complete new cast, new actress playing Buffy would be better. That or plain sequel with now older Buffy and Scooby gang tackling new themes. Original Buffy was about growing up, new one could be about growing old.

I’m the complete opposite (other than the love for the original): if we have to go back to the well, I’d much rather have a continuing story rather than a reboot. It’s been done, I don’t want to see it all over again with new actors.

Tell me the story of a new Slayer. If Buffy is there in a new role as a mentor, even better. But I’ve seen Buffy’s high school years already.

I absolutely am tired of reheated nostalgia. But sometimes it can work. And this at least sounded promising, listening to SMG talk about it. I was willing to give it a chance.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Full blown reboot with complete new cast, new actress playing Buffy would be better.

That'd be the worst possible scenario I'd suggest, and also the most likely to go wrong.

That or plain sequel with now older Buffy and Scooby gang tackling new themes. Original Buffy was about growing up, new one could be about growing old.

Tell me the story of a new Slayer. If Buffy is there in a new role as a mentor, even better.

I think the real solution is obvious as hell and I've pointed it out a few times.

You copy Cobra Kai's setup.

You get to do both, and people love you for it. Buffy was always a show in the same general tonal strike-zone as the Karate Kid movies anyway, so I think it makes a lot of sense. And I know it'll upset people, but in five years, we'll be as far from Buffy S1E1 as we were from Karate Kid 1 when Cobra Kai started. So it's not like we have a got a bunch of aging nostalgia-havers.

Further, younger people are STILL TO THIS DAY newly watching the original Buffy and Angel! People in their 20s and 30s who were small kids or not even born in 1997 when Buffy started are still watching it.

So we really do kind of have the same sort of situation - you bring back as much of the older cast as you can (it doesn't really matter if the characters died, this is Buffy, she herself has outright died what, at least twice, maybe more times?), and you have them training a new younger cast. This seems to be somewhat close to what they were planning to do but I think you want more of a Cobra Kai-ish dual strand approach.

 

[GrimCo]

Nomen est omen. If you call your show Buffy the vampire slayer, people expect Buffy as main character that kicks ass and slays vampires. Or what ever else, but show called Buffy needs main character named Buffy around which story revolves.

They didn't name show Karate Kid the show, they named it Cobra Kai. With that name, they subverted audience expectations and also told that it's not about (only) Daniel any more. Also, from the start, with teasers and trailers, they were open with show being about "other guy".

Reason why people hated Masters of the Universe: Revelations is because they promised He Man and then killed him off in first episode and switched to Teela.