Buffy Reboot Cancelled

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[Gradine]

 

[nyvinter]

I, too, blame everything I don't like about Star Wars for cancelling the Buffy reboot. I'm pretty sure Kathleen Kennedy is also responsible for my phone not charging last night.

Yeah, I think it has a far better analogy with Odyssey 5. At the time it had the biggest viewers on Showtime but they cancelled it after one season because they company CEO wanted to "move away from scifi."

Now Buffy reboot didn't even get that, but the anti-science fiction bit is there.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Since Cargo Cult is used so often in this post, can I get an understanding of what that term means to you? I have seen definitions online but they don't quite fit what the context your using that in.

Cargo cult is when you try imitate something without actually understanding that thing in the hopes of bringing success/reward, essentially. In the context of Star Wars it would mean using tropes, characters, imagery, music etc that imitated Star Wars but without quite getting why those were beloved to audiences or why they worked. TFA is to me an example of this, whereas the Andor is zero cargo cult. TLJ actively avoids cargo cult too, for better or worse. I wouldn't say TFA was as bad as it gets though - Abrams at least half-grasps some of what makes SW good, whereas in Super 8 he showed he profoundly didn't get what made '80s kids movies great. With TROS it's harder to work out what happened, because it's so clumsy and messy it's not even clear if Abrams was trying to imitate stuff and it's more like it's just doing cheap references to make the audience clap like seals (the audience did not clap like seals because the cheap references mostly sucked).