Buffy re-boot....

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irocfan

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Gavia

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92 months

Saturday 21st July 2018
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If they could do it in the style of Cobra Kai / The Karate Kid then it could be brilliant. Sadly, it’ll probably just be another reboot with the same characters as teenagers that’s nowhere near good enough

irocfan

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Saturday 21st July 2018
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the saving grace is that Joss Whedon is said to be attached

putonghua73

615 posts

129 months

Saturday 21st July 2018
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My hear sank when I read the BBC article, especially when the raison d'etre is for ethnic diversity.

I would be fine if as another poster has stated, they explored a different direction i.e. Buffy & the Gang as adults, w/ Buffy more wiser, sadder, and jaded. Not exactly a barrel of laughs.

In terms of ethnic diversity of the original series, we had Kendra. Oh. Oh ..., yeah. Kendra. She was cringe worthy to watch back then let alone re-watching 2 decades later.

If the whole ethnic diversity thing is driving the reboot, then no. Leave the series alone and do something different and new with ethnic diversity. If on the other hand, there is the opportunity to explore a different direction, then maybe, although I doubt if I fall into the target audience.

Goddamnit, stop the remakes / reboots of films or series that do not need to be remade! Whoever keeps signing off on remakes needs to be horse-whipped within an inch of their lives.

P.s. I have series 1-5 on DVD, and like a great many series of the time e.g. Babylon 5, the recording has not aged well in terms of murkiness, colour saturation, etc.

Edited by putonghua73 on Saturday 21st July 17:44

anonymous-user

55 months

Saturday 21st July 2018
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Maybe it will be an all-male cast.... ah no that way around would be sexist wouldn't it...hehe

Halb

53,012 posts

184 months

Saturday 21st July 2018
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irocfan said:
the saving grace is that Joss Whedon is said to be attached
he seems to have burnt bridges in filmland. biggrin

g3org3y

20,639 posts

192 months

Sunday 22nd July 2018
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Another reboot with added diversity?

Are the people behind all these initiatives so devoid of original ideas? There seems to be a whole industry based on rehashing old (good) ideas, making them dogst and them complaining when audience doesn't like them. The audience is then blamed for their dislike of the new (crap) content and various -ists and -isms are used against them.

Anyone seen the preview images from the new She-Ra reboot?



Edited by g3org3y on Sunday 22 July 07:49

grumbledoak

31,545 posts

234 months

Sunday 22nd July 2018
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g3org3y said:
Are the people behind all these initiatives so devoid of original ideas?
I think the idea is to take any successful and popular white role model, and fk it up. They've run out of men, so it's on to the women.

Tony Starks

2,107 posts

213 months

Sunday 22nd July 2018
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g3org3y said:
Another reboot with added diversity?

Are the people behind all these initiatives so devoid of original ideas? There seems to be a whole industry based on rehashing old (good) ideas, making them dogst and them complaining when audience doesn't like them. The audience is then blamed for their dislike of the new (crap) content and various -ists and -isms are used against them.

Anyone seen the preview images from the new She-Ra reboot?



Edited by g3org3y on Sunday 22 July 07:49
Thats a man, baby!

irocfan

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Monday 23rd July 2018
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Tony Starks said:
g3org3y said:
Another reboot with added diversity?

Are the people behind all these initiatives so devoid of original ideas? There seems to be a whole industry based on rehashing old (good) ideas, making them dogst and them complaining when audience doesn't like them. The audience is then blamed for their dislike of the new (crap) content and various -ists and -isms are used against them.

Anyone seen the preview images from the new She-Ra reboot?



Edited by g3org3y on Sunday 22 July 07:49
Thats a man, baby!
I thought it was an Aryan Nation poster!

Halb

53,012 posts

184 months

Monday 23rd July 2018
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irocfan said:
I thought it was an Aryan Nation poster!
Britain First.

FourWheelDrift

88,554 posts

285 months

Monday 23rd July 2018
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Dear Mr Whedon.

Whilst I understand rebooting old shows with diversity or gender swapping is the current fashion I would like to bring to your attention another more important matter that needs your immediate action.

Quit the Buffy reboot bks and give us Series 2 of Firefly.

yours
The World

Ps. please do not genderblend it.

Halb

53,012 posts

184 months

Monday 23rd July 2018
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And Dolhouse s3

irocfan

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Monday 23rd July 2018
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and a new season of Angel (which IIRC did have a mix of gender, race. LGBTQCisnonnormative+-@*&%)

Moonhawk

10,730 posts

220 months

Monday 23rd July 2018
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Surely the Fresh Prince is ripe for an SJW reboot. The cast of that show were hardly ‘diverse’.

wjb

5,100 posts

132 months

Monday 23rd July 2018
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For those who don't want a reboot of buffy, (for whatever reason) couldn't they just not watch it?

Worked for me first time around.

Russian Troll Bot

24,990 posts

228 months

Monday 23rd July 2018
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Tony Starks said:
g3org3y said:
Another reboot with added diversity?

Are the people behind all these initiatives so devoid of original ideas? There seems to be a whole industry based on rehashing old (good) ideas, making them dogst and them complaining when audience doesn't like them. The audience is then blamed for their dislike of the new (crap) content and various -ists and -isms are used against them.

Anyone seen the preview images from the new She-Ra reboot?



Edited by g3org3y on Sunday 22 July 07:49
Thats a man, baby!
Looks more like a 12 year old boy

irocfan

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Monday 23rd July 2018
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Moonhawk said:
Surely the Fresh Prince is ripe for an SJW reboot. The cast of that show were hardly ‘diverse’.
well Charmed is also getting a re-boot to accommodate a warlock as one of the central characters.... oh wait

Moonhawk

10,730 posts

220 months

Monday 23rd July 2018
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Russian Troll Bot said:
Looks more like a 12 year old boy
Indeed, very androgynous. Is the female form becoming un-pc now too.

Lucas Ayde

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169 months

Monday 23rd July 2018
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Moonhawk said:
Indeed, very androgynous. Is the female form becoming un-pc now too.
[SJW vocal-fry voice]: "It's so hateful and bigoted to assign binary genders - only trans or gender fluid will do."