Buffy re-boot....
Discussion
My initial reaction on hearing they planned a reboot was ‘noooooo’. However, reading this thread has made me question my own negativity.
I thought back to the ’80s, which I think of as ‘my decade’, when I was enjoying The Thing, Twilight Zone and Star Trek TNG. All of them re-boots. I enjoyed all of these without worrying about the lack of original ideas in Hollywood. Stuff made 2 or 3 decades previously was ‘old’ and I wanted them ‘new’, in colour, with proper special effects.
It’s obvious that I was a shallow youth who didn’t know any better. But that’s the point. We might have a rose-tinted reverence for these old films and TV shows, but they made were before most of the current target audience was born. The yoof are happy to see the old shows remade for them, rather than watching the stuff their dad likes. And if they like their sci-fi and fantasy with a SJW* veneer, then so be it.
* I despise that term, but that’s for another discussion.
I thought back to the ’80s, which I think of as ‘my decade’, when I was enjoying The Thing, Twilight Zone and Star Trek TNG. All of them re-boots. I enjoyed all of these without worrying about the lack of original ideas in Hollywood. Stuff made 2 or 3 decades previously was ‘old’ and I wanted them ‘new’, in colour, with proper special effects.
It’s obvious that I was a shallow youth who didn’t know any better. But that’s the point. We might have a rose-tinted reverence for these old films and TV shows, but they made were before most of the current target audience was born. The yoof are happy to see the old shows remade for them, rather than watching the stuff their dad likes. And if they like their sci-fi and fantasy with a SJW* veneer, then so be it.
* I despise that term, but that’s for another discussion.
SpudLink said:
My initial reaction on hearing they planned a reboot was ‘noooooo’. However, reading this thread has made me question my own negativity.
I thought back to the ’80s, which I think of as ‘my decade’, when I was enjoying The Thing, Twilight Zone and Star Trek TNG. All of them re-boots. I enjoyed all of these without worrying about the lack of original ideas in Hollywood. Stuff made 2 or 3 decades previously was ‘old’ and I wanted them ‘new’, in colour, with proper special effects.
I kinda see where you're at here BUT:I thought back to the ’80s, which I think of as ‘my decade’, when I was enjoying The Thing, Twilight Zone and Star Trek TNG. All of them re-boots. I enjoyed all of these without worrying about the lack of original ideas in Hollywood. Stuff made 2 or 3 decades previously was ‘old’ and I wanted them ‘new’, in colour, with proper special effects.
ST:TNG - isn't really a remake, it is (literally) 'the next generation' where what has gone before is acknowledged and referred to
The Thing - is a proper sequel, they used footage from the original film in the Carpenter version
Twilight Zone - again just continuation of
FourWheelDrift said:
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 b
ks and give us Series 2 of Firefly.
yours
The World
Ps. please do not genderblend it.
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 b
ks and give us Series 2 of Firefly.yours
The World
Ps. please do not genderblend it.
Already done it
irocfan said:
SlimJim16v said:
Just read that it may be a sequel, rather than a reboot. Much better if true.
https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-new-buffy-showrunner-addresses-reboot-concerns-its-1827894455From what I remember all ‘potential’ slayers in the world were empowered at the end of season 7. So it could be set in a world where many superpowered women have been around for over a decade. That gives them the opportunity to do something different from ‘chosen one fighting the demon hordes alone’. Still plenty of scope for the positive teenage girl role model stuff which is the core of the show, but for the millennial generation.
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