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So apparently there's going to be a Buffy reboot?
I feel like I may have chatted about a hypothetical reboot in the past and said 'nah, it's too soon', so I hope this doesn't make me a hypocrite (let's say my thoughts have been recontextualised by S8 or something), but I'm pretty much up for it. It's a shame it'll only be Buffy's character (and if I were running it I'd be on the phone to Joss night and day trying to convince him to let some of the other characters play), but, you know, it's just a film. The original series will stay in one piece. If it's crap then we can mock it and if it's good/makes a lot of money then Joss can start chasing its shirttails.
I mean, I can be kind of negative about Buffy-related things - the comics, the tie-in novels... But at the same time, I've read a lot of fic, some of it more 'IC' than others (and it feels like this was much less of an issue in the olden days); I used to read AH/random AUs before I got bored of the tropes - I've written AUs myself. I love Wishverse!Buffy and it can hardly be said that she's immediately recognisable (out of context) as being the same as Buffyverse!Buffy (apart from looking like SMG). I can be entertained by YouTube videos of people playing through Chaos Bleeds and random Australian fanfilms (which, boo, seems to have been taken down).
In a choice between Randomer!Buffy film and no Buffy film, I'd rather they give it a go than let the franchise die. Because, you know... Buffy film!
*climbs off soapbox*
I feel like I may have chatted about a hypothetical reboot in the past and said 'nah, it's too soon', so I hope this doesn't make me a hypocrite (let's say my thoughts have been recontextualised by S8 or something), but I'm pretty much up for it. It's a shame it'll only be Buffy's character (and if I were running it I'd be on the phone to Joss night and day trying to convince him to let some of the other characters play), but, you know, it's just a film. The original series will stay in one piece. If it's crap then we can mock it and if it's good/makes a lot of money then Joss can start chasing its shirttails.
I mean, I can be kind of negative about Buffy-related things - the comics, the tie-in novels... But at the same time, I've read a lot of fic, some of it more 'IC' than others (and it feels like this was much less of an issue in the olden days); I used to read AH/random AUs before I got bored of the tropes - I've written AUs myself. I love Wishverse!Buffy and it can hardly be said that she's immediately recognisable (out of context) as being the same as Buffyverse!Buffy (apart from looking like SMG). I can be entertained by YouTube videos of people playing through Chaos Bleeds and random Australian fanfilms (which, boo, seems to have been taken down).
In a choice between Randomer!Buffy film and no Buffy film, I'd rather they give it a go than let the franchise die. Because, you know... Buffy film!
*climbs off soapbox*