Here's how they could make it work -- Scene of black woman in labor with a chiron that says "2003". Cut to flashback scene of the spell/Buffy's speech from "Chosen". As the spell hits, the baby is born. They give the baby to the mom, and say "What's her name?" Mom says "Buffy".

Cut to scene of young black woman getting out of the car in front of a college dorm in Cleveland with a chiron that says "present day". Mom from before (with some age lines and a grey wig) also gets out of the car.

And voila! New Buffy in college on a hellmouth!

Yep, that would certainly work.

The prospective for the "reboot" has already gotten so much better than when I first heard about it, I'm cautiously optimistic that whatever ends up on screen may very well please me.

My gut feeling is that they will do a reboot/reimagining.

Our new black Buffy will be First Of Her Name. She will have a Giles and a Willow and a Xander and one of them will be gay, and maybe her watcher is a woman etc.

In a way they could do it like the Dini animated version of Batman which just cherry picked the best stories and smoothed them out into one timeline. And this way they could correct some of the bigger mistakes such as Spike's rape attempt, or Dead Lesbian Trope, or Willow's power grab equated with addiction.

I think the interesting angle is that you could find the metaphorical angle on black experience in America as Hell in the same way OG Buffy explored High school as Hell.

Vortex, I like your plan!

I think the interesting angle is that you could find the metaphorical angle on black experience in America as Hell in the same way OG Buffy explored High school as Hell.

Certainly very possible

DB says Buffy reboot sounds great, ok with him to recast Angel

Maxium Hairloaf:

In fact, unlike Buffy fans, the actor doesn't sound perturbed at the notion of someone else donning's Angel's signature leather jacket, should that be the direction Owusu-Breen chooses to go. "[Angel] doesn't age, so it's not like he's not around! Whatever they want to do with the character, it's such a wide, huge universe, you can really go anywhere with characters. I think the storylines will somehow reflect what the characters were about in the past. It's all bloodline, so to speak. Ironic that I called it that! There's always a bloodline somewhere, right?"

Been rewatching Angel for the first time since the initial showing. I forgot how much I love the show theme music.

Theme music of beloved shows = comfort food.

David Boreanaz, Emily Deschanel, et al won a HYUUUUGE lawsuit against Fox over Bones: [link]

Oooh, that's a super interesting read! Nice to hear about arbitration going apparently fairly