I actually gave my tapes away on a buy nothing group waaaaay back in 2006 or thereabouts. I had made special labels for the tapes. First just Buffy, and then Buffy and Angel. The full run as I recall, minus an ep or five from forgotten programming or the dreaded brown/blackout.
Buffy and Angel 1: BUFFYNANGLE4EVA!!!!!1!
Is it better the second time around? Or the third? Or tenth? This is the place to come when you have a burning desire to talk about an old episode that was just re-run.
The Buffy reboot pilot has wrapped shooting, with Chloé Zhao producing and directing, and Nora and Lilla Zuckerman set to be showrunners.
Gellar says in a new interview with IGN. “For me, the heart of Buffy was always about found family—that sense of belonging and being loved for who you are—and that’s more important now than ever.
Of course, I will have to watch, but I am determined to manage expectations. I don't want to hate it.
I have high hopes. I'm not expecting the same show, of course, or even the same attachment to it, but I think there's a possibility for some good entertainment.
It is quite the challenge to satisfy those who loved the original, and at the same time attract a new generation of fans. I am cheering for them to get it right.
I just can't imagine how they're going to manage that tricky tone with the quippy one liners and deep emotional beats and the HSQ.
I'll certainly check it out, but they need a lot of really good comic actors who can play richer material too, not just cute faces.
I will certainly watch. I have no idea what to expect and will try to keep it that way as I feel like that will be the only way to manage my expectations (that is, to strive not to have any at all).
I was thinking I haven't seen any Chloe Zhao movies, but I have seen Eternals. I don't think that tells me anything, though. I just looked up the Zuckerman sisters and they are associated with Poker Face and Fringe and some other things that sound positive, so that's promising
I want to love it and likely will.
Chloé Zhao’s movie, Hamnet, currently in the film festival circuit, is at 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. Although it is Most Emphatically Not a Light Comedy.
Also, I am reminded that I wouldn't have thought the American Pie guys would have been a good choice to bring us Murderbot and they are knocking it out of the park, so who even knows?