Olaf the Troll ,'Showtime'
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.
I never cared that much. It didn't make any difference to the story if Cecily was Halfrek or not; Spike's origin would play out the same way.
I did think it was amusing that the torrid spurned love that set off the Terrible Saga of William the Bloody might have been, from her POV, just a minor nuisance in the work of Vengeance.
FTR: He didn't recognize her as Cecily. She said, "William?" and he gave her a questioning look.
Check out this press release:
LOS ANGELES, NOVEMBER 11, 2010 – Atlas Entertainment announced today it is rebooting the beloved franchise, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, with Warner Bros. Pictures. Atlas' Charles Roven and Steve Alexander will produce the feature film alongside Doug Davison and Roy Lee of Vertigo Entertainment (The Ring, How to Train Your Dragon, The Departed). Whit Anderson is writing the script.
Warner Bros. Pictures optioned the rights from creators Fran and Kaz Kuzui, and from Sandollar Productions (Sandy Gallin and Dolly Parton), for Atlas and Vertigo to produce. Buffy the Vampire Slayer first appeared as a film in 1992, subsequently becoming a cult hit and spawning the wildly popular television series starring Sarah Michelle Gellar and David Boreanaz, among many others.
"Whit approached us with an exciting idea about how to update Buffy," said Roven. "There is an active fan base eagerly awaiting this character's return to the big screen. We're thrilled to team up with Doug and Roy on a re-imagining of Buffy and the world she inhabits. Details of the film are being kept under wraps, but I can say while this is not your high school Buffy, she'll be just as witty, tough, and sexy as we all remember her to be."
Ugh. Didn't the Kuzuis already make a shit ton of money without doing anything on the Buffy franchise? Why they gotta go taking a shit all over my happy place?
There is no chance in the world they will do anything that will improve on the original.
Oh well. The Airbender movie came out and didn't ruin my love of the original animated Avatar: TLA.
They really need to give it another decade or so before cracking open the remake vault. Particularly since Joss has been continuing the TV storyline in comics that I'm sure the vast majority of the active fan base is aware of.
Yeah. Make it for your own reasons, but to claim there's a fanbase out there that wants it? Well, they're not internet people. I don't know how they communicated this interest.
There is no chance in the world they will do anything that will improve on the original.
It might possibly improve on the movie, but not the show. No way.
This is impossible. Do these people honestly not know anything about the 'active fan base?'
Meaning no disrespect at all, but I can imagine a few members of that active fan base actually doing violence in protest of a non-Joss Buffy project.
It's true that nothing IS sacred, but I just don't see the economic upside of this choice.
Maybe it's like Springtime for Hitler and they need the tax write-off. Or Billy Walsh is back on the monkey crack again and needed something to make him feel better about his Escobar biopic.(he should have written it like Buffy in a grain Silo.) I predict it's gone faster than New Coke.
What if it's really terrible and offensive? And we're Buffistas? And people get confused and think we're fans of the terrible offensive show?
Our collective reputation will be RUINED.
runs to and fro with hands in the air crying about sky falling
also pops corn and goes looking for fandom drama
Good times, good times.