I'm guessing a lot of us wouldn't be too thrilled if new not-Joss producers did a revamp (so to speak) of Buffy or Firefly 30 years down the line that made use of a completely different tone from the original's.
I honestly think it would depend on if it was any good. Yeah, there'd be an initial concern and some nostalgia (much like how I'm feeling towards the "reboot" with the new Star Trek movie) but in the end it would depend on the final product.
A lot of the complaints, though, are pretty much: Ron Moore is the devil that destroyed everything that was great about the original show. The writing and acting is absolutely terrible. There's no plot, all they do is fight all the time and when they're not fighting, they're having sex.
Which makes me think "Have you actually watched the show, or did you just see the first 5 minutes of the mini and then base everything else on the previews?"
Are there BtVS movie fans who hate Joss for what he did with the show? That'd be the most apt comparison in my eyes.
Actually, when the show first came out, I didn't watch because the previews were making it seem like it was just a bad horror show, whereas I'd been amused by the movie. Then I finally saw the show and realized what it actually was.
And maybe Paul Ruebens.
Eh, I suspect he could get behind the change even thought it meant his phenomenal death scene would never fit the show except in a AU-or-otherwise-reality*-bending episode (why do I always type epidose?)
*reality as defined by the series
eta The whole "Kill him! A lot!" would have fit Spike to a T if he'd lost an arm.
I think they hate what he did
to
the show, which is different from hating the difference between the movie and the show.
Unless the original movie featured Amber Benson's still-living character in some scene I missed, anyway.
I'm sure I've mentioned this before, but my favorite will always be the guy who asked Moore, "When you were following your dream to become a writer, did you ever think that someday you would be using it to crush the dreams of others?"
Bless their fevered brains.
"When you were following your dream to become a writer, did you ever think that someday you would be using it to crush the dreams of others?"
That's why I became a writer. For sure.
There are other reasons to become a writer?
"When you were following your dream to become a writer, did you ever think that someday you would be using it to crush the dreams of others?"
I don't know. I think there are better professions to follow if you want to crush dreams. Like teacher, or therapist, or network executive.
