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|    Wouter Valentijn to All    |
|    Re: BtVS Reboot?    |
|    06 Aug 16 21:52:13    |
   
   From: liam@valentijn.nu   
      
   Op 6-8-2016 om 18:08 schreef David:   
   > http://www.sheknows.com/entertainment/articles/1127075/buffy-t   
   e-vampire-slayer-reboot   
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   >   
   > Sarah Michelle Gellar drops hints about Cruel Intentions reboot — and a   
   > possible Buffy one?   
   >   
   > Now a wife, mother and business owner, Sarah Michelle Geller has learned   
   > plenty in the years since her many cult classic roles. But as she   
   > revealed at this year's BlogHer conference, the door could still be open   
   > to revisit her career-making turns.   
   >   
   > Fans will pick up their stakes in glee to hear that Gellar isn't saying   
   > no to a Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot. "Look, you never know," she   
   > told conference-goers.   
      
   Wishful thinking I think.   
      
   >   
   > But she admits that a new generation of Buffy viewers could have more to   
   > learn from a new kind of slayer. "That being said, the point of Buffy —   
   > what was so special about it, why it still resonates today — was it was   
   > a metaphor for the horrors of high school, the horrors of that time of   
   > growing up," she said. "The monsters were literally the manifestation of   
   > the horrors of that time. I think that's a very specific story. If   
   > you’re talking about now, that's a very different story, and I don’t   
   > know… I don’t know what that story is now."   
   >   
   > But Geller isn't averse to the idea of a new slayer, with a whole new   
   > generation of horrors. "The whole idea of Buffy giving her power… at the   
   > end, the lore was 'unto one generation a slayer is born, there could   
   > only be one,' and at the end, we broke that. Why does there only have to   
   > be one?"   
   >   
   > She already has one idea for a potential new version of the series —   
   > cyberbullies as the vampires. "Bullies were a literal bully when Buffy   
   > was growing up. They punched, they were physical... Well, now a bully is   
   > something that you hide behind on a screen. What is that story? But I   
   > think that story would have to be told with someone of that age."   
      
   Thinking of "I, Robot... You Jane". :-)   
      
      
   >   
   > { [ONE] new Slayer? After Willow's trick, maybe she should have   
   > said 100 new Slayers. Unless it is a completely brand new BtVS, with   
   > only one in each generation.}   
      
   In the comic book continuation they run in the thousands afaik.   
      
      
   
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