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   David Johnston to Your Name   
   Re: 20 Things We Still Love About Buffy    
   11 Mar 17 22:25:01   
   
   XPost: rec.arts.tv   
   From: davidjohnston29@block.com   
      
   On 3/11/2017 10:00 PM, Your Name wrote:   
   > In article , David Johnston   
   >  wrote:   
   >> On 3/11/2017 7:24 PM, Your Name wrote:   
   >>> In article <58c467a5$0$798$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>, Wouter Valentijn   
   >>>  wrote:   
   >>>> Op 10-3-2017 om 22:47 schreef Your Name:   
   >>>>> In article , Ubiquitous   
   >>>>>  wrote:   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>> ...   
   >>>>>> 1) Sarah Michelle Gellar   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> Sarah Michelle Gellar doesn’t get nearly enough credit for how   
   >>>>>> incredible an actress she is, and how integral she was to Buffy the   
   >>>>>> Vampire Slayer. No one, I repeat, no one else could’ve brought Buffy to   
   >>>>>> life as much as she did. Gellar handled the comedic and action-filled   
   >>>>>> scenes like a pro, but her real strength was in the show’s more   
   >>>>>> dramatic moments. Gellar’s performance was wrought with real, raw   
   >>>>>> emotion. Nobody ever recovers after watching her in “The Body.” Nobody.   
   >>>>> ...   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> "incredible actress"?!? She's not even a "mildly good actress" ...   
   >>>>> she's a one-"hit" wonder who put me off bothering to even try to watch   
   >>>>> the Buffy show.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Charmed was the much better show with much better actresses ... well,   
   >>>>> excluding the dismally bad Shannen Doherty of course, back thankfully   
   >>>>> she did her usual walk-out-in-a-sulk-for-not-being-THE-star-of-the-show   
   >>>>> routine.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Charmed the much better show ?!?   
   >>>>   
   >>>> ROFL !!!!   
   >>>   
   >>> And which of the two shows reportedly has a silly "reboot" in the   
   >>> planning? Yep, "Charmed", not silly "Buffy".  :-p   
   >>   
   >> That's not becaue Buffy's worse.  It's because the Charmed Ones are   
   >> easily replaced by another set of three.  You'd have to wait a lot   
   >> longer to before recasting the part of Buffy would fly.   
   >   
   > Nah. She's easily replaced ...   
      
   You are of course wrong.  The character is still very much identified   
   with the actress.  That won't stop an eventual reboot, but the turn   
   around time is going to be around 40 years same as for Star Trek.   
      
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