XPost: rec.arts.tv   
   From: YourName@YourISP.com   
      
   In article , David Johnston   
    wrote:   
   > On 3/11/2017 11:33 PM, Your Name wrote:   
   > >>>>   
   > >>>> 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.   
   > >   
   > > You do realise that Gellar herself was the replacement for the actress   
   > > from the movie version?   
   >   
   > I do.  But 2 hours of a movie flop doesn't ingrain itself the way 7   
   > seasons of a fairly successful TV series does.   
   >   
   > > (I have a vague, possibly wrong, recollection that Gellar was even   
   > > the second choice for the TV role.)   
   > >   
   > > EVERY actor is replaceable in Hollyweird. Nobody thought they'd be   
   > > stupid enough to re-do MacGyver since Richard Dean Anderson *was*   
   > > MacGyver, but they still did (and it's horrible).   
   >   
   > Macgyver is from 12 years earlier than Buffy.  And didn't have the same   
   > kind of fanatical following that Star Trek or Buffy did.  Macgyver has   
   > 547 fanfics on fanfiction.net.  Buffy has 49.714.  Consider what those   
   > numbers mean in terms of the shows respective ability to inspire lasting   
   > devotion.  MacGyver was ultimately pretty forgettable.  Literally.  I"m   
   > straining to remember any of the episodes I watched. Oh, I remember the   
   > time he finally used a gun...by throwing it.  And the time he dropped   
   > the unkillable assassin down a mineshaft.  That's about it.  But Richard   
   > Dean Anderson was great on Stargate.   
      
   Try Xena (equally appallingly as bad as Buffy), or any one of the   
   bazillion other things that the talentless lazy hack generation in   
   Hollyweird has or are planning to "reboot" ... EVERYONE and EVERYTHING   
   is easily replaced in Holyweird, and absolutely nothing is considered   
   sacred.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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