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Your Name wrote:
> The media these days stupidly uses the term "reboot" to mean any old
> show that is being brought back into production, whether that's an
> actual 'reboot', or a 're-imagination', or even just a 'resurrection'
> with a properly done sequel / follow-on series.
>
> From ComingSoon.net ...
>
> Buffy reboot will follow new slayer, showrunner confirms
> --------------------------------------------------------
> It was officially announced last week that the hit WB series
> Buffy the Vampire Slayer is getting the reboot treatment at
> Fox with a black actress leading the series! Fan reaction as
> mixed at first as it was initially seen as though Sarah
> Michelle Gellar's portrayal would be replaced. However, new
> showrunner Monica Owusu-Breen (Alias) has just confirmed
> that the new series will not be replacing Gellar in the
> titular role, but rather will focus on a new slayer.
>
> "For some genre writers it's Star Wars. Buffy the Vampire
> Slayer is my Star Wars," Owusu-Breen wrote in a tweet.
> "Before I became a writer, I was a fan. For seven seasons,
> I watched Buffy Summers grow up, find love, kill that love.
> I watched her fight and struggle and slay. There is only ONE
> Buffy. One Xander, one Willow, Giles, Cordelia, Oz, Tara,
> Kendra, Faith, Spike, Angel ... They can't be replaced. Joss
> Whedon's brilliant and beautiful series can't be replicated.
> I wouldn't try to. But here we are, twenty years later ...
> And the world seems a lot scarier. So maybe, it could be
> time to meet a new Slayer ... And that's all I can say."
>
> http://www.comingsoon.net/tv/news/960779-buffy-reboot-will-fol
ow-new-slayer-s
> howrunner-confirms>
If they're going to do a show based around another Slayer, why not do
FRAY? I liked that comic. Would make a good show, and Melaka Fray is
hawt. (Or at least she's drawn that way.)
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