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    BTR1701  wrote:   
      
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   >  Your Name  wrote:   
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   > > 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-f   
   llow-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.)   
      
   Fray's back in the 21st Century in the current comics.   
      
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