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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   
   follow-new-slay   
   > > > er   
   > > > -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.   
      
   Okay, I have to clarify that.  The comics are Buffy season 12.  Buffy   
   says she's 30.  She was 16 in 1997, right?  So depending on if you're   
   counting seasons or birthdays, she's in 2009, 10, or 11.  All still the   
   21st Century, but not concurrent with us.   
      
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