XPost: rec.arts.tv   
   From: YourName@YourISP.com   
      
   On 2018-07-29 13:55:24 +0000, hector said:   
      
   > On 27/07/2018 8:45 AM, 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-fo   
   low-new-slayer-showrunner-confirms>   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> Of course, the article does go on to say ...   
   >>   
   >>    Owusu-Breen's previous credits in the TV world include the   
   >>    J.J. Abrams espionage thriller Alias, mystery-drama Lost ...   
   >>   
   >> so she could well have learnt from the master of deception (and crap TV   
   >> shows and movies) to say one thing but meant the total opposite.   
   >   
   > Of all the shows that seemed to think they were some kind of follow up   
   > to Buffy, my favourite was the show Reaper.   
   > I don't think they know how to make decent tv shows any more.   
   > Unless maybe it's Legends of Tomorrow or something.   
      
   There are some good shows (most often cancelled too quickly) and some   
   talented people in Hollyweird, but unfortunately the place is currently   
   infested with lazy, talentless scum who think trying to resurrect past   
   successes, usually someone else's work, is a good idea. It's not and   
   almost never works - you can't recapture the magic.   
      
   The old shows worked because of the time they were made, the people who   
   made them, and how they were made ... making any changes (let alone the   
   Politically Correct stupidity they insist on doing these days) to those   
   simply makes a hopeless, ill-fitting mess that no longer has anything   
   to do with the original, so they may as well just have made a brand new   
   show in the first place with a brand new name to go with their silly   
   new ideas.   
      
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