Critical Drinker: Buffy Reboot [Wisely] Cancelled

Agreed.

JQ and I both freakin' loved Buffy. But the Kuzui reboot idea sounded just catastrophically terrible. And the recently-abandoned sequel didn't sound a lot better. As the Drinker notes: without Whedon, there is no hope of success. I've heard the stories, and, yes, he sounds like a bad person. And the accounts of this from the cast sound very credible to me--FWTW. But--again, as the Drinker notes--dude could write.

Anyway. The chance of a new Buffy being anywhere near as good as actual Buffy are vanishing small. And the odds of it being a complete disaster--and probably a woke disaster--are pretty good. So it's just a really bad gamble. Is it really worth the risk of getting something like the new woke "Star Trek"--whatever the hell that's called. ST Academy or something? (Answer: no, it is not.)

Apparently one of these proposals wanted to make the main character Buffy herself, but make her black. Which...why? The story has a sequel-explaining storyline built right into it. Why the hell would you ignore that? Well...maybe because the final episode was so bad, and at that point apparently every girl in the world becomes a Slayer... So, come to think of it, maybe a reboot is the only real option...

Wonder which character they would make trans? Clearly having mere gay characters is passe now...no way that would be sufficient. Maybe some extra "neurodivergence" and whatnot, too.

Anyway: