The Buffy Reboot and Telly Stuff
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Re: the possible BtVS reboot, my opinion is (not that anyone cares about my opinion, but still...)
Spoilers behind cut for Netflix's Sacred Games
...that it doesn't bother me. I understand why they'd want to reboot the character rather than going with a new Slayer. As my son-in-law said the other day, who is going to tune in to watch a show called Caroline the Vampire Slayer, (or whatever)? 'Buffy' is the name everyone recognises. And it's not like it can affect the original story. Asbeer_good_foamy once memorably said (re: the (mostly) execrable Buffy comics), it's not like they can climb inside my DVDs and change them.
In fact, my main quibbles about it are firstly, that it's Fox that's doing it. I'd thought that, with Lucifer no longer on that network, and The Americans finished on FX, I was done with having to watch any of their content, and I was really pleased about it. Secondly, since I have very ambiguous feelings about Joss these days, I wasn't that pleased about him being that involved with the project. But if he's only exec producing, basically, as I understand it, he'll be being paid for doing bugger all, so that's okay. My third quibble is that the only show the writer of the reboot has been involved in that I've seen is Agents of SHIELD, and I think that's crap, so that doesn't fill me with much optimism re the quality.
But it could be great, who knows?
Other TV watching stuff:
I've finished that Netflix Indian drama, Sacred Games - the one with the subtitles that transliterate the characters' Indian English into American. It was really good, I thought, though I was not pleased when one of my favourite characters - the main female one, as it happens - was killed in the penultimate episode. It also ended on a total cliffhanger so I really hope there's going to be another series. They can't end it like that!
The villains, btw, appear to be a bunch of nutty millenarians, both Hindu and Muslim, who've decided that humanity needs to be wiped out so God can begin again.
Not sure what to watch next. Think I'd better concentrate on finishing Mozart in the Jungle. Currently half way through a re-watch of season 3.
Re: the possible BtVS reboot, my opinion is (not that anyone cares about my opinion, but still...)
Spoilers behind cut for Netflix's Sacred Games
...that it doesn't bother me. I understand why they'd want to reboot the character rather than going with a new Slayer. As my son-in-law said the other day, who is going to tune in to watch a show called Caroline the Vampire Slayer, (or whatever)? 'Buffy' is the name everyone recognises. And it's not like it can affect the original story. As
beer_good_foamy once memorably said (re: the (mostly) execrable Buffy comics), it's not like they can climb inside my DVDs and change them. In fact, my main quibbles about it are firstly, that it's Fox that's doing it. I'd thought that, with Lucifer no longer on that network, and The Americans finished on FX, I was done with having to watch any of their content, and I was really pleased about it. Secondly, since I have very ambiguous feelings about Joss these days, I wasn't that pleased about him being that involved with the project. But if he's only exec producing, basically, as I understand it, he'll be being paid for doing bugger all, so that's okay. My third quibble is that the only show the writer of the reboot has been involved in that I've seen is Agents of SHIELD, and I think that's crap, so that doesn't fill me with much optimism re the quality.
But it could be great, who knows?
Other TV watching stuff:
I've finished that Netflix Indian drama, Sacred Games - the one with the subtitles that transliterate the characters' Indian English into American. It was really good, I thought, though I was not pleased when one of my favourite characters - the main female one, as it happens - was killed in the penultimate episode. It also ended on a total cliffhanger so I really hope there's going to be another series. They can't end it like that!
The villains, btw, appear to be a bunch of nutty millenarians, both Hindu and Muslim, who've decided that humanity needs to be wiped out so God can begin again.
Not sure what to watch next. Think I'd better concentrate on finishing Mozart in the Jungle. Currently half way through a re-watch of season 3.