The #nerds are still angry over the #buffy reboot!
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You know the shit has hit the fan when the tags #joss and #whedon are both trending on Twitter worldwide and every blog from here to Guam is writing about the Buffy reboot coming out of Warner Bros. The truth is a rose by any other name just isn't a rose and a Buffy without Joss Whedon just isn't Buffy at all, period, end of sentence. Dress it up put a hot chic writer named Whit (Whitney) Anderson in charge who has no writing credits to her name and a couple of small acting rolls but what you have is still a FAKE Buffy movie. As a loyal fan I am saddened and quite frankly very disgusted by this entire thing I doubt it highly that loyal Friends fans would want a Friends movie without the original writers or the original cast.
For those who don't understand the history behind Buffy the Vampire Slayer (BTVS) it started from the mind of Joss Whedon who's idea was unfortunately not realized on the big screen and instead was basically butchered into what we all remember as that lame ass movie from 1992. Joss; having the guts that he had said wait a minute I want to do a television show so I can realize the dream of what Buffy was meant to be and the WB got on board. The cards were stacked against him from the beginning and most critics were dismissing this as another bomb but with excellent, witty writing and a talented young cast he managed to shut them all up in the first season. It was apparent very early on that this Buffy was nothing like the movie we were first introduced to. The series ran for seven seasons from 1997-2003 and touched upon many different parts of growing up as well as being the one and only slayer in the entire world.
Buffy Summers, was more than a television character to most young girls growing up she was them, navigating a world of metaphorical evil and monsters all while trying to deal with being a teenager and sometimes the world of monsters and teenage boys blur. The responsibility that is put on the shoulders of teens today and how they seem to be forced to grow up faster than we did when we were younger, we all related. Joss was careful and meticulous to be inclusive to all groups of teens showing how even if we all seem different we are really all the same we really do all deal with the same things in life. The thought of making this movie without Sarah Michelle Gellar, Nicholas Brendon, Alyson Hannigan, Anthony Head, or James Marsters seems like a slap in the face to the creators, writers and all the loyal fans that followed these characters from their inception. Each actor and actress made those characters their own we fell in love with them we cheered for them we cried for them and at times hated them but it was those people that made the characters come to life on screen. You could absolutely do a BTVS movie with the original characters I mean for crying out loud they aren't in their 60s and when the show ended they were out of college approaching their 30s anyway.
Aside from the obvious reasons this movie shouldn't be made how about the fact that no one would go see it. Warner Bros. stands to lose the entire fan base of BTVS alienating us its bad enough we have to watch movies like Twilight and shows like Vampire Diaries that clearly have taken most if not all of their storylines from BTVS. Buffy and Angel constantly struggle to have a relationship as slayer and vampire, mortal and immortal, now its Edward and Bella, or Elena and Stephan the struggle between vampire and werewolf, good vamps vs. bad vamps who has a soul who doesn't, Buffy started it all, Joss started it all. Warner Bros. is taking a beloved series that still to this day is more popular than ever and ruining it! Could you imagine the first Star Trek movie being done without Captain Kirk or Spock, without William Shatner!? I'm really starting to wonder if there are no good ideas left in Hollywood or will people just keep "rebooting" everything which is just another word for "remake." The A-Team, Karate Kid, is nothing sacred anymore?! Who's going to play Buffy, Willow Smith DEAR GOD NO! I know for a fact there is certainly not a shortage of writers out there who would like to get a movie made who have original ideas and new scripts that no one has ever done before where is the creativity, the innovation have we all become PDiddy?
BTVS meant a great deal to me it still does its one if not my ONE favorite television show of all time, right in front of Golden Girls, and to see it defamed hurts my heart. All of us fans cry a little each time we think of this happening and if Whit Anderson has any amount of respect for the creator of the show (Joss) whom she vocally praises she will step down as the screen writer. Whit take it from me you can't recreate genius you can't take a work from someone you admire and do something new or different with it because the best praise the best admiration comes from those who sit back and allow art to be what it is, art, a piece of history.
You want to really make a difference and pay homage to Joss? Whit, tell Warner Bros. you won't do this without Joss and without at least asking the original cast to join. You want to blow our minds with your writing make us believers in you then continue the series take the season eight comics and bring them to the big screen. Do the right thing for all the loyal fans that have spent years buying the DVDs, action figures, trading cards, and comics the people who wrote philosophy and psychology books based on the series those are the people you are servicing not Warner Bros. In this crazy manufactured world of cheesy remakes we need a light at the end of the proverbial tunnel we need to know that light isn't an oncoming train. I want to believe in you truly I do because I think a true fan understands the show and a person who has spent their lives dedicated to keeping its memory alive can really have a lot to add to the story. If I had one wish this holiday season it would be that Joss Whedon reboots Buffy with all the original members of the BTVS cast, if only.
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