Buffy The Vampire Slayer reboot

[darth dennis]

Yeah I was a huge fan of those shows when they aired, but they were very much a product of their time, and I expect a Buffy sequel series to work about as well as the new X-Files revival they tried a while ago. Especially given we see that super quippy style of humor in everything now.

Plus as controversial as he's become, I still wouldn't want to to see a new Buffy or Angel series without Whedon as the main driving force behind it.

Yeah, I think so much of that humor was a product of Whedon...you can see it in his involvement in the Avenger movies as well. Dislike him as a human, but the guy understood comedic timing and the balancing act of placing it in the midst of apocalyptic drama...

 

[WolfBoy]

I for one am very excited about this. I just hope it's good. SMG is a huge talent, always been an underrated actress imo, hopefully she has something decent to work with storywise. Chloe Zhao is definitely a great choice as a director, her visuals are good.

There was a reddit leaker last year who made claims of SMG retuning with Chloe directing and everyone thought they were lying. Now with this news being announced, turns out they weren't.
Storywise they claimed Buffys arc will be around her being older, and very much bitter about how much of a burden her job has become on her life, and has become somewhat checked out of the job. A new enemy shows up that forces her to face her responsibilities, it's seems like some sort of resurrections arc plays out for her. Of course that could all change/be a draft ect. but it's interesting.

Hopefully a new series can wash away those horrendous season 8 comics at least.

This could also bring a surge of new merch too!

 

[davejames]

Yeah, I think so much of that humor was a product of Whedon...you can see it in his involvement in the Avenger movies as well. Dislike him as a human, but the guy understood comedic timing and the balancing act of placing it in the midst of apocalyptic drama...

Yeah as good as his other writers were, you could always tell when Whedon was the main writer on a script as it had an extra something special about it. Much like with Steven Moffat scripts during his DW run.

 

[chrisstbh]

Especially given we see that super quippy style of humor in everything now.

I choose to blame Whedon for that anyway. It is referred to as Marvel humour.

 

[Popid]

Yeah, I think so much of that humor was a product of Whedon...you can see it in his involvement in the Avenger movies as well. Dislike him as a human, but the guy understood comedic timing and the balancing act of placing it in the midst of apocalyptic drama...

yeh I think one of the biggest differences between Whedon's actual writing, and what the MCU has become is that Whedon also understood that you don't just use humour unexpectedly in the midst of apocalyptic drama, but you also undercut levity with unexpected pathos - which is something modern marvel doesn't seem to get.

They ape his style, but it's like... a fascimile of a facsimile at this point. They can write 'joke-like stuff' that has the pattern of banter, but the stuff that the characters are saying has to be actually witty. Also, people give/gave Whedon **** for all his characters 'sounding alike' - in one sense that's true in that he's not naturalistic, and has an authorial style, but on a deeper sense it isn't true at all; almost always the content of what is being said is a super clear indicator of who is saying it, he was always good at delineating characters like that. That's also something that the Marvel writers aping his style don't seem to get, so it really does end up sounding like this homogenous hodgepodge of things that appear at first glance to be jokes

 

[Slugly]

It's my favorite show ever. I'm excited and also scared. Revivals are rarely good..
But at least Buffy will have a regain of populary which means more merch

 

[Asta]

I decided to start re-watching The Thin Man series of films last night (1934-1947).

The snappy dialogue, jokes and character interaction, especially the friendly sarcasm between William Powell and Myrna Loy, feel very much like the forerunner of the 'Whedon style'.