Honestly yes, I don’t see how it can be considered an improvement to remove ‘one girl in all the world’ when that’s so tied in with how Joss originally envisioned the show. Even the changes to the Master and Drusilla remove a lot of Joss’s original intentions. This is one of my fav videos for showing how Bts handled the patriarchy https://youtu.be/1jKYm4GpTvw (watch it, it’s awesome! ) Yes it’s probably more cool and modern to replace the Master with a female villain, it’s probably cooler to not have Drusilla as the insane and ruined victim of Angelus, it’s probably cooler to have Willow secure in herself from the very beginning, but there was a purpose behind those choices. Giving us updated and more traditional badass female characters with a female Mistrass who keeps Spike as her pet makes for a fun villain, but also doesn’t exactly capture the power and meaning of the original story and why so many connected with it
And I think a lot of people feel similarly when it comes to wanting new stories with the slayers, I would LOVE a tv series looking at different slayers over the years for starters, it’s such a rich canon that I don’t know what the point is to keep retelling the story of Buffy. I guess it all comes down to money in the end as Mikeyg says, and they know it’s the Buffy name that sells the most. Even when the creator of the new tv series that’s being discussed has since said that she has no intention of using the Buffy characters themselves, you can tell that there’s a terror from the higher ups to relaunch the franchise without the Buffy name
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Date: 2019-01-26 02:12 pm (UTC)And I think a lot of people feel similarly when it comes to wanting new stories with the slayers, I would LOVE a tv series looking at different slayers over the years for starters, it’s such a rich canon that I don’t know what the point is to keep retelling the story of Buffy. I guess it all comes down to money in the end as Mikeyg says, and they know it’s the Buffy name that sells the most. Even when the creator of the new tv series that’s being discussed has since said that she has no intention of using the Buffy characters themselves, you can tell that there’s a terror from the higher ups to relaunch the franchise without the Buffy name