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mousepod 05-26-2009 09:11 AM

Reboot yuckiness: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
 
With all the hoopla over and success of the "rebooted" Star Trek, I've been thinking: while a reboot might be preferable to a crappy sequel, what's the point of hauling out old franchises anyway?

Here's the latest:

Buffy Reboot. No Whedon. No Gellar.

yay.:rolleyes:

LSPoorEeyorick 05-26-2009 09:21 AM

WTF????????

I could handle a reboot if Joss was involved. But I don't think Joss would ever be involved in a reboot. Spinoff, maybe. No reboot.

Stupid Kuzui.

Snowflake 05-26-2009 09:31 AM

Yeech (in Mad Magazine vernacular)

innerSpaceman 05-26-2009 09:38 AM

Um, can you reboot something this relatively new?

Batman, Superman, Star Trek, James Bond ... all at minimum 40 years old.


Buffy? Sorry, too new to reboot. Retarded.



I'm not upset about not involving the original talent. The reason original talent's not typically involved in a reboot is because they're all dead.


Besides, if the original talent is involved, how is that a reboot as opposed to a remake?

Alex 05-26-2009 09:39 AM

If they think they can do something original and interesting, then I'm all in favor of them trying.

It'll suck or it won't. The first Buffy movie sucked and most people have never seen the TV show, so have at it and good luck (though they'll likely fail to accomplish anything worthwhile), says I.

Ghoulish Delight 05-26-2009 09:39 AM

Batman and Superman had been rebooted many many times in their 40 year history before their latest.

innerSpaceman 05-26-2009 09:43 AM

But how old were they when they first rebooted?

Superman in 78. Nothing prior could have been considered a reboot. The TV show was not a reboot of the comic. It was an adaptation. So Superman was already hella old in 1978 when, arguably, the Chris Reeve series rebooted that franchise by starting over in a somewhat different direction.

The Batman TV show, on the other hand, was such a wild reimagining of the comic and any prior adaptations, that I'd consider that 60's show a reboot by today's standards. How old was Batman in the 1960's?

JWBear 05-26-2009 11:06 AM

Well... The prevailing attitude here is that a reboot merely needs to be "fun" and have a hot lead in order to be good. So lets wait and see...

mousepod 05-26-2009 11:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman (Post 284757)
But how old were they when they first rebooted?

Superman in 78. Nothing prior could have been considered a reboot. The TV show was not a reboot of the comic. It was an adaptation. So Superman was already hella old in 1978 when, arguably, the Chris Reeve series rebooted that franchise by starting over in a somewhat different direction.

The Batman TV show, on the other hand, was such a wild reimagining of the comic and any prior adaptations, that I'd consider that 60's show a reboot by today's standards. How old was Batman in the 1960's?

As a comic geek, I could enumerate the multiple reboots of Batman and Superman through the decades.

But I don't want to distract iSm from his appropriate Prop 8 outrage.

innerSpaceman 05-26-2009 12:02 PM

oh, i don't read the comics. From what i understand, rebooting has been going on in the comic world for decades.


My comments are about visual media only. Reboot is a fairly new concept.


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