Reboot yuckiness: Buffy the Vampire Slayer

[innerSpaceman]

I see the value in Ghoulish Delight's defintion, but the exceptions are glaring.

Was Casino Royale a reboot or not? It posited James Bond as a brand-new agent getting his Double Oh status. But it did not re-tell any origin story.

In fact, since there never was an origin story, one could argue Casino Royale told the origin story for the first time. Does that make it a reboot? Or is starting the main character from scratch sufficient, even if it's not retelling a story told before?

In a sense, the same can be said of Star Trek. It told the "origin" story of how these characters came to be together, and did so for the first time ever. Yet it, too, was clearly a reboot. Starting the characters from scratch again the only pertinent factor.



Singer's Superman was likey an attempt to reboot. But while it was essentially a remake of Superman I and II of the Reeve series, it did not restart the timeline or the character at all.


This is all clearly subjective, then ... it seems.


And to get back to the original point, and without the benefit of the finished product yet existing, I'd peg the new Buffy as a new incarnation and not a reboot.


But this is all the silliest of semantics.