Reboot yuckiness: Buffy the Vampire Slayer

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Originally Posted by lashbear

What's a "Reboot" anyway, and why is it different from a "Remake" ?

"Reboot" tends to refer to franchises, as in "we're going to take the familiar characters and setting and start all over again without the baggage of the stories that have come before."

While the term "reboot" is a recent addition to the lexicon, don't be fooled - it's been going on for a long time.

A good example is Zorro. The Zorro of the serials was reimagined when the feature films were made and then reimagined (or "rebooted") again when Disney did the TV series.