By Chris Snellgrove | Published
Recently, Deadline has broken out what is already the most surprising news of the year: Sarah Michelle Gellar will return to restart a restart of her classic from cult of the 90s incredibly popular Buffy The Vampire Slayer. The details on this subject are still rare, although the description of this as “the next chapter in the buffyverse” implies that it will take place in the same world as the original show. And this is a large part of the reason why it Buffy The restart is intended to succeed: because it will strengthen a series which has left the door wide open for a continuation.
Buffy’s restart plot after season 7
A few Buffy Fans do not like season 7, but the stopper of a final is a large part of the reason why this restart will probably be a success. The whole tradition of this universe was that one killer was active both and blessed with all the power that accompanies him. In the final of the series, Buffy has managed to fully free this power, giving “potential” worldwide the same set of low level superpowers that she had used to defend Sunnydale against evil over the years.
Although we do not know exactly in which direction the new show will take, it is a fairly sure bet that Buffy herself is not the main character. In fact, it will almost certainly be an observative figure for one or more killers who need advice. Thank you to the original Buffy A finish, this aspect of the restart would make sense because we know full well that this fictitious world was suddenly filled with young girls who, overnight, suddenly won powers that could transform them into heroes or bad guys. Anyway, this world will need the veteran presence of Buffy, this one with more experience than anything else.
Do not make the picard error
Assuming the Buffy The restart is going this way, it seems that it will be a better start than its nearest analog: Star Trek: Picard. This Paramount + show was Also A renewal of a kind of beloved whole shows that everyone loved in the 90s, and in the same way he was in the same way his title of older mentor to a new generation of heroes. However, many trek fans hated This first season because it changed everything we love about Picard (including his hatred of transforming androids into slaves) in order to make him this distant figure which suddenly needed to return to action to save the daytime.
Narratively speaking, it is a great way to bring a character back in action, that’s why it is a sure bet that the Buffy The restart will do this exactly for our favorite slayer. However, Buffy does not have to lose its ideals and its status as Picard did. Instead, she simply needs to be what she was at the end of the series: a single killer in a world where hundreds or even thousands of others now share her powers.
It would be absolutely perfect if the personality and morality of Buffy remained the same, but it had to go up herd on a new harvest of killers who, in the language of Silicon Valley, just want to move quickly and break things. In any case, writers for Buffy Restarting has a lot of material to rely on, including certain killer comics which are (for the moment, at least) canonical. And if the show manages to hang other return actors (none has yet been confirmed), we can finally know if Buffy ended up with Angel, Spike or someone else (although if it is is Riley, the fandom can riot).
This Buffy fan has hope
As an enormous Buffy The Vampire Slayer fan of my teenagers (I joined Diffusion lists To receive VHS recordings before my city finally obtained WB!), I have great hopes for this restart. It is significant because I looked at other renewals like Sink fail, and I looked Picardy Almost destroy the heritage of his title character before sticking the landing with his last season. The world of restarting television is, frankly, something of an apocalypse right now, but which better than Buffy Summers to browse and save the world?
Source: Deadline
