I know of no fan of Buffy the Vampire Slayer who was clamoring for a Buffy reboot. I know of no one who wants ANYTHING rebooted or adapted at this point in time. The Lord of the Rings has been destroyed by Amazon. The Rings of Prime show is a disaster. Willow, The Wheel of Time. The Witcher. All these and more have been adapted to TV and destroyed. Disney tried to resurect the Netflix adaptations of Marvel to disasterous effect. Daredevil and Echo were awful. She Hulk was an abomination.
The people who wanted to reboot it, are the folks who have destroyed every other IP they own and are now looking for "What have we got left?" Why? Because they are incapable of doing anything original. Buffy. Xena. Even Hercules: The Legendary Journeys from the 1990s was fun. They were all original, or truly original takes on old stories. (A humerous treatment of Hecules done almost as a buddy cop show?)
I can't even imagine what Modern Hollywood would have done to Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Buffy was the slayer, but she was, as the Drinker points out, a mess a lot of the time. Sad. Frightened. Heartbroken. Tired of the slog. She wasn't the perfect girlboss that is all Hollywood can write today.
This is Critical Drinker's video Buffy Reboot Cancelled - Let Her Rest In Peace
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