-Esther reads Joss Whedon’s Buffy!
-I read Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson’s The Boys!
-Both series can be massively unsatisfying.
-They can also be very entertaining.
-So we’re talking about examples of both, and why the downsides sometimes outweigh the upsides.
-6th Sense’s 4a.m. Instrumental for the theme music.
-See you, space cowboy!

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I believe I was the very last person in the world to discover hulu, but when I did, I was very pleased to see that the first few seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer were on it.

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Buffy’s coming back to the big screen!  And when I say, ‘Buffy’, I mean just her.  Not Willow, or Angel, or Xander, or Giles, or Oz, or Dawn, or Joss Whedon.

Or any reference to the television series.

So, some girl who is blonde and stakes vampires.  Or perhaps she stakes vampires.  One of the people involved in re-making the series is Roy Lee, whose past films include The Strangers (People struggle helplessly against evil but evil wins.), The Grudge (People again struggle helplessly against evil but it still kind of wins.), and The Ring (Well.  We’ll call this one a possible draw for evil.  Nah.  Screw that.  It wins.).  I hope at some point during the hiring process someone asked Mister Lee whether or not he could make a movie in which good triumphs.

So what do you think.  Will this help you not look like a decaying dinosaur when you make Buffy references to today’s impressionable youth?  Or is this basically a way of turning Buffy into a brand name?