[Tiste Simeon]

For some reason The Man in the High Castle is trending on Prime Video (strange!) so I've been watching it. Fantastic show, but a bit depressing considering how many characters are American but fully sold into the Nazi way of life...

[QuickTidal]

Tiste Simeon, on 01 February 2025 - 08:01 PM, said:

For some reason The Man in the High Castle is trending on Prime Video (strange!) so I've been watching it. Fantastic show, but a bit depressing considering how many characters are American but fully sold into the Nazi way of life...

It gets a little on the murky end with the nazi plotline by the final season, but the Japanese side of it stays strong throughout and Joel De La Fuente’s Inspector Kido is the best character arc by a country mile, and he should have won awards for that performance…its exquisite.

[QuickTidal]

This may be the BEST entertainment news so far this year. BUFFY reboot with SMG in the works with Chloe Zhao!

OH MY GODS YES. And Whedon nowhere to be found on the crew. Good.

You guys have no idea, BUFFY was my JAM in my late teens early 20's. I'm so excited.


And in case we wanted something more? Here's SMG in the 'Yummy Sushi' pyjamas from S4 on Instagram today already buzzing about it!!!!

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[Abyss]

The BtVS news... yeah, that sounds good to me.

Now stand by for the entire cast to be quoted w variations of 'no one has called me but i would LOVE to'. Tho i'm betting no one calls Boreanaz, and Brendon is a mess even if he could use the work.

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Abyss, on 04 February 2025 - 02:50 PM, said:

The BtVS news... yeah, that sounds good to me.

Now stand by for the entire cast to be quoted w variations of 'no one has called me but i would LOVE to'. Tho i'm betting no one calls Boreanaz, and Brendon is a mess even if he could use the work.

Since they intentionally avoided Whedon, I expect Brendon not to be asked back but they could just cast his twin brother Kelly Donovan in the role of Xander and be done with it...that's easy.


I expect surviving cast to be back at points (Willow, Dawn, Spike) to be back..and Giles IF they don't follow the Comic for S8 where a possessed Angel murders him...and if I'm honest, I could see a resurrected Cordy coming back in some capacity as a shock reveal.


But I think the main cast will be new younger people, and Buffy will fill the Bruce Wayne/Batman Beyond role?

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QuickTidal, on 04 February 2025 - 02:59 PM, said:

...But I think the main cast will be new younger people, and Buffy will fill the Bruce Wayne/Batman Beyond role?

This is a risk this sort of show faces.... the conflict between new cast/new audience and 'bring back everyone and give them more to do so the old audience returns'. I hope they stick SMG in some form of leader or mentor roll and go entirely new, i fear they keep the focus on her and a revolving run of returnees.

[QuickTidal]

Abyss, on 04 February 2025 - 03:03 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 04 February 2025 - 02:59 PM, said:

...But I think the main cast will be new younger people, and Buffy will fill the Bruce Wayne/Batman Beyond role?

This is a risk this sort of show faces.... the conflict between new cast/new audience and 'bring back everyone and give them more to do so the old audience returns'. I hope they stick SMG in some form of leader or mentor roll and go entirely new, i fear they keep the focus on her and a revolving run of returnees.

I feel like some of the recent reboot/long sequel shows have gotten it right. FRASIER....dribs and drabs of the old cast showing up here and there, but the new cast being allowed to shine and make their own thing....or FULLER HOUSE where the old cast just backed up the younger cast, and the old cast were doing different things than they had been as youths, so it worked (until Becky got caught stealing and shit)...it can work if they do it right, and I agree that Buffy should play the mentor role and allow the new cast to shine on their own.


Oh, and also Eliza Dushku (who for all intents and purposes when Buffy ended was THE Slayer) has given up acting to focus on a different career, so I don't know how much she'd want to be involved...depends how much money they offer her I guess?

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QuickTidal, on 04 February 2025 - 03:12 PM, said:

Abyss, on 04 February 2025 - 03:03 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 04 February 2025 - 02:59 PM, said:

...But I think the main cast will be new younger people, and Buffy will fill the Bruce Wayne/Batman Beyond role?

This is a risk this sort of show faces.... the conflict between new cast/new audience and 'bring back everyone and give them more to do so the old audience returns'. I hope they stick SMG in some form of leader or mentor roll and go entirely new, i fear they keep the focus on her and a revolving run of returnees.

I feel like some of the recent reboot/long sequel shows have gotten it right. FRASIER....dribs and drabs of the old cast showing up here and there, but the new cast being allowed to shine and make their own thing....or FULLER HOUSE where the old cast just backed up the younger cast, and the old cast were doing different things than they had been as youths, so it worked (until Becky got caught stealing and shit)...it can work if they do it right, and I agree that Buffy should play the mentor role and allow the new cast to shine on their own.


Oh, and also Eliza Dushku (who for all intents and purposes when Buffy ended was THE Slayer) has given up acting to focus on a different career, so I don't know how much she'd want to be involved...depends how much money they offer her I guess?

Hannigan and Trachtenberg are both still in the acting game, Carpenter too i think. That would be plenty.
I think Marsters got out and just does voicework now, and honestly he (still looks good but) looks nothing like Spike any longer. Tho once we're playing w vamps hey, bring back Juliet Landau in any capacity and i'm there. Anthony Head's an obvious and should be a HUGE deal.