My wife, a huge Buffy fan, is not impressed. She does not want to see her favourite character played by a different actor and was hoping for either a revival with SMG or a new story in the Buffyverse.
She also made the argument that you can't just change the appearance of Buffy since the character is supposed to subvert our expectations having this perky blonde cheerleader, who in most horror movies would be the first one to die, end up as the ass kicking hero. My response was that black people also die off pretty quickly in the horror genre so maybe then can make this work.
Personally it just strikes me as lazy though. Whedon has created this great universe with the potential for any number of stories about slayers and the supernatural. Why can't we explore that universe further from a fresh new perspective instead of a re-hash of something done before?
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