Buffy the Vampire Slayer [gah, spoilers!!]

At the time, I didn't actually think Joyce was the First -- she acted considerably differently -- but the writer confirmed that she was.

(Okay, confession, last season was an enormous disappointment for me, with a few bright spots.)

But it wasn't just the planning, cause even when nothing's happening there's room for good writing. Everyone was distracted by the phenomenon of ending the show, I guess.

lol

the comic is like season 1 of the show all over again, writers trying to find their legs in the new medium with some nice bright spots

http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/watch_with_kristin/b106789_angel_star_andy_hallett_dies_of_heart.html

we are so back?
https://deadline.com/2025/02/buffy-the-vampire-slayer-reboot-sarah-michelle-gellar-hulu-pilot-chloe-zhao-1236273767/

Hard Pass.

lol no one should let that director near anything that requires FX or a mythology-rich script.

you're basing that off her one Marvel film?

No one should let Marvel directors near anything... but I'll still give this a shot.

I didn't like Nomadland, either, but I haaaaaaated her Marvel film. Though I'll never know if that was a bad film she made better or a bad film she made worse.

Michelle Trachtenberg found dead.

https://nypost.com/2025/02/26/entertainment/michelle-trachtenberg-dead-at-39-former-gossip-girl-harriet-the-spy-star-shared-troubling-posts/

Damn.

That is unbearably sad. 39!

ABC reported she was recovering from a liver transplant. terrible!

Aw that's really sad, really young! She was great in Buffy.

she was great, it's amazing how much more insufferable dawn could've been in the wrong hands

Great doing a soap-opera baddie in Gossip Girl too.

my wife is in the middle of a gossip girl rewatch and smack in the middle of a Georgina Sparks storyline too.

xp Georgina Sparks was easily the best character in season 1 & 2, she had so much fun with it

aw man RIP

Apparently the reboot is not happening. To which I say: Good. Come up with some new ideas you bums.

Can’t believe she got eight Oscar noms this year for a sequel.

She was attached to direct, not write the thing.

Doesn’t make her any less a bum!

Plot twist, actually the reboot only appears to be dead; it's actually trapped in a hell dimension

disappointing as I would have liked to see this. Zhao directed the pilot but there were rumors that it didn't turn out very well. I'm not sure why she works on these pop culture mainstays, this is not her forte, but maybe she just likes this stuff too?

By all reports she is a big Buffy fan and I imagine that's the reason she did it, since there can't be a ton of money there. will be interesting if she gets the Mission Impossible gig, as rumored

Getting a big name to direct the pilot is a kinda common move, I somewhat doubt her direction would've made much of a difference either way as it usually translates into pretty anonymous work for hire. I don't mean that in a derogatory way tbc, someone has to do it.

I only know the Zuckermans’ work via Poker Face, but that suggests they were suitable for a witty adventure-of-the-week series with character throughlines and a flexible format, that wasn’t hidebound by its antecedents. Their other credits show them to be extremely professional at working with other people’s ideas (having multi-season runs on in-progress shows, being attached to adaptations of novels and Mythbusters at pilot stage), and skimming some interview intros it looks like they sold their first original in 2013 to USA network, and various others to legacy broadcasters as large as CBS and streamers as prominent as Peacock, in the decade between then and Poker Face.

Given the endless flow of new ideas that all of TV puts into active production after purchasing spec pilots by middle-aged women these days, we can definitely conclude that they repeatedly became bums immediately after each of these.

apparently this got killed by one person:

"Gellar says it was one person who killed the project. “We had an executive on our show who was not only not a fan of the original, but was proud to constantly remind us that he had never seen the entirety of the series and how it wasn't for him."

https://people.com/sarah-michelle-gellar-reveals-what-killed-buffy-reboot-nobody-exclusive-11927330

and he just got promoted today. which legit sounds like a late-Friday axing was a deliberate fuck you before he was too busy to bother.

RIP Xander :(

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/03/20/entertainment/nicholas-brendon-buffy-star-death