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By Chris Snellgrove | Published
Recently, the deadline broke what is already the most surprising news of the year: Sarah Michelle Gellar will return to lead a restart of his gender cult classic of the incredibly popular 90s Buffy The Vampire Slayer. The details about this remain scarce, although the description of this as “the next Buffyverse chapter” implies that it will be established in the same world as the original program. And that is a great part of why this Buffy Restart is destined to succeed: because a series that left the door open for a continuation will be developed.
Buffy’s restart plot after season 7
Some Buffy Fans do not love season 7, but the show-shopper of an end is a large part of why this restart will probably be a great success. The whole trick of the tradition of this universe was that only a murderer was active at the same time and blessed with all the power that comes with him. At the end of the series, Buffy managed to completely unleash this power, giving the “potential” the same set of low -level superpowers that he had used to defend Sunnydale from evil over the years.
While we do not know exactly in which direction the new program will take, it is a rather safe bet that Buffy is not the main character. In fact, it will surely be an observer figure for one or more advisors who need guidance. Thanks to the original Buffy Finale, this aspect of the restart would make sense because we know with certainty that this fictional world suddenly filled with young girls who, overnight, suddenly won powers that could transform them into heroes or villains. Anyway, that world will need Buffy’s veteran presence, the only murder with more experience than any of the rest.
Do not make Picard’s mistake
Assuming the Buffy The restart is in this way, it seems that it will have a better start than its closest analogue: Star Trek: Picard. That paramount+ show was also A rebirth of a beloved genre shows all loved in the 90s, and similarly placed its main character as an older mentor figure for a new generation of heroes. However, many trek fans hated That first season because it changed everything we love from Picard (including his hatred for turning androids into slaves) to turn it into this distant figure that suddenly needs to return to action to save the day.
Narratively speaking, that is an excellent way to return to a character returns to action, so it is a safe bet that the Buffy The restart will do that exactly for our favorite murderer. However, Buffy does not have to lose his ideals and his state as Picard did. Instead, she simply needs to be what it was at the end of the series: only a murderer in a world where hundreds or even thousands of others now share their powers.
It would be absolutely perfect if Buffy’s personality and morals remained the same, but he had to set up a flock in a new harvest of murderers who, in the language of Silicon Valley, just want to move quickly and break things. In any case, writers for the Buffy The restart has a lot of material to resort, including some murderous comics that are (at least) canonical. And if the program manages to hook other actors that return (none has still been confirmed), we can finally know if Buffy ended with Angel, Spike or someone completely (although it is Riley, the Fandom can be motivated).
This buffy fan has hope
Like a great Buffy The Vampire Slayer Fan of my adolescence (I joined Mail lists To receive VHS recordings before my city finally obtained WB!), I have great hope for this restart. That is significant because I have seen other revivations such as PHISY fail and have seen Picard He almost destroys the legacy of his main character before hitting his landing with his last season. The world of television reset is, frankly, a kind of apocalypse at this time, but who better than Buffy Summers to navigate and save the world once again?
Fountain: Deadline
