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10 Arbitrary Personal Mandates for A Buffy Reboot I’ve Thought About for The Last 20 Years
Every now and then there is a rumor that Buffy the Vampire Slayer will be rebooted. Once it was going to be a cartoon. Once, it was going to be a movie (again).
Once it was actually a comic book, which I somehow still didn’t read even though Buffy had a relationship with a girl and it was my loneliest year of high school, which says a lot about the caliber of that comic book.
Now there’s is another rumor of a Buffy reboot (though actually it sounds like it instead might be a sequel?).
After wasting years of my life reading Buffy academic theory, fanfiction, and occasionally watching the actual show, I feel uniquely qualified to share my completely arbitrary and unrelated mandates on what a 2018 Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot should look like. They are as follows:
- Angelus would be really into Twitter.
Just to be clear, only Angelus would be into Twitter, not Angel.
Angel would be one of those people who accidentally takes pictures of the inside of his pockets with his phone AND somehow also…