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Dec. 10th, 2022 09:13 pm1. Hmm...in August 2022, The Buffy Reboot was officially put on Pause or Cancelled
Most likely because of Whedon. Honestly? I don't think they should reboot it. Shows that should not be rebooted - Buffy, Angel, Vampire Diaries, Star Trek, Star Wars (movies), Hill Street Blues, Seinfield, Friends, West Wing, MASH - do not reboot the classics folks, it's stupid. Particularly shows with huge fandoms associated with them. I'm not sure they could reboot Firefly...
2. Tim Burton's NETFLIX series "Wednesday"
"I've always despised the phrase 'write what you know' - its an excuse for the imagination impaired." - Wednesday. (I love that quote).
It has the best one-liners. And the actress playing Wednesday is amazing.
Also we have Gwen Christie as headmaster. (Game of Thrones really changed that actress's life, didn't it?)
Anyhow, the plot is not great. They fall into a lot of cliches, and the mystery right now is fairly predictable. Also we have the whole evil witch trail setup that has been done to death, along with the evil Pilgrims.
And, there's a scene between Morticia and the Mayor, where she states : "men like you have no idea what it is like not to believed..." which would have worked better if the Mayor wasn't a Black man, and Morticia wasn't Catherine Zeta-Jones.
However, the kids are great. And so is the production, and the one liners.
3. James Marsters is adorable in Comic Con Q&A videos. The man loves She-Hulk and Ms. Marvel, doesn't understand why Buffy would fall for him or Spike, and is nerdy. Every once and a while I find myself sucked into watching his Q&A comic con videos on youtube. He genuinely adores his fans, adores conventions, and adores the things his fans are into. Also he's very giving to the people he shares the stage with. I don't know what he's like outside of that - but he is adorable at those conventions, and comes across as honest and genuine and self-effacing. He definitely knows how to work a room.
I was thinking about this today...and of the television shows and media I've been obsessed with - which is wide ranging, and the fandoms I've flirted with, Buffy is still my favorite fandom. I don't really know why - I think because it was so broad and diversified?
ETA: Per one of these Panel Q&A - Apparently in Angel - during the filming of Lullaby, when they were filming in an alleyway - the tenants in the buildings above them got annoyed and tossed buckets of urine on them. So Julie Benze was lying in urine while pretending to give birth?
4. Finished watching all of Monarch - it's sad, but the Country Music Drama NASHVILLE was much better written and plotted. Monarch doesn't quite work - the plotting is off. It's just not built well. There's a lot of things that happen in the last two episodes that fall flat. I don't care about the characters that much, and I'm not that invested. They didn't build the situations in a way that I would be. And certain items seemed to come out of the blue. Also, the writers, unlike with Nashville, didn't do a good job of threading in the music and building the drama from the music. It felt too much like a poorly plotted and somewhat contrived family melodrama with music as the backdrop, not the driving force behind it. Nashville had music driving the plot more.
At any rate, I'll be surprised if it gets a second season. It kind of fell flat. Shame it had some talent behind it.
5. Shows in the Queue:
* White Lotus (rec'd by brother and Wales) - HBO Max
* English (rec'd by brother and mother) Amazon
* Strange New Worlds (Paramount) - rec'd by folks online
* Our Flag Means Death - HBO Max (folks online)
* It's a Sin - HBO Max (folks online)
* Midnight Club (Netflix)
* Severance (finish it - Apple TV)
* Barry (HBO Max - saw everything but this season)
* Picard (finish - Paramount)
* Interview with the Vampire (finish - AMC DVR)
* 1889 (I think Netflix?)
There are too many television shows. I'm losing track of them. And the critical lists confuse me. I've entered a world in which we actually have too much creative content. And I wonder sometimes why I feel driven to create more (in the novel variety).
Most likely because of Whedon. Honestly? I don't think they should reboot it. Shows that should not be rebooted - Buffy, Angel, Vampire Diaries, Star Trek, Star Wars (movies), Hill Street Blues, Seinfield, Friends, West Wing, MASH - do not reboot the classics folks, it's stupid. Particularly shows with huge fandoms associated with them. I'm not sure they could reboot Firefly...
2. Tim Burton's NETFLIX series "Wednesday"
"I've always despised the phrase 'write what you know' - its an excuse for the imagination impaired." - Wednesday. (I love that quote).
It has the best one-liners. And the actress playing Wednesday is amazing.
Also we have Gwen Christie as headmaster. (Game of Thrones really changed that actress's life, didn't it?)
Anyhow, the plot is not great. They fall into a lot of cliches, and the mystery right now is fairly predictable. Also we have the whole evil witch trail setup that has been done to death, along with the evil Pilgrims.
And, there's a scene between Morticia and the Mayor, where she states : "men like you have no idea what it is like not to believed..." which would have worked better if the Mayor wasn't a Black man, and Morticia wasn't Catherine Zeta-Jones.
However, the kids are great. And so is the production, and the one liners.
3. James Marsters is adorable in Comic Con Q&A videos. The man loves She-Hulk and Ms. Marvel, doesn't understand why Buffy would fall for him or Spike, and is nerdy. Every once and a while I find myself sucked into watching his Q&A comic con videos on youtube. He genuinely adores his fans, adores conventions, and adores the things his fans are into. Also he's very giving to the people he shares the stage with. I don't know what he's like outside of that - but he is adorable at those conventions, and comes across as honest and genuine and self-effacing. He definitely knows how to work a room.
I was thinking about this today...and of the television shows and media I've been obsessed with - which is wide ranging, and the fandoms I've flirted with, Buffy is still my favorite fandom. I don't really know why - I think because it was so broad and diversified?
ETA: Per one of these Panel Q&A - Apparently in Angel - during the filming of Lullaby, when they were filming in an alleyway - the tenants in the buildings above them got annoyed and tossed buckets of urine on them. So Julie Benze was lying in urine while pretending to give birth?
4. Finished watching all of Monarch - it's sad, but the Country Music Drama NASHVILLE was much better written and plotted. Monarch doesn't quite work - the plotting is off. It's just not built well. There's a lot of things that happen in the last two episodes that fall flat. I don't care about the characters that much, and I'm not that invested. They didn't build the situations in a way that I would be. And certain items seemed to come out of the blue. Also, the writers, unlike with Nashville, didn't do a good job of threading in the music and building the drama from the music. It felt too much like a poorly plotted and somewhat contrived family melodrama with music as the backdrop, not the driving force behind it. Nashville had music driving the plot more.
At any rate, I'll be surprised if it gets a second season. It kind of fell flat. Shame it had some talent behind it.
5. Shows in the Queue:
* White Lotus (rec'd by brother and Wales) - HBO Max
* English (rec'd by brother and mother) Amazon
* Strange New Worlds (Paramount) - rec'd by folks online
* Our Flag Means Death - HBO Max (folks online)
* It's a Sin - HBO Max (folks online)
* Midnight Club (Netflix)
* Severance (finish it - Apple TV)
* Barry (HBO Max - saw everything but this season)
* Picard (finish - Paramount)
* Interview with the Vampire (finish - AMC DVR)
* 1889 (I think Netflix?)
There are too many television shows. I'm losing track of them. And the critical lists confuse me. I've entered a world in which we actually have too much creative content. And I wonder sometimes why I feel driven to create more (in the novel variety).