Man vänjer sig.

So... Fran Rubel Kuzui and Kaz Kuzui have announced that they are working on a remake (or reboot, or reimagining, or regurgitation, or whatever word prefixed with "re-" you want to call it this week) of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie. It won't have anything to do with the TV series or the canon comics, it won't take place in the Buffyverse as we know it, and Joss Whedon will not be involved.

This is either a stroke of genius, or, rather more likely, a breathtakingly stupid idea. It does have every chance of removing absolutely everything that made the series so brilliant. (I haven't seen the movie, so I can't say anything about that.)

From jophan:

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More weird dreams tonight: I somehow ended up in Buffy season 8. What with the sudden lack of a Sunnydale, the whole show had relocated to Stockholm (don't ask me why, it probably seemed like a good idea at the time). The funny thing is that I was not involved in the production, but in the plot. My role, I'm afraid, was not that of a Marty Stu — quite the opposite, in fact, as I just got in the way and pissed everyone off; even the vamps wanted nothing to do with me and weren't even interested in me as food, not for a big clock. I never found out exactly where the Hellmouth was located, but I suspect it's somewhere in Gallerian, which would explain a lot.

Maybe I should watch something else for a while. It is safe to say, though, that if a TV show starts figuring in my dreams, it has made quite an impression on me.

Today, thette visited me for a brief introduction into the world of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. We watched the following episodes:

1:12 Prophecy Girl
2:14 Innocence
2:22 Becoming part II
3:9 The Wish
3:16 Doppelgängland
4:10 Hush [genuinely scary in parts!]
4:22 Restless

Most of it was very good, and parts of it even brilliant. After several of my friends whose judgement I trust have talked at some length about how brilliant this series is, I have finally been converted. I have a long viewing ahead of me, it seems...

(Also, I found a videotape today, with the film titles Mitt liv som hund and Mannen som slutade röka in a hand I don't recognise. I'm buggered if I know where it came from and how it ended up with me; I even find it a bit creepy, and suspect there is some kind of gnome coming into people's homes at night to drop off strange VHS tapes on their bedroom floors. While less likely, this theory is more emotionally satisfying than "I borrowed this tape from someone last year but forgot from whom, what with my memory being slightly worse than that of your everyday goldfish".)