It may irk us Old viewers, but I think they have to avoid sticking too slavishly to the repercussions of the last season, otherwise it’ll be far too alienating for kids jumping in. One slayer is plenty to be getting on with.
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Delve into the bigger stuff later on, but keep at least the first season unencumbered by LOOOOOOOORE. Basically go full eccleston-piper and then take it from there.
aug 8, 2025, 2:10 pm • 0 0 • view
Jinx I was just posting the same! You don't have to answer all the lore questions in s1. You just have to have them worked out. And I want six seasons and a movie baby.
aug 8, 2025, 2:11 pm • 2 0 • view
Ha! Great minds.
aug 8, 2025, 2:12 pm • 0 0 • view
I do think Nu Who is a good template in terms of levels of backstory. But since SMG is gonna be in it they do need that backstory carefully thought through so they can dripfeed it alongside whatever new slayer story they have.
aug 8, 2025, 2:14 pm • 1 0 • view
I reckon she’ll either have some kind of amnesia, a hand away to drip-feed the history back into the show, or she’s gone full get-off-my-lawn Skywalker and simply doesn’t want to talk.
aug 8, 2025, 2:17 pm • 1 0 • view
I think she'll be in a LOT of therapy whatever she's doing.
aug 8, 2025, 2:19 pm • 1 0 • view
jinx re Nu Who I mean
aug 8, 2025, 2:11 pm • 1 0 • view
People watched the 2005 Doctor Who show just fine without watching everything from 1963, it's the same as that - it doesn't have to be ABOUT continuity. But the continuity in the background adds richness. I think part of what's great about the potential (sorry) of this show is the heritage...
aug 8, 2025, 2:10 pm • 1 0 • view
...not "this girl is special and the first girl to be special" but this girl comes from a long line of women, a community of women even, embedded in what's gone before, she IS like other girls.
aug 8, 2025, 2:10 pm • 3 0 • view
I've deliberately avoided reading about the #buffyreboot, but I'm very wary-excited about it FOR THIS VERY REASON. I wish we could have new 'buffys' just like we have new Doctors Who. Different names, different cities, different personalities, different issues, but with some slayer continuity.
aug 8, 2025, 2:54 pm • 1 0 • view
I love speculating so much, it's part of the pleasure for me - ditto with Doctor Who. And yes. Newness, like Whoness can be.
aug 8, 2025, 2:56 pm • 1 0 • view
Whereas I think it'd be interesting to have the group dynamics of a group of "chosen ones." I am SO TIRED of the single person whose job is save the world let's get a community instead
aug 8, 2025, 2:30 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes: "A slayer with family and friends sure as hell wasn't in the brochure" or whatever the exact phrase was. Go beyond the scoobies to the wider community!
aug 8, 2025, 2:31 pm • 1 0 • view
And groups of slayers. I'd be very interested to see different versions--willing, unwilling, nerdy, sassy, with differently shaped families, from different cultures and heritages and how they jell/clash
aug 8, 2025, 2:35 pm • 2 0 • view
I'm less keen on lots of teenage slayers cos that would mean we're in a world where every slayer is a new line, and when each former potential dies, we get a new teenage slayer, which could get...out of hand quickly! But I'd love the potentials at being in the show at some point.
aug 8, 2025, 2:37 pm • 0 0 • view
...but isn't that the result of the spell anyway? Or is it more like random mutations now rather than lines?
aug 8, 2025, 2:39 pm • 1 0 • view
Also unclear how many potentials were awakened - how many there are in the world at any given time.
aug 8, 2025, 2:41 pm • 1 0 • view
If they don’t all grab onto each other and combine into a MegaSlayer I’m going to be very disappointed
aug 8, 2025, 2:51 pm • 1 0 • view
Children of the 80s UNITE
aug 8, 2025, 2:54 pm • 1 0 • view
Just realised there’s a LOT to explore in the whole “the slayer is always a young woman” thing.
aug 8, 2025, 2:56 pm • 1 0 • view
Unclear! They never said. I assumed at the time it meant that each slayer was a new line, but I think in terms of writing a tv show it would be just too many slayers (unless having lots more slayers meant a much higher survival rate ergo fewer activations). That'd work actually.
aug 8, 2025, 2:41 pm • 1 0 • view
Another option: every girl who has the potential to be a slayer awakes when the time comes without anyone dying. So it's like the slayer spell is always happening, and when you hit the right age, you awake.
aug 8, 2025, 2:43 pm • 1 0 • view
Or the right set of circumstances--i like this. Where a slayer is needed, one will rise
aug 8, 2025, 2:44 pm • 1 0 • view
cue 9 million slayers appearing in westminster to tackle the vampires there...
aug 8, 2025, 2:49 pm • 1 0 • view
Yep definitely a hellmouth right in that basement
aug 8, 2025, 2:52 pm • 1 0 • view
And also, you don't have to follow all of them everywhere at once!
aug 8, 2025, 2:43 pm • 1 0 • view
No true, as long as you can gesture to the various places in the world where slayers are operating. And explain how they do and don't work together. Still as a writer the idea of juggling it all makes me feel very tired lol
aug 8, 2025, 2:45 pm • 1 0 • view
That's why this is so fun 😂 for once in our lives we can just throw stuff in the air without any weight or consequence
aug 8, 2025, 2:50 pm • 0 0 • view
I have to feel the shape of a story to get excited about it. I can't think of a story that's done that kind of scale well while also being funny and light on its feet. Epic Scale can lead too quickly to MCU-ness.
aug 8, 2025, 2:55 pm • 1 0 • view
I thought it'd become randomised! 😂
aug 8, 2025, 2:42 pm • 0 0 • view
Also they need to deal w trans slayers as per HMRC
aug 8, 2025, 2:43 pm • 2 0 • view
YEPPPPPPPP
aug 8, 2025, 2:44 pm • 0 0 • view