Buffy #39 and mishandling fictional death

Fiction that is afraid to take chances is generally not worth taking the chance to read. This is a sentiment I have taken to heart after reading many of the commentaries by Harlan Ellison in both of his Glass Teat collections as well as his collection called Watching. Fiction is supposed to push the reader. Fiction is supposed to make the reader feel something. Feeling good is not the only sort of feeling that matters, nor is a completely positive outcome the only way to resolve a tale. Sometimes sacrifices need to be made.

“Let me put down my frappuccino and talk about genre”

Let Me In director reveals what he kept and what he cut from the vampire classic.

The above link is to an io9 interview with the director of Let Me In, the American remake of Let the Right One In. The article is fine and makes me look even more forward to the film. I enjoyed the original, and there was little chance I would not see it. It is a vampire romance with kids in a depressing setting. What can go wrong?

re: Rape and Pillage – Buffy fans get a Re-Boot in their asses!

As someone who willingly watched the entirety of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its far superior spin-off, Angel, I have to quickly say that Buffy fans have already experienced the mishandling of their beloved show. The comics predating Season Eight are horrid abominations. Hell, Season 7 of the series proper is like watching something you love slowly fall apart until it becomes what you thought it was in name only.

I actually don’t expect to see anything come of this anytime soon. If they do get it off the ground, they should do it the right way. Be more true to Whedon’s intentions than Whedon himself could be in his incredibly homogenized world. He said that Buffy and her gang were supposed to represent the social minorities in school, so maybe Buffy should be black this time around.

Rape and Pillage – Buffy fans get a Re-Boot in their asses!

Industry sources report that a re-make of Buffy: The Vampire Slayer is in the works courtesy of Roy Lee and Doug Davison of Vertigo Entertainment.

What? No Joss Whedon?

That’s right Scoobies, the mastermind that made Buffy the television phenom all that it was is, as of this date, not being sought for this project. Instead, the directing and producing team that made the theatrical version such a cultural touch point for how to take a good idea and totally ruin through sheer incompetence are being given the chance to show us, once again, how little they understand about making a movie out of an interesting premise.

So I say, with no puns intended, Suck it Buffy fans! It’s your turn to know what it feels like to have something you love run through the ringer and stripped of everything you felt made it special. Old School BSG and Star Trek fans can now sit back and laugh as you younger pop culture nerds and so-called “cool geeks” turn yourselves inside out over what’s going to be done to your precious Buffy-verse.

Oh, I savor the sweet savagery.

Hey, I made it through an entire post without cursing. Fucking sweet!

Aw, gods damnit!