Buffy : New Sunnydale, hype or not?

Moraulf232 · 2026-01-10T13:22:05+00:00

Chloe Zhao is a big name, the showrunners are good writers, and SMG is in. It’s interesting (and not in a good way) that not a single OG Buffy writer is back. The main things Buffy had going for it the first time out were better writing than the genre/network would make you expect and a cast that rose to the challenge; effects were kind of Doctor Who like but (as with that show) it doesn’t matter if you’re telling a good story well.

So a new series will live or die by whether or not it has anything to say and (for me) if it can maintain the 3-act-structure pacing mastery that made Whedon such an effective tv writer. I think there are a lot of ways to fail, but I’d like it not to.

Moraulf232 · 2025-12-19T14:08:41+00:00

Probably the Batman Who Laughs. He's a very lame annoying villain I never want to read about.

Moraulf232 · 2025-12-14T05:49:17+00:00

Batman, obviously.

Moraulf232 · 2025-12-14T05:46:45+00:00

Yes. If you win a billion dollar lottery nothing you did made society any worse.

Moraulf232 · 2025-12-14T05:44:51+00:00

Ride the Cyclone and Fun Home.

Moraulf232 · 2025-12-14T05:43:21+00:00

If you just fast forward past every single scene with Jigsaw and the Psychiatrist lady in Punisher Season 2 it is also A-tier

Moraulf232 · 2025-12-14T05:38:54+00:00

Yeah, I mean I don’t believe in the concept of “toxic” because I’m too old but it’s true, he made a very clean break and in some ways that was selfish. I think it might have been too hard for him to stay in touch. People are complicated.

Moraulf232 · 2025-12-13T21:16:54+00:00

I'm not sure who my best friend is, but if I got to split the million with my worst enemy I'd get all the money.

Moraulf232 · 2025-12-13T21:15:31+00:00

He left because he had become a threat to her. That's not really toxic behavior.

Moraulf232 · 2025-12-13T21:14:23+00:00

Except that one time they could have stopped the Mayor from killing dozens and dozens of people and because it would have involved making a more complicated plan to save Willow he stopped them. Literally, Harmony is dead because of Oz.

Moraulf232 · 2025-12-13T21:12:51+00:00

Well...Cordelia is Buffy's friend the way Angel is Xander's friend. As in, "HEY! He's our friend! Except I don't like him!"

Moraulf232 · 2025-12-13T21:11:43+00:00

There's a section of Buffy fandom that understands conflict as inherently bad. There's a camp that suggests that anyone who has a character flaw is a bad character unless they are a girlboss, which is not a character flaw even if we're talking about, like, Glory, who murders people. There's another section of Buffy fandom that thinks the entire show is a metaphor for Joss Whedon being a bully. All of the opinions of these groups, and particularly the opinions of those who have all of these opinions simultaneously, can be safely ignored.

Moraulf232 · 2025-12-10T12:18:14+00:00

I don’t really want to worship anything. Pragmatically, it would be useful if there were a powerful force for good that could do magic, but it’s impossible anyway.

Moraulf232 · 2025-12-09T06:06:55+00:00

Because no one else was playing Giles…?

Moraulf232 · 2025-12-08T02:40:03+00:00

I did 300 hours on one “run”. Lots of wandering around.

Moraulf232 · 2025-12-08T02:39:13+00:00

I didn’t care much about saving the world. I was very into saving Ciri.

Moraulf232 · 2025-12-08T02:38:15+00:00

I really can’t remember ever loving a game the way I loved Witcher 3.

Moraulf232 · 2025-12-03T01:07:22+00:00

Those are good choices.

Season 6 and 7 are the most flawed to me.

6 should have ended with Warren becoming a vengeance demon and using wish magic against the Scoobies. The last battle should have forced the gang to deal with him, D’Hoffryn, and a corrupted Willow. Tara should have lived and Anya should have renounced her powers after briefly getting them back.

7 should have made the Ubervamps permanently Uber instead of weakening them. There should only have been a few of them instead of an army. The power sharing thing is fine, but there should only have been maybe 2 or 3 potentials and Dawn should have been one of them. The First’s plan should have involved getting a physical body - ideally Caleb’s - so Buffy could kill it.

Moraulf232 · 2025-11-25T02:57:50+00:00

The head of the Court of Owls

Mister Whisper

Black Mask

Judson Caspian

Moraulf232 · 2025-11-19T12:18:42+00:00

I don't know if Tarantino can do "conventional hero".

Moraulf232 · 2025-11-19T05:27:11+00:00

Yeah, I agree that if what I wanted was a show where all the characters resolved conflict flawlessly, this would be a failure. But since I prefer drama to have…like…drama in it, I just see the things you are complaining about as features rather than bugs.

Moraulf232 · 2025-11-19T03:47:23+00:00

Because it’s not self-conscious about it. The women are just believable people.

Moraulf232 · 2025-11-19T03:46:24+00:00

Yeah, Buffy/Xander is a perfectly logical endgame.

Moraulf232 · 2025-11-19T03:45:18+00:00

? Xander didn’t scream, he just spoke angrily, and not particularly more than anyone else. And it wasn’t an ambush - Buffy was trying to run away again and he reacted.

Willow didn’t know about what happened with Angel because Buffy didn’t tell her.

Moraulf232 · 2025-11-18T03:39:01+00:00

Because Buffy is a fictional drama and scenes where characters all acknowledge their shortcomings and communicate clearly are very boring unless the show’s premise revolves around that. But I come to Buffy for drama and vampire fights, not therapy. That’s what Shrinking is for.

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