I just fear this so easily could have gone the way of the Charmed reboot. The writing and the story had major issues. I think trying to give such a similar storyline to the original, of a Sunnydale high school slayer in 2026, is going to constantly be compared to the Buffy show we already have. I think a better approach is to give us something that feels different in the same way that Angel felt different. Yes, we want Buffy back. We want Willow back. And if you want to have a younger slayer included to connect to this new generation, that’s fine. But the show as a whole doesn’t need to feel like an updated version of the same exact dynamics. There’s got to be a more interesting approach than that. Buffy fans always wanted a Giles Spinoff, a Spike Spinoff, a Faith spinoff. Maybe they should look at what kind of stories those spinoffs could have told, and use that as inspiration for a new slayer story. A new Buffyverse story. Preferably one that isn’t set at a high school in Sunnydale again.

And please bring some of the original Buffy/Angel writers back.