She’s coming back and Sarah Michelle Gellar is finally talking about the new series of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and giving us an idea of what we can expect from the Slayer’s return.
“It will be lighter than the last few seasons of the original. We will try to find a balance between new and old characters. My dream is to bring back everyone who has died, but space will have to be made for new stories as well,” Gellar says, referring to the original series’ final couple of seasons when the series got a lot darker as Buffy died (for real) and came back, disrupting the Slayer line and revealling that she never wanted to be resurected; it also had Buffy and the team save the world one last time, with several major characters dying in the final moments, laying down their lives to close the Hallmouth once and for all.
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It was a great way to end the show but for fans who had been there since the start, it was a rollercoaster of emotions.
She goes on: “We’re trying to figure out how to modernize the themes of the series, especially what it means to feel like an outsider in a world dominated by social media. What we want to explore are the space-time boundaries that affect society today.”
Of course, saying she wants to bring everyone back doesn’t mean that suddenly everyone is dead, after all, Buffy has a history of visions, ghosts and flashbacks, so there are a million ways to bring back faces long gone, something similar perhaps to what Dexter Resurrection is planning on doing as Dexter sees and hears long gone characters as he awakes from a coma?
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Whatever happens, I am very excited to see what the show is, although I can’t lie, with what has happened so many franchises I love dearly in recent years, I am worried about the possibility that we could be on the verge of another Doctor Who… but I hope not.
Thoughts? Are you excited for the return of Buffy Summers? I want to know what you all think…
Meanwhile, Gellar is hitting the gym to get into Buffy shape!
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Source: Vanity Fair
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