It seems like everything is being revived these days. Gilmore Girls. Prison Break. Will & Grace.
The Scooby gang is back together for the first time in more than a decade.
It seems like everything is being revived these days. Gilmore Girls. Prison Break. Will & Grace.
So what are the chances of Buffy the Vampire Slayer being brought back to life? If you ask the cast, they’re divided.
Alyson Hannigan: “I think we should do the Buffy cartoon.”
James Marsters: “I think if Joss is helming it, then hell yeah. If not, then hell no.”
Charisma Carpenter: “I think the fans would just go crazy if something like that would happen. It would just make so many people happy.”
Sarah Michelle Gellar: “At a certain point, when things are magical, you don’t want to go back and Godfather III it—right?” jokes Gellar. “I’m sure the fans are incredibly disappointed to hear that answer, but I think they’d be more disappointed if we created something and it didn’t live up to the expectation because the expectation is so incredibly high. And I love that it can live in comic form and graphic novels. There are so many worlds it can live in.”
But don’t give up hope, Buffy fans: Creator Joss Whedon still seems to think there’s story potential.
“Everything sort of finds its way back somewhere,” he says. “I’ve been trying deliberately to move forward and do something a little bit different. But yeah, the great thing is everybody looks great, and the other great thing is the show is about growing up. If we did it with these guys, they’d be the age they basically are. They’d probably play a little younger because they can do that. But yeah, you’d see somebody going through their life at a different stage. It wouldn’t be like, ‘I can’t believe we’re still in high school! I wear Depends!’”
There’s one season in Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s seven-year run that divides its fandom: season 6. This was the year that creator Joss Whedon stepped away as showrunner (executive producer Marti Noxon took over the duties while Whedon remained an EP), the show moved from The WB to UPN due to budget issues, and the tone of Buffy became quite bleak. Tara (Amber Benson) was killed and sent Willow (Alyson Hannigan) down a path of vengeance and dark magic. Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) entered a relationship with Spike (James Marsters) that ended with him nearly raping her.
Much as there are fans and detractors of the season, the Buffy team also has a differing of opinions. “I’ve always said that season 6 was not my favorite,” says Gellar. “I felt it betrayed who she was. Even just getting to talk to Joss and be able to get his opinion was not as easy when he’s not upstairs. He had three shows. He had Angel and Firefly so that was hard. But he made sure to dedicate the time to season 7 and that was his promise to me: that we would right all the wrongs and he kept that promise.”
Whedon, on the other hand, is proud of what the season showed and felt that it was representative of a theme the show tackled often: power. “I love season 6,” he says. “Marti and I wanted to talk about an unhealthy relationship. It was borderline abusive until it actually became abusive. It was on both sides. It wasn’t just that she was with someone dark—she found the darkness within herself. This has to do with the consequences of power.”
– Compiled from Entertainment Weekly
