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When we tell our kids about Buffy The Vampire Slayer, they simply won’t believe us. In a couple of years’ time, the show will be 30 years old. It gave the world Joss Whedon, Sarah Michelle Gellar, and Alyson Hannigan.
Based on a little-regarded movie from 1992, it was such a “thing” back in the late 1990s and early 2000s, but looking back on it now the whole thing doesn’t quite seem real. It was a simpler time. A better time. Back when it was first broadcast, there was no such thing as Google. We used dial-up and Yahoo to search, or a free AOL CD-ROM. There was no Facebook. Social media was yet to poison the world.
The 1990s really did look like this.
Of course, it has forever been the subject of rumors about a reboot, or a sequel show. One person who always said no to this was star Sarah Michelle Gellar, who considered it all very much a product of its time.
However, while out promoting Dexter: Original Sin this week, Gellar was on The Drew Barrymore show and her stance seeed to have softened. She said::
It’s funny, I always used to say no, because it’s in its bubble and it’s so perfect. But watching ‘Sex and the City’ and seeing ‘Dexter’, and realizing there are ways to do it, definitely does get your mind thinking, ‘Well, maybe.’”
She went on to say:
It’s a universe. And it makes you realize that in this world, we need those heroes, I think, more so than ever.”
Buffy The Vampire Slayer has long been held up as a feminist icon and empowerment role model for young girls of the time. It formed part of that wave back in that period of shows like Charmed, Xena: Warrior Princess, Dark Angel, and Alias.
There was talk as recently as 2018 about a reboot where the driving force was entirely, of course, simply race swapping the character. That project failed to materialise.
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