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Buffy the Vampire Slayer Reboot Showrunner Speaks Out About Fan Backlash

Perhaps you'll recall the news that broke in the middle of SDCC this year that the much-beloved tv series Buffy the Vampire Slayer was getting a reboot. This was met pretty immediately with skepticism on the part of "why?" and also "no, but really, why?"

The original news also included mention of Monica Owusu-Breen taking the role of showrunner for the reboot, followed by the news that a woman of color would be in the lead role. Because apparently no one remembers Kendra the Slayer.

Online response was quick, from varying degrees of pleasant "okay, fine, maybe this won't suck" to deplorable those kinds of comments about race that we will not be repeating, because there is no place for those thoughts here.

Owusu-Breen took to her twitter account to address some of the issues, in a statement of sorts:

"For some genre writers it's Star Wars. Buffy the Vampire Slayer is my Star Wars. Before I became a writer, I was a fan. For seven seasons, I watched Buffy Summers grow up, find love, kill that love. I watched her fight, and struggle and slay," she wrote. "There is only one Buffy. One Xander, one Willow, Giles, Cordelia, Oz, Tara, Kendra, Faith, Spike, Angel … They can't be replaced. Joss Whedon's brilliant and beautiful series can't be replicated. I wouldn't try to. But here we are, 20 years later … and the world seems a lot scarier. So maybe, it could be time to meet a new Slayer … And that's all I can say."

That said, it's worth mentioning also that original series creator and helmer Joss Whedon is set to be involved in an executive producer position, but how much influence he'll have over the resulting show is unknown.

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