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Post by xmadxscientistx on Sept 3, 2008 23:19:03 GMT -5
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Post by xmadxscientistx on Sept 3, 2008 22:39:00 GMT -5
I don't know about you guys, but I never want to see geriatric Buffy. Centenarian Buffy the Vampire Slayer sounds like a direct affront to the memory I have of Buffy. Unless they have extremely advanced digital technology that allows them to have rendered versions of Spike and Angel. Because, you know, immortality. Although if they could do that, they should just CGI Buffy too.
But like it or not, my predictions are my predictions. They're not wishes, they're just the way I've seen the market go.
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Post by xmadxscientistx on Sept 3, 2008 22:27:08 GMT -5
Check out this company's free game, it's pretty nifty. www.mv-places.com/download.htmlI caught up with one of the employees today, and having spoken to her and seen the beautiful design they've done on their free Places game, I think we can trust them. I can definitely see this company making a great Buffy world to play in. The movements of these characters and the color and style are excellent. I'm hoping we'll get vampires, slayers, and witches as PCs and Watchers and Master/Draculaesque vampires as quest givers. We'll have to see what they decide to do with them.
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Post by xmadxscientistx on Sept 3, 2008 16:12:19 GMT -5
madscientist, i miss your point. I believe that in the buffyverse, there is a lot of alternative universes, and perhaps Fray will become one of those in case Buffy comes home and changes the future the right way, so that fray and dark wilow never happens. But i don't get the other half of what your saying. Do you think the Willow in the future already is from an alternate universe? The very fact that we see this at all makes it likely that this will never happen, and thus it will become an alternate universe.
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Post by xmadxscientistx on Sept 3, 2008 16:01:27 GMT -5
If this one is successful, I hope they'll do other games for the DS. Because portable Buffy? Heck yes!
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Post by xmadxscientistx on Sept 3, 2008 15:51:22 GMT -5
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WHAT DID I TELL YOU GUYS! This is my big I told you so. I suggested something happen like this back when we were discussing Buffy video games that should happen. I am freaking psychic.
Anyway, best news I've had all week! Wish this could have been announced at Dragon*Con or something.
A Buffyverse MMO in Beta testing... JESUS.
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Post by xmadxscientistx on Aug 17, 2008 0:04:50 GMT -5
I'd love for some Slay Alive guys to come see me! I play a fan based podcast version of Willow. It's going to be a great show. I'm also going to be participating in this Dr. Horrible sing along.
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Post by xmadxscientistx on Aug 16, 2008 23:56:43 GMT -5
...except for that one time.
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Post by xmadxscientistx on Aug 14, 2008 4:25:25 GMT -5
Those predictions are pretty good, but I doubt there will be that many remakes of the show in the future. I can see the film reboot for the franchise with new actors (because that's already happening with Johnny Depp for a 60s soap called "Dark Shadows") which might lead to a sequel and possibly a television series. Or it could be the other way around--a tv series reboot is started and from that a movie is made. But I don't think that there will be numerous reboots like there was with Dark Shadows (a 1991 12-episode series was made, then canceled due to poor rating because of the Gulf War coverage; and a 2004 pilot was ordered by the WB network only to not be picked up for the fall season.) My predictions here are strongly rooted in what happened with Dark Shadows/Star Trek/Movies from the 60's and 70's. There seems to be a definate pattern to how cult series come back time and again.
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Post by xmadxscientistx on Aug 12, 2008 14:46:37 GMT -5
Today is Tuesday, August 12, 2008.
Here are my predictions for the Buffyverse.
The comic books will continue for another five years, until Joss is too busy to oversee much and the comics have left cannon. We will continue to get comics as long as we buy them, but they won't be as exciting as Season 8 or After the Fall because they won't have Joss's cannon stamp.
Dr. Horrible will become a pop culture icon, and will possibly get a full length big screen film.
We will never get our Ripper movie, and we will eventually give up. We'll be sad about it, but after a certain point, optimism will proove moot. Until...
Ten years from now, Fox will decide to reboot Buffy in a 12 episode miniseries. It will flop, but we'll find it kind of oddly interesting.
Twenty years from now, the Johnny Depp of the day will come out that he's always wanted to play Angel, and because he's enormously popular and more than slightly rich, there will be a modern Buffy movie. We, the old fans, will come out in droves and have mixed feelings about it, but over all we'll be happy to see Buffy again.
The success of the film cues another revival series within five years. This version will be much better than the 2018 version. Not as good as the original, but still much better than anything else on TV at the time. The new show goes on for five years and has two big screen sequels.
30 years from now, another new series will start, based on Buffy's world but with another Slayer as the main character. This version is very popular with a brand new bunch of fans.
35 years from now, the series will die again, but still be very popular.
40 years from now, most of the actors we liked from the show will either have died or be very old. The ones who are left do a radio show, straight to datafile version of the original show, which is pretty entertaining to the diehard fans that are left.
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Post by xmadxscientistx on Aug 12, 2008 14:22:38 GMT -5
Yeah, the same is true with my varient cover. Sorta between the two.
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Post by xmadxscientistx on Aug 12, 2008 3:44:17 GMT -5
Would you come to Dragon*Con if I promised not to make you sign 42 books and say I don't like your comics for not having a long drawn out alleyway fight scene? Pleeeeeaaaase?
Eh, well. We never get the cool guys. Stupid San Diego Comic Con.
Anyway, thanks for the great comics and for the interview.
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Post by xmadxscientistx on Aug 12, 2008 3:15:03 GMT -5
It's silly for time not to matter. I get that that happens with comics, but man, seems to me that this is at least a little imporant. Part of why I don't follow Angel comics is because I have no idea how it lines up with season 8.
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Post by xmadxscientistx on Aug 12, 2008 3:04:36 GMT -5
I voted for other so I can be right. I don't think any of these guys are going to show up, but if i could have what I want, I'd like a fanged four flashback or a little look at what heaven is like in Buffy's world, where in lie Anya, Cordy, Darla, and Jenny.
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Post by xmadxscientistx on Aug 12, 2008 2:59:51 GMT -5
I'm actually thinking this will happen. And if it happens the right way, I'm all for it. It's got to be in a fancy frame for me to appreciate it.
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Post by xmadxscientistx on Aug 12, 2008 2:50:34 GMT -5
To better understand Twilight, I've made this comparitive guide to his similarities to another Dark Lord.
Similarities:
Voldemort = He who shall not be named. Twilight = He who cannot currently be named.
Voldemort = Followers take a symbolic tattoo representing his background and his vision. Twilight = Followers take a symbolic tattoo representing their loyalty and his vision.
Voldemort = Followers are magical folk, including witches, giants, zombies, and other magical evils. Twilight = Followers are magical folk, including witches, watchers, slayers, zombies (through amy), giant robots (through the Tokyo vampires), and other magical evils.
Voldemort = Vision is a world without nonmagical people. Twilight = Vision is a world without magic.
Voldemort = Followers are almost entirely in it for their own pitiful reasons, which include desire for power, fear, and prejudice. Twilight = Followers are almost entirely in it for their own pitiful reasons, which include desire for power, fear, and revenge.
Voldemort = Enemies are a ragtag group, mostly made up of teenagers, whose main strength is their concern for one another. Twilight = Enemies are a ragtag group, mostly made up of teenage girls, whose main strength is their concern for one another.
Voldemort = A powerful near imortal. Twilight = ?
Voldemort = Can fly. Twilight = Can fly.
Voldemort = A ruthless killer. Twilight = ?
Voldemort = Knew a few of the secondary characters before the start of the first book. Twilight = ?
Anybody else see any notable parallels?
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Post by xmadxscientistx on Aug 12, 2008 2:22:25 GMT -5
You're all wrong. I know the true identity of Twillight!1111
It is one of the following:
Neil Patrick Harris - Not playing a character. Neil Patrick Harris, himself, is Twillight.
Larry - Yeah, he's dead. Not like that stopped Warren.
Warren - The gut bag we see is actually a robot.
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Post by xmadxscientistx on Aug 12, 2008 2:12:01 GMT -5
Yeah, I'm not really digging the varient. And usually I prefer the varients to the main covers.
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Post by xmadxscientistx on Aug 12, 2008 2:00:14 GMT -5
Okay, you all know my original view. Having read the book, I retained it.
Until a couple of days later, when I realized what I'd actually seen.
Alternate Universe Theory (as I like to call it) is essentually what fanfiction is based on. Hear me out, I'm not saying the comics are anything like fanfics, but this is not without precedent in the Buffyverse. The theory is that there are many unknown universe, and in any place where more than one action can be taken, alternate universes are created based on the road not taken. Thus, infinate universes based on one thread.
The precedent here is The Wishverse. We know it's still there, because at the end of Dopplegangland, we saw what happened to Vampire Willow when they sent her back. The very fact there was a back to send her to proves that within Buffy, parallel universes can and do exist.
The Willow we're looking at now is the punchline to Ebenezer Buffy's guided tour by the Ghost of Christmas Future.
She's not Dark Willow of season 6, if she were she'd do things very differently than she seems to be doing now. This is a brand new alternate universe Willow. Yes, she's from a different place in the timeline, but that's not all there is to her. Something made her this way, she has something she's trying to do.
We're not having a flashback to what I've always thought was a dull season, we're looking out the window at another world.
I've never liked Fray, because it's just not Buffy, but...
This Willow is kinda striking a new chord with me. Yes, this is in retrospect of having read the issue and not quite processed it the required way for liking her, but...
We're looking at a Helena Boheme Carter-esque (Think Bellatrix Lestrange in the Harry Potter films) interpretation of Willow having come through an age and grown weary of it.
I think I could come to like it. We'll have to see what the rest of the arch is like.
Also, purple looks good on her.
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Post by xmadxscientistx on Aug 12, 2008 0:27:11 GMT -5
Somebody got their wish.
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