Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Animated Series

Pretty good. The animation is great and some of the lines, like Xander's, would have fit pretty well into the show in its early seasons. Buffy herself, both the design and the voice, weren't exactly what I was hoping for, though. I know they weren't trying to use exact likenesses of the cast, but it would be nice if they could have put a little more of TV Buffy's vulnerability into animated Buffy. She's pretty much all snark and confidence here.

And what's with that line, "There are things in the dark. Dark things." I'm not sure if it's supposed to be intentionally lame or not.

But at any rate I wish this had happened. I would have watched it. Maybe at some point it actually will materialize. The Buffy TV show was based on a relatively old movie, so the animated series doesn't necessarily have to follow right after the show.
 
Pretty neat. It could fit on Toonami and give the girls something to watch. Old fans of the movie, tv show, and comics will tune in just to see if it's really "Buffy" and new fans might watch it as well.
 
Pretty nice, but the part with the dragon didn't work. I mean, Xander just saw Buffy being eaten and he makes a joke? I seriously doubt Xander would be that heartless. I also find it a little unbelievable that Buffy could lift open the mouth of a dragon like that. She's not that strong.
 
I think this looked promising, and would have much rather had season 8 be animated instead of in comic form.

To be totally honest, I would have LOVED to have seen a animated, night-time series for Fray!
 
I think that after Season's six and seven things got just a little too dark to fit in with a kid's cartoon lineup. Can you imagine callbacks to the Spuffy relationship, meaningless violent sex, rape attempts and all, on Saturday morning? How about recovering black magic addict lesbian murderer Willow? One-eyed Xander? Ennui-action Buffy? That's why they decided to go back to the first season, when things were cuter, several characters were less dead and people didn't rip each other's skin off so much.

I've decided to now live in a possibly delusional universe where this cartoon project will get picked up and made one day.
 
Say "hi" to the Browncoats there who think Firefly could make it as a TV series again while you're there :p.

I thought the clip was cute, but it took a second before I realized that it was turning back the clock to high school. I also thought that the intro sequence made Buffy look a lot less competent than she was, even if you believed she was luring the vamp into an alley to stake him quietly.

It also was really, really odd to see the Willow-Xander-Buffy chain of crushes again, considering everything that happened afterwards.

-- Ed
 
It's Giselle Loren. She also did the voices for two video games, one for the Xbox and one multiplatform. I think she does a good job but she really does not capture all the emotional nuances of the character the way Gellar did.

But, face it, Gellar is not coming back to Buffy, no way, no how. If we want new Buffy content we'll just have to get used to a new voice, and Loren's is better than most. Like we've seen, some people can't even tell the difference.

I don't interact with the Browncoats that much, except crossing paths in generalized Whedon-mania, but I do think their latest obsession leans more toward a second movie. I'm sure there are some on the fringe who want the show back, though.

Whedon fans seem to be prone to taking comfort in unrealistic optimism. Whether it's the resurrection of a favorite character, the continuation of a show the WB simply seemed to have it in for or the hope of revival of something long dead and buried, they want to believe. After all, Buffy did rise from the dead, both in a schlocky movie becomes a hit show way and a couple of times on the show.

My latest obsession is Doctor Horrible. I know, intellectualy, that in the real world it's small potatoes, but as a Whedon fan I'm amazed that people aren't running around in the streets proclaiming it the greatest thing ever.
 
It was intended for Fox Kids back when the idea came about, before they dropped lineup and sold out to 4Kids.

Now that Kid's WB is no more, and 4Kids is turning it into a graveyard for their other shows, I don't think it could work there. And with Toon Disney becoming Disney XD to appeal to boys, Jetix is right out.

I think the only place it *could* work is Nicktoons. Just let the producers have the dark edge that Invader Zim was allowed to get away with.
 
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