Post by Shishkarobb on May 18, 2007 10:32:27 GMT -5
From IGN.com- "Top 10 TV Spin-Offs IGN TV Wants to See"
Hey! I LIKE Clem! I could do without the magical bear though. ;D
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#1: Faith or The Watcher
If you're familiar with the way IGN TV tends to pick our top lists, you probably saw this coming. Of course we want more Buffy. We want more Angel and we're willing to pay lots of scary men to drag Joss Whedon back to television. It's cold, dark and lonely here without him and frankly, it's just plain wrong. As much as we loved Serenity and believe that Whedon is a decent film director, he is such a master of serializes story telling, of ensemble casts, that he should have another series. It may be counter intuitive to say, but Joss Whedon is too big for movies.
There were rumors of a Faith series towards the end of Buffy's 7th season. Of course, it never materialized, and the world of Buffy was blown open when all of the initiates gained their abilities, flooding the world with Slayers and fundamentally changing the nature of the show. That doesn't mean that we don't want to see Eliza Dushku back in black leather dusting vamps. Throw Spike into the mix, human or vampire - we're not picky. Put another slayer on the television and the fans will come.
Another possibility is the actually-almost-existed Watcher. This was a series that Whedon talked about doing with Anthony Stewart Head as Giles. It would have been set in England and aired first on the BBC. Giles could be training the new Slayers, or even better - putting the Watcher's Council back together. And the ghosts of his past as "Ripper" could continue to come back and haunt him. Giles was one of the best characters created for the series, and Head one of its best actors. Alas, it's probably not to be. Whedon seems content to continue the Buffy-verse in comic book form while the television audience must enjoy shows that are Buffy-esque, but still far short of the real thing. Seriously Joss, you could make a show featuring Clem and that flying magical bear from the Punky Brewster cartoon and we'll watch it.
If you're familiar with the way IGN TV tends to pick our top lists, you probably saw this coming. Of course we want more Buffy. We want more Angel and we're willing to pay lots of scary men to drag Joss Whedon back to television. It's cold, dark and lonely here without him and frankly, it's just plain wrong. As much as we loved Serenity and believe that Whedon is a decent film director, he is such a master of serializes story telling, of ensemble casts, that he should have another series. It may be counter intuitive to say, but Joss Whedon is too big for movies.
There were rumors of a Faith series towards the end of Buffy's 7th season. Of course, it never materialized, and the world of Buffy was blown open when all of the initiates gained their abilities, flooding the world with Slayers and fundamentally changing the nature of the show. That doesn't mean that we don't want to see Eliza Dushku back in black leather dusting vamps. Throw Spike into the mix, human or vampire - we're not picky. Put another slayer on the television and the fans will come.
Another possibility is the actually-almost-existed Watcher. This was a series that Whedon talked about doing with Anthony Stewart Head as Giles. It would have been set in England and aired first on the BBC. Giles could be training the new Slayers, or even better - putting the Watcher's Council back together. And the ghosts of his past as "Ripper" could continue to come back and haunt him. Giles was one of the best characters created for the series, and Head one of its best actors. Alas, it's probably not to be. Whedon seems content to continue the Buffy-verse in comic book form while the television audience must enjoy shows that are Buffy-esque, but still far short of the real thing. Seriously Joss, you could make a show featuring Clem and that flying magical bear from the Punky Brewster cartoon and we'll watch it.
Hey! I LIKE Clem! I could do without the magical bear though. ;D
LINK