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Post by Dark Avenger on Mar 28, 2020 7:16:10 GMT -5
With the coronavirus, I've thought about re-watching Buffy. Seeing what the Cafe is doing with their Charmed re-watches and CCDOW discussions? I've wondered if anyone would want to do one for Buffy.
I might take a crack at doing a Buffy Done My Way rewrite in press release format too. Having seen what the Buffy reboot comics have done. I've thought about a Buffy rewrite.
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Post by Trinity on Mar 28, 2020 8:26:26 GMT -5
I do love Buffy, and it has been a while since I watched it.
We all need a distraction from the current state of the world. I'd be down for a re-watch.
Are you planning to do a rewrite of Buffy, that sounds cool. So you'd go back to the start and show how you'd do things differently. I've seen these new comics, and they have done lots of interesting things with it, different.
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Post by Katie on Mar 28, 2020 9:34:58 GMT -5
That does sound like fun. If you guys want your own re-watch and rewrite, as we do at the Cafe, go for it. Of course, I'm tied up with the Charmed ones on the weekends, so I don't think I could even consider doing another one for another show.
But, I'd read what you guys do, and see the episode reviews and comment.
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Post by Tim on Mar 28, 2020 11:47:28 GMT -5
Go for it!
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Post by Jean on Mar 28, 2020 17:54:34 GMT -5
Go for it guys. We've had so much fun doing our Charmed re-watch at the Cafe. Which reminds me, time for another one tonight, so I'll be off busy with that soon.
Good luck with your rewrite of the series, Dark Avenger.
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Post by Tim on Mar 28, 2020 18:20:25 GMT -5
Can't wait to see what you come up with.
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Post by Trinity on Mar 28, 2020 21:44:25 GMT -5
Me too.  I'm down for a re-watch. Shall we start a thread and get the ball rolling. Many years ago, I did a live discussion on another board maybe 15 years ago, where we used their discord server (chat system) to talk about the episode as we all watched. And someone used to copy all the chat at the end to save. Is that what you did it appears Katie and Jean. Or do you guys use the forum to post and do it as you watch. I hope I'm following right. Dark Avenger, looking forward. A great distraction from the coronavirus. I've paid little attention to it in the news unless something major is reported. So far in my country, the death rate is so low, we only just got our first death today. |
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Post by Dark Avenger on Mar 28, 2020 22:08:12 GMT -5
Me too. I'm down for a re-watch. Shall we start a thread and get the ball rolling. Many years ago, I did a live discussion on another board maybe 15 years ago, where we used their discord server (chat system) to talk about the episode as we all watched. And someone used to copy all the chat at the end to save. Is that what you did it appears Katie and Jean. Or do you guys use the forum to post and do it as you watch. I hope I'm following right. Dark Avenger, looking forward. A great distraction from the coronavirus. I've paid little attention to it in the news unless something major is reported. So far in my country, the death rate is so low, we only just got our first death today. I think that is what they do. But they can explain it better than me.
It is a good thing to do, and why I want to work on this, something keep me busy, when we have no much shows on air, when all the new episodes run out.
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Post by Dark Avenger on Mar 28, 2020 22:08:34 GMT -5
Can't wait to see what you come up with. I look forward to sharing stufd with you guys. |
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Post by Dark Avenger on Mar 28, 2020 23:16:55 GMT -5
Dark Avenger's Notes: I started my rewrite. I've based it on the real first episode, but I added parts from how Buffy first became Slayer too. I've also introduced Buffy's sister Dawn right away as her sister. I also have done a bit more, so Willow will learn she is a witch because her aunt was one. I also have introduced Amy into the story here with more to do.
I haven't finished it yet. But I started it.
BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER - (TV-14, L, V). Air Date: October 7, 1996 Time Slot: 8:00 PM-9:00 PM EST on The WB Season 1 Episode 01: "Welcome to the Hellmouth (Part 1)"
SPECIAL TWO-HOUR SERIES PREMIERE — The series begins, with the title card saying Los Angeles, 1996 on Buffy's (Sarah Michelle Gellar) fiffthteenth birthday, Buffy has dreams of past Slayers fighting and battling vampires, including a slayer who died a month earlier. Buffy awakens freaked out by what she dreamed.
The next afternoon, Buffy is seen with her three friends leaving Hemery High School, as a mysterious man (David Boreanaz) watches out a window in a dark car and catches a glimpse of Buffy. Buffy and her friends are planning to attend the winter formal in a week. As she says goodbye to her friends, a man (Richard Riehle) approches her, telling her a tale about her destiny fighting vampires, he then introduces himself as a watcher named Merrick.
Later that night, Merrick then observes Buffy in a cemetery staking her first vampire rather clumsily. The mysterious man watches, concerned as Buffy plunges the stake into the vampire again, and this time hits her mark. An instant later the vampire bursts into dust. Buffy is caught by surprise, and she screams, surprised by what she just did. She just stares at the ashes on the grass in shock. Behind her Merrick steps up saying "You see your power?" Buffy isn't at all sure she wants to see, and he tells her, this is her destiny, and she can't fight it.
The mysterious man watches as Buffy goes home, where her father yells at her for being gone without telling them where she was going. Her mother (Kristine Sutherland) seems a bit more understanding. And her younger sister Dawn (Michelle Trachtenberg) just runs to her room scared. After watching the whole ordeal, the mysterious man returns to an apartment, and calls saying he has decided that he wants "to be somebody" and help Buffy.
Now in present day, with the title card saying, Sunnydale, Fall 1996, we see a man break into a window and sneaking into Sunnydale High at night, leading a girl (Julie Benz) by the hand. He takes her to the auditorium. They start to make out, until she becomes frightened, but he assures her that they're alone and are fine. He approaches her, but then she morphs into her vampire face and bites his neck.
Buffy was wondering through a place she didn't know, in same chamber in a dark underground area. Images jumped out at her, then faded again almost instantly, leaving only the vaguest of memories. Buffy saw candles flickering over a deep red pool of blood. Suddenly a demonic laughter echoed in the area. Faceless figures stalked her and then suddenly she saw a very old book with the words Vampyr engraved upon the cover. Without warning a shadow rose up behind her and evil. Whispering in her head telling her "I'll take you like a cancer, I'll get inside you and eat my way out".
Buffy eyes flew open, out of the dream, and it was morning. Her mother calls out for her to not be late on her first day at her new school, as she already has to drive her sister Dawn to school too.
Buffy is being shown around her new school by Principal Flutie. As he does so, he calls her by different names, none of which are her own. Buffy assures Flutie that there won't be any problems like at her old school and she is "Here to have fun. But I mean learning, fun with learning." Flutie tells Buffy not to worry, he thinks she will fit in just fine.
Buffy walks down the halls and bumps into a male student (Nicholas Brendon), spilling the contents of her handbag on the floor. He introduces himself as Xander Harris who helps Buffy repack. She leaves without her stake, which Xander pockets because he called out to her, but she had already walked away.
Later Xander walks into the high school newspaper room, known as The Sunnydale High Sentinel, where he meets up with Willow Rosenberg (Alyson Hannigan) and his cousin as Jesse McNally (Eric Balfour). We learn the editor of the school paper is Amy Madison (Elizabeth Anne Allen). Willow tells her friends, her strange aunt last night kept telling her weird stories about witches, and Willow doesn't believe her, and they all laugh saying that witches are not real.
In history class, Buffy is helped by popular girl Cordelia Chase (Charisma Carpenter), who afterwards does a test to see how cool she is, as Buffy had just moved to Sunnydale, California from Los Angeles. Later Cordelia humiliates an awkward Willow at the water fountain and also teases Amy who joins her telling her she has some exciting news to report for the paper.
Inside the library, Buffy enters needing a book, and meets Rupert Giles (Anthony Stewart Head) who places a book titled Vampyr in front of Buffy after recognising who she is. Buffy quickly leaves.
Buffy meets Willow, and sits with her to talk. At the same time, a dead body is found in the locker rooms by Cordelia's friend Harmony (Mercedes McNab). Amy investigates it, and sneaks inside and starts taking photos of it. Jesse and Xander soon join Buffy and Willow for lunch, and Xander returns the stake. Buffy claims it's standard self-defence in Los Angeles to cover. Cordelia appears and tells Buffy she won't get to meet Coach Foster because gym class was cancelled "due to the extreme dead guy" in Harmony's locker. Buffy asks whether there were marks on the body, freaking out Cordelia. Amy comes running with some big news, telling them to meet her in the newspaper room.
Buffy forces her way into the locker room, examines the body, and finds wounds of a vampire on the neck.
Later, Amy presents the photo she took in the locker room to Willow, Jesse and Xander in the school newspaper room. Amy informs them of strange things happening in town, and says she has been collecting lots of freaky stories. Xander doesn't believe such a thing is possible but Amy shows him her "Freaky Sunnydale wall" - a collection of articles about the strange goings-on in Sunnydale that nobody seems to notice. Amy also asks Willow if she believes her, especially what her aunt told her about witches may not be just an urban myth. And she even shows her part of her wall a case that might be about witches. Willow says maybe she is right.
Buffy returns to the library and confronts Giles, who informs her that he is her Watcher following the death of her old Watcher Merrick months ago. Buffy refuses to accept her calling as a Slayer since it had gotten her expelled from her previous school and cost her social life, and she has lost touch with the only person she told about being a slayer Pike.
MORE TO WRITE.......
- Dark Avenger
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Post by Trinity on Mar 28, 2020 23:18:56 GMT -5
Me too. I'm down for a re-watch. Shall we start a thread and get the ball rolling. Many years ago, I did a live discussion on another board maybe 15 years ago, where we used their discord server (chat system) to talk about the episode as we all watched. And someone used to copy all the chat at the end to save. Is that what you did it appears Katie and Jean. Or do you guys use the forum to post and do it as you watch. I hope I'm following right. Dark Avenger, looking forward. A great distraction from the coronavirus. I've paid little attention to it in the news unless something major is reported. So far in my country, the death rate is so low, we only just got our first death today. I think that is what they do. But they can explain it better than me.
It is a good thing to do, and why I want to work on this, something keep me busy, when we have no much shows on air, when all the new episodes run out.
That sounds like fun. We need something to watch when the new episodes of shows dry out. I'll love to be part of it. Maybe start a thread, and we can discuss episodes. |
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Post by Trinity on Mar 28, 2020 23:30:09 GMT -5
Dark Avenger's Notes: I started my rewrite. I've based it on the real first episode, but I added parts from how Buffy first became Slayer too. I've also introduced Buffy's sister Dawn right away as her sister. I also have done a bit more, so Willow will learn she is a witch because her aunt was one. I also have introduced Amy into the story here with more to do. I haven't finished it yet. But I started it. Sounds like fun. I'll have a read.
I see you have placed this in 1996, the show was originally a mid-season show. I see in your rewrite, you want this show to be 22 episodes for season 1. So you have introduced characters differently and earlier. I like that you added the origin backstory briefly here at the start, so we can see when she was called as the slayer. So Buffy got called on her 15th birthday. That's different, but we never knew exactly when she was called, so you can do whatever you want. I see Buffy's younger sister Dawn is here already. How young is she here?
I see Jesse is Xander's cousin here. Are you going to kill him off and make him a vampire, or is he going to be part of the Scooby Gang and replace Oz? Also Amy runs the school paper, and I see you dropping hints that Willow is a witch already, if her aunt is one, but Willow doesn't believe it yet. Same as the first episode these parts, but with it being Harmony's locker the body is found in, not that random friend of Cordelia who we never see again. I see Amy is investigating and taking photos. Feels like she is a Nancy Drew/Veronica Mars like character who will like to investigate everything. I gather she won't become a witch like she was in the show. I like this change.
This is a new addition. So she has a wall of all the strange stuff going on in Sunnydale, she feels like Chloe from Smallville here, and I see you're making her the Nancy Drew of Buffy basically with her investigating. So Willow's aunt is a witch, and Willow hasn't tapped into her powers yet. [/quote] I hope you write more. Don't stop. |
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Post by Dark Avenger on Mar 28, 2020 23:32:09 GMT -5
I think that is what they do. But they can explain it better than me.
It is a good thing to do, and why I want to work on this, something keep me busy, when we have no much shows on air, when all the new episodes run out.
That sounds like fun. We need something to watch when the new episodes of shows dry out. I'll love to be part of it. Maybe start a thread, and we can discuss episodes. We sure can, if others want to re-watch the episodes, we can talk about them in a thread.
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Post by Trinity on Mar 28, 2020 23:32:45 GMT -5
That sounds like fun. We need something to watch when the new episodes of shows dry out. I'll love to be part of it. Maybe start a thread, and we can discuss episodes. We sure can, if others want to re-watch the episodes, we can talk about them in a thread.
That would be fun. |
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Post by Dark Avenger on Mar 28, 2020 23:50:21 GMT -5
Yeah, I wanted to do it differently, so the first season was longer, and could do a bit more with the first season. Yes, I wanted to show the origin story here, but I might do more with it as a longer episode later, this is more like a tease. I also want to do more with Pike and have him return later, and in my head with the casting, I might use Luke Perry, but I'm not sure if he's too old to be seen playing a teenager at this point, unless of course, Pike was a senior, so he was older than Buffy.
Yes, I just went with it being on 15th bithday, why not. Yes, Dawn is here, I haven't decided, she might be about 12 here. I just didn't want to show her at Buffy's high school this soon.
Yeah, I was thinking of making him his non-identical twin brother, but just went with cousin. I think I might have him replace Oz, as that might overcrowd the scooby gang later.
Yes, Amy is the editor of the school paper. Yeah, Willow will be a witch much earlier, and I'm changing the backstory here.
Since Harmony was shown much more as Cordelia's friend, I made it her. That other friend Aua, never appeared again.
Yes, I was inspired by those shows with her character. I was going to create an original character, but just went with Amy, since she was Willow's friend and all. I figured, better to just use an existing character.
Yes, I did get inspired by that with her. She is like the Nancy Drew like character. Yes she is a witch, and Willow will learn about her powers later on.
I will write more when I can. |
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