Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-25123326-20140708033021/@comment-12933494-20140712212927

Grahamburglar wrote: I wasn't going to actually add anything to this discussion but Paul, your lack of understanding of Buffy the Vampire Slayer just made me have to. This is a little off-topic, forgive me.

The series Buffy the Vampire Slayer is NOT A RETREAD of the movie. It is a series written as a sequel to the movie by the same person who wrote the movie. Show me Jeff Davis' involvement in the Teen Wolf movie -- or even the movie's sequel or even the cartoon -- and I will let you continue to use that analogy without complaint. But, such involvement does not exist. Teen Wolf is NOT comparable to Buffy in that sense.

Furthermore, Buffy did alter itself to the fandom's desires on more than one occasion. And often those things worked really, really well. Spike, for instance, was saved by the fandom. Twice he was slated to die and twice he didn't because fans liked him so much. (And technically a third time when they brought him to Angel, but I didn't think that worked as well, so let's just say twice, shall we? :P) Heck -- Season 6 itself was because the fans wanted it.

However, Joss also became very famous for altering his show to go against fandom desires, true, but he typically did it in a way that was so brilliant you couldn't be upset. After all, that's where the term "Jossed" came from. The Buffy show wasn't a sequel to the movie nor a retread of it. The movie is completely noncanon to the show. Buffy was a continuation to Joss Whedon's original script that was hardly used in the movie. His original screenplay was just set as a base for the movie, which Joss hated and dissapproved of.