Re: 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer' Reboot Starring Sarah Michelle Gellar Nears Hulu Pilot Order With Chloe Zhao Directing

BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

Feb 5, 2025 at 1:32:04 PM PST, Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com>:

BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

Is this going to be a geriatric Buffy trying to run around and do all the
gymnastics and whatnot that she used to as a teenager, or is she going to be
kind of a Watcher type, mentoring a new young Slayer?

Either way, Sarah Michelle Gellar is still appealing and she still has
that little girl voice. In the latest Dexter tv series, she looks good.
I hope Dexter doesn't find a reason to murder her.

I agree Gellar looks good for her age and seems to have avoided the Hollywood
trap of turning herself into a version of the Joker with plastic surgery but I
don't like her character on DEXTER. She seems out of place; she doesn't gel
with the show, is the best way I can describe it. Christina Milian, on the
other hand, is fantastic casting as a young LaGuerta. She not only looks the
part, but she obviously studied the original show and has recreated the
character perfectly.

I agree. It's Lauren Velez de-aged. Also, I really like Molly Brown as
teenage Deb, but it's a somewhat different character.

I also never recall thinking when I watched the original show how absurd it is
that the Miami-Dade Forensics Department is basically just a large closet off
the side of the homicide detective's bullpen. A major city like Miami? They'd
have their own building. How has Horatio Caine not thrown a fit over this?

In olden days when film was a thing, I worked for a retail photography
store that was also a supplier to big customers. We had the police
department. Intelligence (the undercover photographers) were at the
well-known former police precinct on Maxwell Street (now a police
station again for University of Illinois at Chicago), and the
crime-scene photographers were at the police headquarters complex, three
adjacent buildings connected at upper levels whose floors didn't match.
The place was a joke, 'cuz there was also a courthouse (for felony
arraignments but not trials) and a police precinct. Cops, prisoners,
lawyers, judges, and visitors all shared the same elevators.

There were police forensics sharing buildings with detectives at the
time. In the current system, in which detectives were removed from
police stations and placed into new Area police stations (that also had
a local police precinct and an arraignment courtroom), there are
certainly police forensics in those buildings shared with detectives.

The one thing I never bought about the original Dexter was the guy who
stuck his hands in the blood brought donuts for everyone. That was
unappetising.