New or Re-do?

[frayadjacent]

Here's a doozy of a thought, for argument's sake let's say that there's a possibility of BTVS airing as a TV show again with everyone back on board after the end of the current Comic Season 8. Would you rather:

A) see the Season 8 comic series re-interepreted as a TV season

B) or just have the new TV season be a continuation of the comic story line (Season 9.)

Obviously there wouldn't be a comic while they concentrated on the new TV season and you can't have both options.

On a side note (which I apologize if it's been covered elsewhere) if the TV show is picked up somewhere down the line again would you rather see a whole new series picking off from Season 7 that disregards the comic Season 8 or one that faithfully follows the current comic's timeline etc.?

[Bluebird]

I would have season 8 TV show that disregards the comics. I love the comics but I see them as too different from the show to do a continuation or a TV version of the comics. What works in a comic might not necessarily work for a TV show.

[frayadjacent]

I myself would like a continutation of Season 8 that was loosely based/following it but adapted as they see fit for the good of the story. I agree with your points but I was going for more of an A or B option with your explanation following. I might've given too many options when I made the "side note."

[LorneyTunes]

I like it to be continued from season 7 onwards cause it will be hard to have dawn as meca dawn know??

[littlewilly]

THEY should scrap s8. A comic does not, and cannot, compare to the tv show

[Superstar]

Here's a doozy of a thought, for argument's sake let's say that there's a possibility of BTVS airing as a TV show again with everyone back on board after the end of the current Comic Season 8.
Ok, for argument's sake.

Option A is probably not likely since it would take away too much from a "what's gonna happen next?" anticipation.
Option B is also probably not likely since it presumes the TV audience would have all purchased the comics.
Option C which is pretty much your side note and according to the stipulation above the only real option - comic decanonization.

[frayadjacent]

I wasn't so much going for "you have to know all the comic stuff" continuation of Season 8, I was just thinking the starting off point would just be further down. Like how each season sometimes jumped a whole Summer, or how the older non-Joss BTVS comics happened between episodes and Seasons without affecting the show.

For example if all the Slayers besides Buffy were taken away at Season 8's end then the show would pick up with Buffy being the only Slayer left, and it would just be as if we're picking up at the end of Season 7 but alot more stuff has happened in-between. Basically just more catch-up at the start of the season is needed.

[InsaneMystic]

If it ever were to happen (unfortunately, I, like most, bet heavily against it...), I think they'd have little alternative to set it significantly further into the future past S7 than one year. You definitely couldn't make the actors believably look anymore like there's only been one summer in between.

There's even a rather neat way of doing it, I think... the comics progressing so slowly compared to a TV show, they'd easily be able to chalk up any discrepancies to "that was ages ago", and giving throwaway lines of "this-and-that happened in between", but still keeping S8 as canon. They could even do it like, say, "Buffy II" dealing with "Season 15-20", and then after that, the comics picking up again and filling "the lost years" Season 9-14. The problem would of course be that they couldn't do overly dramatic changes in that interim years comics for continutiy reasons - but I guess we'd happily buy into it anyway. :wink:

[LittleMissLikesToFight]

i just figure doing season 8 as a tv show would require too much of a budget.... and if it just picked up as season 9, well, it would be hard for newcomers or casual fans to follow. I think continuing from 7 would be the best way to do it, and rewriting 8 to be more like the t.v. show and less the comic.

[caitaintdead]

As much as I love the idea of Buffy coming back to television, I have to say that I don't even think this is worth discussing, because it just won't happen. Buffy just aint coming back! It would be nice to see a movie though and who knows what could happen there? The series ended for a reason and no one is just going to go back to it, but if for some weird reason it did happen the problem of the comics would be just to huge to overcome.
They couldn't just 'forget about season 8' because it would throw the entire concept of cannon into disarray!
I couldn't see them just continuing on from season 8, because I just can't see it for many reasons. Unless they did a really cool short animated beginning at the start of the first episode to show what they've been doing. Everyone knows that it's been in comic form so why not show it that way?
Dreaming about Buffy coming back to TV really has become the Buffy-Boards version of dreaming about winning lottery hasn't it?!?!

[Crazy Flakes]

I think a mod might want to put a spoiler warning on this thread.

Anyway, I'd much rather have them start over. For the comic, they had to make it a lot more fantastic and superheroic in order to make it interesting; that's why they have the big flying witch fights (which are, admittedly, pretty freakin' cool), giant Dawn, mecha giant Dawn, huge Slayer armies, etc. Let's face it; they made a comic book with issues/episodes that were all talking, they would be pretty boring, since without actors, they're really just words. If they made a season 8 on TV, on the other hand, the characters wouldn't have to be in a constant state of flux like they are in the comics to make the show interesting. Besides, the budget would be too much of an issue to put the season 8 comics in a TV show or movie.

[bufsum]

It is nice to take a walk down pretend lane for a minute, though... ah... loving the pretend notion that the stars could align for this to happen.

... I like my delusion.

[~angelic slayer~]

Hmmmm, an interesting question. Although I'm usually big on keeping things chronological, I'd definitely re-do the storyline.

Partly because we would all know what happens in Season 8 from the comics, and partly because I'd really like to see another take on "how things went". I also agree on what some users said about adaptability: a lot of things from comic books may not be totally applicable to put on a television show (or vice-versa). However on the flip side, it would seem wierd to just scrap an entire "Official" season 8.

I think maybe doing a "previously, on Buffy the Vampire Slayer...." thing to sum up season 8 comics would be good (maybe have the actors film key scenes for the recap), and then move on to a BTVS season 9 on TV. That's my take, anyway :)

[bufsum]

However (living in the dream that this was possible) it would be confusing for fans whom have not read the comic books to come back to a "ninth" season, knowing that the seventh was the last on screen.

I think that they would have to call another season on television the Eight season.