What the hell is your problem? It's one thing to disagree with somebody, it's another to get all high and mighty about it.
The point I was trying to make is that, in today's overly sensitive climate, Spike wouldn't be allowed to go insulting characters by calling them "poof" or "poofter" because it is seen as a derogatory term against gay people. LGBT has moved on since the days of Buffy. It would be no different than if he went around calling a transgender character a "tranny".
IF this show gets off the ground, they are going to want to market it to the widest audience possible to prove that it can be just as successful as the original. I don't think they're going to go for GOT level violence and sex, and they can't be seen to be endorsing a character that uses derogatory terms to insult people. If a character does insult a character by calling them a "poofter" then you can bet that character is going to be shown getting a comeuppance in order to show that behaviour shouldn't be tolerated.
I could ask you the same thing. I have been back on BB for only three days and every time I see you post something it is always about the same thing and you speak as if what you think of today's world is an undeniable truth. Well I am sorry, but I disagree quite a bit with you.
First of all, today's ''climate'' is not anymore sensitive than it used to be. I think that what you are looking for is that more people nowadays are aware of the need to be respectful toward other human beings, and by that I mean
all human beings. As I see it, that is far from a bad thing. However, for some people it is troublesome, and I do not think this thread is the best place to discuss that topic.
Second of all, as I said, you would be wrong in believing that about a remade Spike. Spike was always honest about what he thought, and he did not give a shit about what other people would think of him or his views (at least for the most part... *cough* Buffy *cough*). You seem stuck on words like ''poof'', as if there aren't dozens of characters on television right now who use homophobic, sexist, and racist slurs in all kind of contexts.
😛 It might not go along with your narrative, but it is a fact. And most people do not care about it, because everyone knows that people like them exist. Anyhow, as far as offensive terms go ''poof'' and ''poofter'' are quite weak. I bet most North American watchers did not even understand what that meant.
Finally, you do not know what their marketing plan will be at all. You are simply summoning your own fears and apprehensions of what they might do, given some of the trends followed by certain creators in the past years... and you make it seems as if there is no other way that they would build this new 'Buffy'. Now, I do agree that I doubt they will push for a GoT level of violence and sex, but that was not really what our argument was about--it was about the impossibility (or so you claimed) of certain characters, more specifically Spike, using derogatory terms in a possible remake. To be blunt, I do not see how the creators of a show would be seen as ''endorsing'' a character who, as you call it, would be using ''derogatory terms'' just because they built him/her. If that was the case, then quite a lot of showrunners would be regarded as homophobic, sexist, and racist assholes right now.
😀 As for such characters getting a comeuppance, well they tend to be the 'bad guys', so yea they would probably get their ass kicked at some point.
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