Banish the Boring

Well, here's some good news. The Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot is dead. Obviously I love the Buffyverse considering how I've been talking about Angel and Buffy here lately. When I heard that series creator Joss Whedon was to be shut out of the reboot, that it would instead be directed by Chloe Zhao, I figured it would be dull, soulless, studio drivel. Well, it turns out the filmed pilot was just dull, soulless drivel that the studio wanted no part of. Good for them.

The more things change the more they stay the same. Twenty years ago, talentless directors like Brett Ratner or Paul Haggis mysteriously kept getting work in Hollywood despite plainly being inept. Now they're both cancelled and Hollywood has retrained their policy to prop up a different group of undeserving rich people. Or maybe Chloe Zhao's used up all of her chances. Maybe we can hope that the Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy directed Star Wars movie won't get off the ground. Or are we to really believe that the one episode of Ms. Marvel she directed really demonstrated that she should be directing a Star Wars movie?

There has been some interesting work on Disney Star Wars and Marvel shows, work done by women and ethnic minorities. Why not work more with Steph Green who directed good action sequences in the second episode of Book of Boba Fett? I also think Deborah Chow deserves a second chance. I think all the problems with the Obi-Wan Kenobi series were down to actor and studio meddling.

Anyway. I'm just happy, at least for now, Buffy's tomb remains undesecrated.

Sonnet 1984

Another voice diverts the normal band.
But who are they when swapping singing birds?
Another name denotes another brand.
No reason now to hum with perfect words.
So people gathered late to hear the songs.
The million dollar tickets sold to gas.
Who are the spenders turning up in throngs?
A jiggling, laughing orange pumpkin mass.
Collaborations melt to single grots.
The alloy brings a crew of ghostly gents.
The naked babes interpret inky blots.
And they must pay their catastrophic rents.
So this was how the show continued on.
Computer art created shadow spawn.