Buffy fans are divided over reboot announcement

TV Guide

Some Buffy the Vampire Slayer fans were thrilled by the news that Joss Whedon is teaming with Monica Owusu-Breen to create a black female reboot of the iconic teen series. Others said that it's not possible to successfully succeed Sarah Michelle Gellar. As Angelica Jade says, Buffy holds up because of Gellar. "I’m not interested in seeing a black slayer take on the role of Buffy or even seeing gender and race bent reboots. It’s boring and insulting. We deserve our own mythology," says Jade, who is black, adding: "I would totally be down with a show about a Slayer in the past or a new show in the same universe after the events of the series. This is lazy and reductive."