August 7th, 2008Buffy Season 1.2 (and Animated?)
Last week, this unaired clip from Buffy the Animated Series appeared on YouTube.
The series, greenlit for Fox Kids in 2001, was meant to take place somewhere around the end of Season 1 in the Buffyverse, but when no suitable timeslot or network could be found for it, the whole project was shelved. The timing explains Willow’s continuing boy-crush on Xander in that clip, but something tells me that if this project had happened, Fox-Kids-Willow would never have come out at all.
Now that we have Season 8 in comic form, the slot for an animated/drawn Buffyverse in my brain is already filled (partially with shirtless, boxing one-eyed Xander), so this clip doesn’t excite me as much as it would have a few years ago.
I have my doubts that anything will come of this series, and, frankly, I don’t want to see Willow neutered in terms of sexuality or witchery! But if you want to join the movement to “support and hype Buffy the Animated Series and to have it possibly return at some point in the future”, here’s a Facebook group for you.
(Who am I kidding? I just joined too. Long live the Buffyverse!)
[Xander image via Shirtless Superheroes]
August 7th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
mmmmm xanderrrrr
August 7th, 2008 at 9:48 pm
Don’t you hate when you type a long comment and the computer eats it?
Mine amounted to: Voice acting weird. Comic book Fray good, yay!
August 11th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
it seems weird to me. nevermind the fact that Buffy’s voice does not sound like Buffy’s voice (damn SMG) - but I agree that it would probably be some watered down version of the TV show (unless maybe it wasn’t on fox kids on Saturday mornings, which it would be, I imagine?)…I don’t think I’ll join that facebook group even though I love all things Buffy.
(The library looks bigger than I remember it)