Picspam: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Race!Swap Cast

So if you haven't heard by now, Warner Brothers is "rebooting" Buffy the Vampire Slayer into a new film. Most people are not pleased about this, though some are hopeful. This news got me to thinking about the ways in which the series really work and the ways in which it majorly fails. My two biggest complaints about the Buffyverse are the consistent wonkiness re: issues of sexual consent (see this post if you're interested) and the race!fail. Do the writers seriously expect us to believe that this California town is that full of white people? Yeah, right.

So I thought I'd take this opportunity to give us a look at what a non-whitewashed Buffy the Vampire Slayer would look like. This, my friends, is a race!swap casting.

A quick thanks to those of you on my flist who helped (especially angearia, eleusis_walks, ploratrix, and eilowyn, as well as anyone else I might have forgotten). Y'all are awesome.

And a warning: I think it's pretty safe to say that you will never see such a collection of pictures of gorgeous people assembled in one place. Your computer screen might actually melt. But don't blame me. I'm warning you! [This is another way of saying that this post is anything but dial-up friendly.]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
A Race!Swap Casting

( The Cast )

Picspam: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Race!Swap Cast

So if you haven't heard by now, Warner Brothers is "rebooting" Buffy the Vampire Slayer into a new film. Most people are not pleased about this, though some are hopeful. This news got me to thinking about the ways in which the series really work and the ways in which it majorly fails. My two biggest complaints about the Buffyverse are the consistent wonkiness re: issues of sexual consent (see this post if you're interested) and the race!fail. Do the writers seriously expect us to believe that this California town is that full of white people? Yeah, right.

So I thought I'd take this opportunity to give us a look at what a non-whitewashed Buffy the Vampire Slayer would look like. This, my friends, is a race!swap casting.

A quick thanks to those of you on my flist who helped (especially angearia, eleusis_walks, ploratrix, and eilowyn, as well as anyone else I might have forgotten). Y'all are awesome.

And a warning: I think it's pretty safe to say that you will never see such a collection of pictures of gorgeous people assembled in one place. Your computer screen might actually melt. But don't blame me. I'm warning you! [This is another way of saying that this post is anything but dial-up friendly.]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
A Race!Swap Casting

( The Cast )